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Ellen <I>Barnes</I> Brian

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Ellen Barnes Brian

Birth
Lancashire, England
Death
23 Sep 1925 (aged 78)
Loa, Wayne County, Utah, USA
Burial
Fremont, Wayne County, Utah, USA
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Pioneer Woman of 1860 Who Walked Across Plains, Laid at Rest
  LOA, Oct. 2 – (Special.) – Funeral services were held in the Wayne stake tabernacle last Monday for Mrs. Ellen Barnes Brian, 78, with Bishop Lorenzo J. Taylor presiding.
  Music was by the tabernacle choir with a duet by Viola T. Rees and Loa Johansen and by Dalton Okerlund and J. W. Ivie. The invocation was by Michael Hansen and benediction by George W. Okerlund. The speakers were William H. Morrell, Jennie Taylor, Prest. George T. Eckersley and Silas E. Tanner. The grave in Fremont cemetery was dedicated by D. H. Allred.
  Mrs. Brian was born at Ashington, Lancastershire, England, Feb. 6, 1847. She crossed the plains in an ox-team company in the summer of 1860, walking most of the way.
  She was married to Daniel G. Brian in Salt Lake in 1864, moving to Fremont, Piute county in 1879. Eight of her 13 children survive: Mrs. Minnie R. Morrell, Byron, Wyo.; Mrs. Annie S. Taylor, Fremont; Don C. Brian, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Alice Chaffin, Greenriver, Utah; Mrs. Matilda B. Babbitt, Worland, Wyo.; Mrs. Lula B. Coombs, Lark; Daniel W. Brian and Mrs. Lila B. Turner, Loa.
Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | October 5, 1925
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Daughter of Sophia Rothwell and Lawrence Barnes

Sisters:
Matilda Rothwell Swindlehurst 1830-1875
Elizabeth Barnes Stallings 1841-1906
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Ellen and Daniel each filed a homestead declaration, side by side, in Fremont, Piute (now Wayne) County, Utah. They were required to build a home and live on it for five years. They built one home on the dividing line - the bedrooms were on one homestead and the remainder of the house on the other.
Pioneer Woman of 1860 Who Walked Across Plains, Laid at Rest
  LOA, Oct. 2 – (Special.) – Funeral services were held in the Wayne stake tabernacle last Monday for Mrs. Ellen Barnes Brian, 78, with Bishop Lorenzo J. Taylor presiding.
  Music was by the tabernacle choir with a duet by Viola T. Rees and Loa Johansen and by Dalton Okerlund and J. W. Ivie. The invocation was by Michael Hansen and benediction by George W. Okerlund. The speakers were William H. Morrell, Jennie Taylor, Prest. George T. Eckersley and Silas E. Tanner. The grave in Fremont cemetery was dedicated by D. H. Allred.
  Mrs. Brian was born at Ashington, Lancastershire, England, Feb. 6, 1847. She crossed the plains in an ox-team company in the summer of 1860, walking most of the way.
  She was married to Daniel G. Brian in Salt Lake in 1864, moving to Fremont, Piute county in 1879. Eight of her 13 children survive: Mrs. Minnie R. Morrell, Byron, Wyo.; Mrs. Annie S. Taylor, Fremont; Don C. Brian, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Alice Chaffin, Greenriver, Utah; Mrs. Matilda B. Babbitt, Worland, Wyo.; Mrs. Lula B. Coombs, Lark; Daniel W. Brian and Mrs. Lila B. Turner, Loa.
Deseret News | Salt Lake City, Utah | October 5, 1925
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Daughter of Sophia Rothwell and Lawrence Barnes

Sisters:
Matilda Rothwell Swindlehurst 1830-1875
Elizabeth Barnes Stallings 1841-1906
_____________________
Ellen and Daniel each filed a homestead declaration, side by side, in Fremont, Piute (now Wayne) County, Utah. They were required to build a home and live on it for five years. They built one home on the dividing line - the bedrooms were on one homestead and the remainder of the house on the other.

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