Daughter of William Capener and Sarah Verrinder.

Married Ephraim Knowlton Hanks, 27 Mar 1856, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

Children - George Augustus Hanks; Alice Maria Hanks; William Albert Capener Hanks; David Capener Hanks; Sarah Elizabeth Hanks; Ephraim Knowlton Hanks; Louisa Rebecca Hanks.

Married Joseph Edward Taylor, 9 Jul 1875.

Children - Margaret Wicks Taylor; Jane Ann Taylor.

Married Thomas Huskinson Giles, 12 Nov 1890, Logan, Cache, Utah.

History - Jane's parents came to America in 1834. Her father came to America in 1834. He liked it so well he sent for her and the three children. They landed at Poughkeepsie County, New York. Her parents later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Jane was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848.

Jane's father was ordained an Elder in the Kirtland Temple on 24 January 1844. They came to Utah in 1852 in the Isaac Bullock Company, landing in Salt Lake Valley the 2nd of October 1852. Jane was rebaptized in City Creek by Isaac Decker some time in November 1852. William and George, Jane's brothers refused to join the Church and come to Utah so they remained in Cleveland where William was a physician. Jane lived in Salt Lake City with her parents and attended school there until March 27, 1856, when she was married in plural marriage to Ephraim Knowlton Hanks, Brigham Young performing the ceremony.

They went south with the Saints in the general move south in the year 1858, where they camped at Spring Creek, south of Provo, Utah, and returned the same year in August and went to live between the Little and Big Mountains which Mr. Hanks named Mountain Dell. She lived there until the year 1863, then moved to Provo Valley.

They first landed at Midway, then called Snake Creek. From there they moved to the McAffee ranch then called the Bill Wall ranch. When there was Indian trouble and they moved back to Salt Lake City from the McAfee ranch, stayed there until the next spring then they moved to Thayne's Canyon, Park City District.

Jane was very unhappy as her husband Eph was not doing well. She decided to leave that place so far from anybody, where there was no church to go to, to help keep up one's spirit. She picked up and left and went to Heber City after six years.

Ephraim took his third wife, Thisbe Read, and Thisbe's children south to Wayne County where Eph died 9 June 1896. President Brigham Young gave Jane a church divorce from Ephraim Hanks.

Jane lived in Heber City four years. There is where she commenced laboring in the Lord's vineyard. She was first was a teacher in the Sunday School, taught there for two years and also furnished the bread for the sacrament for one year and helped to comfort the sick and afflicted and helped to prepare the dead for burial.

She then married Joseph Edward Taylor, the 9 of July 1876, again in plural marriage. His first wife was her older sister, Louise Rebecca. She gave her consent.

They left for Charleston, Utah, where Mr. Taylor bought a thirty acre ranch and built me a small home. She did not want to raise her family in the city. Jane had a family of seven children, William Albert, Ephraim K., George Augustus, David Capener, Alice and Elizabeth and Louise Rebecca, children of Ephraim Hanks.

She was very active in church work while she lived in Charleston where her two daughters were born, Jane Ann and Margaret Wicks. Her first call was first counselor in Relief Society, Melissa Murdock being the President. She worked in that capacity until Sister Eliza R. Snow came to visit the Charleston Ward and chose her for local President of the Primary Association of the Charleston Ward. She worked in that organization for a number of years.

She eventually found conditions unsatisfactory and left Charleston and moved back to Heber City. She was later divorced from Mr. Taylor and her father built a very nice home for her. He did all the carpenter work. Mr. Taylor was generous in providing for her and her family.

On 12 Nov 1890, she married Thomas H. Giles. Mr. Giles died in June, 1903. Shortly after she married Brother Giles she was set apart as Stake President of the Primary of Wasatch Stake of Zion.

She worked a number of years in that capacity and her health became poor, being afflicted with asthma, and she was advised to move to a lower altitude so she bought a home in Provo, and lived there until 1919, when her health forced her to seek a warmer climate.

Two of her children were living in San Diego, California, so she left Provo and went to San Diego, the land of sunshine and flowers.

She wanted her last resting place to be in the city of the dead at Heber City, Utah, where lies those who have passed on before her and where many of the associates of her younger days.

Jane did not have her wishes carried out. She was buried in the mausoleum at San Diego. Her children, George and Louise are buried just outside in the cemetery.