HENRY TINGEY
Written by Sylvia C. Tingey Grandfather Henry Tingey Sr. was born in England in 1819. He and his father and brother were wholesale gardeners and raised seeds to sell to others. While they were not wealthy, they were of the well-to-do working class. When Henry was twenty years old he married Ann Young. She became the mother of ten children. Thomas and Sarah Ann, the two oldest living children came to America with them from England. Grandfather Henry Tingey had a testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ when he first heard it from the missionaries in England. His father tried to dissuade him from joining the Church by promising him a large sum of money and to set him up in a business of his own if he would forget about Mormonism. This Henry could not do because of his strong testimony of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Henry and his wife were baptized in 1849. When Henry was confirmed by Thomas Smith, he was promised that he would be in Zion that same year. This prophecy came true as they landed in the ship Zetland, in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1849. They went to St. Louis where they lived for three years before they were prepared to travel to Salt Lake City. He was the captain of the first ten wagons of the Moses Clawsons Company when they came across the plains. They left St. Louis in May and reached Salt Lake Valley 7 September of 1853. After living in Salt Lake City for about three years he settled in Bountiful where he engaged in gardening again with his oldest son, Thomas. In 1862 his wife, Ann, died leaving him with five children. In June of the same year he married Maria Page who had just arrived from England with her parents as converts to the Church. She was a real mother to these children and had eleven of her own. About eight years later through the advice of the Church leaders he married two more women in polygamy, Hannah Spencer and Sarah Miles, both of Centerville. Hannah had nine children and Sarah had four. For having more wives he spent eight months in the penitentiary and paid a fine of $200. Henry is the father of thirty-one children. He was a member of the home guard at the time of the coming of Johnson's Army and the Utah War. About 1875 he was called to go to Brigham City to run the Church's Co-op Farm. During this time he was sent to Washaki to lay out farms for the Indians and to teach them to be industrious and self-supporting. This was a direct fulfillment of Patriarch Smith of the Church when Henry first came from England, saying that Henry would preach the Gospel to the Lamanites. Two years later in 1877 Henry was appointed and set apart by Brigham Young as Bishop of the Brigham City First Ward when Brigham City was divided into four wards. This calling he held for almost twenty years, until his death on February 14, 1896, at the age of 77.

ANN YOUNG TINGEY Written by Sylvia C. Tingey Ann Young Tingey was born 17 February 1821. She and Henry were baptized 11 January 1849 by Thomas Smith at Thomcoat Conference. Ann was confirmed by Henry Tingey. Henry Tingey was born 18 November 1819. He and Ann were married 12 May 1839. They sailed on the ship SS Zetland 10 Nov 1849 from Liverpool, England with 250 saints, under the direction of S.H. Hawkins. The ship arrived at New Orleans on Christmas Eve 1849. They arrived in Utah 7 September 1853. Ann died 14 January 1862 at the age of almost 41 years. She had been married 23 years, more than half of which had been spent in rugged, early day pioneering both on sea and land. She knew what it meant to leave family and friends, and home and country for her religion. She knew the deep sorrow of laying a child in the grave and continuing the journey to Zion. She buried four children, had three stillborns, and had five children who grew to adulthood. She supported her husband in his Church activities, regardless of what this meant to her in the way of extra home duties. Ann was noted for her beautiful handiwork. She taught her children industry and thrift and love for one's fellowmen, qualities which remained with them and were in turn taught to their children to stand as a living monument to the sterling character of Ann Young Tingey. Sarah Ann, the second child of Henry and Ann, married the year of her mother's death and Thomas, the oldest child, married the following year, 1863, and took up permanent residence in the small hamlet of Centerville. The next living child, Emma Jane, married early and lived in Bountiful near her sister, Sarah Ann.
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Henry Tingey
My great grandfather Henry Tingey, was born November 18, 1819, in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. He was the son of James Tingey and Elizabeth Boniss. James and Elizabeth, and family later moved from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, and moved to Lower Caldecut near the 46th milestone from London in the perish of Northhill. The family of father and mother and two boys and four sisters were in the business of raising wholesale vegetable and garden seeds and were very successful. In 1849, missionaries from the Church of Hesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) told their gospel message to Henry and his wife Ann Young, (daughter fo James and Lucy Young). Henry and Ann joing the Latter-Day Saint church and migrated to America in 1849. They spent three years in St. Louis, Missouri and then traveled by oxen and wagon train to Salt Lake City, Utah, arriving in September 1853. Henry became a very devote follower of the Mormon Church. He settled in Sessions settlement (now Bountiful Utah) and later moved to Brigham City Utah, where he was in the garden and fruit business. He was named Bishoop of the First Ward in Brigham in 1877, and was set apart by Brigham Youn, who was the president of the LDS church at that time. Henry Tingey was given a blessing that his family would be numerous. This blessing was fulfilled as Henry lived during the time of polygamy and he married four wives and fathered 31 children. Henry Tingey passed away at the age of 77, on February 14, 1896, in Brigham City, Utah. He is essentially, the father of the well known Tingey families in Davis and BoxElder Counties in Utah. Henry Tingey was truely regarded as a noble man and respected citizen in Brigham City, Utah. Biggleswade, England can be proud that such a good man was born in their city. It is astonishhment, that such a young man as Henry Tingey, could come from humble circumstances in England in 1849, and accomplish what he did as a pioneed in the American West.
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children of Henry & Ann Young Tingey
son: Thomas Tingey (1844-1912)
dau: Mary Elizabeth Tingey (1856-1869)

children of Henry & Mariah Page Tingey
dau: Ellen Maria Anderson (1866-1917)
son: James Hyrum Tingey (1868-1928)
son: Orson Lorenzo Tingey (1876-1963)
son: Alonzo Tingey (1878-1880)
dau: Cora Bell Tingey Anderson (1880-1957)
son: Joseph Alma Tingey (1882-1917)

children of Henry & Hannah Spencer Tingey
son: John Ephraim Tingey (1873-1956)
son: Walter Leslie Tingey (1877-1820)
son: Parley Nephi Tingey (1887-1957)

children of Henry Tingey & Sarah Miles Naylor
dau: Leah Jane Tingey Buckland (1872-1935)
son: Josiah Henry "Joseph" Tingey (1874-1944)