Born at Llanvair, Discoed, Monmouth, England
Daughter of Thomas Stephens and Sarah Reese
Married John Rowe Marks, 1 December 1835, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales
Children - Stephen Henry Rowe Marks; Mary Jane Marks; Elizabeth Alice Marks; Grace May Marks; John Rowe Marks; William J. Marks; Robert N. Marks
Hannah converted to the Latter-day Saint faith in 1851. Immigrated to Utah in 1866. Three wearisome months were spent on the sailing vessel from Liverpool to New York City. From thence their journey continued by steamboat to Chicago; from Chicago overland to St. Louis by railway; again by steamboat up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs by ox team, the entire trip consuming a period of eight long, toilsome months, arriving in Salt Lake Valley Oct. 31 1866. Generous, kind, affectionate, hard worker and loved as a mother by all acquaintances, it is said of Sister Marks, by one who properly knew her, that an unkind word never was known to have left her lips. Her endearing life closed at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth A. M. Smith.
Transcribed from The Deseret News - March 8, 1895, page 5
OBITUARY NOTES.
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HANNAH STEVENS MARKS.
Hannah Stevens Marks, whose death occurred in Salt Lake City February 23rd, was born in Landvair, Monmouthshire, England, on the 20th day of February, 1812. She was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1851, at Newport, Monmouthshire; was well known and beloved by hundreds of the Elders who labored in that vicinity from 1851 to the time of her departure of Utah in the year 1866, with her noble companion, the late John R. Marks (whose death occurred some five years and four months previous to Mother Marks') for their universal kindness to them; Brother and Sister Marks having provided a house for the Elders during that period. Sister Marks was a woman of noble and generous impulse, ever ready to assist in sickness or distress, and hundreds have cause to honor her memory. In crossing the Plains she came very near losing her life through over-anxiety and fatigue in caring for her family and nursing the sick in camp, but she bore all her suffering with out a complaining word, arriving in the valley on October 8th, 1866, and with joy and rejoicing was reunited with her husband, who had preceded her one year and prepared a home to receive his family in the Fourteenth ward of this city, where they lived the greater part of the time of their residence in Utah. In the year 1875 Brother and Sister Marks visited their native land, spending eleven months very pleasantly with their three sons and numerous relatives, and procuring geneological matter for Temple work, which in part they afterwards attended to. Sister Marks acted for many years as Relief society teacher in the Eighth ward of this city.
It was a sight long to be remembered to witness the large number of aged sisters who followed the remains of Mother Marks (from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. G. M. Smith where Brother and Sister Marks spent the latter part of their lives, surrounded by every comfort that kind hands and generous hearts could bestow) to the Fourteenth ward assembly rooms, where the services over the remains were held. The following speakers addressed the large assembled congregation of friends: Bishop George H. Taylor, whose ward Brother and Sister Marks had been identified with the greater part of their residence in Utah, eulogized Sister Marks for her integrity to the truth and her noble and generous disposition, often in his remarks referring to her husband, saying in all the years he had known them (over twenty-eight) he had never seen or heard an unkind act or word and could truthfully say of the departed that they were true, honest, and faithful Latter-day Saints. John McDonald Jr. and Jesse W. Fox Jr. spoke of their visits to Sister Marks, and bore their testimony to her excellent character and how they had learned to love and honor her. The closing remarks were made by Elder George G. Bywater, whose long acquaintance with the family enabled him to speak of the many noble traits of character exhibited by Brother and Sister Marks, as was witnessed by him in this and their native land. Speaking of their generosity to the Elders and the kindly reception he and other Elders received at their hands while he was laboring as a missionary in England some thirty-three years ago, he had never, he said, met two whose dispositions were so even and uniform; and he could endorse all that had been said of their excellent character and faithfulness.
Sister Marks was the mother of seven children, six of whom survive her; forty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Six of her grandchildren acted as pallbearers at her request. She lived as she died, in full faith of the Gospel and in hope of a glorious resurrection. -
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Daughter of Thomas Stephens and Sarah Reese
Married John Rowe Marks, 1 December 1835, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales
Children - Stephen Henry Rowe Marks; Mary Jane Marks; Elizabeth Alice Marks; Grace May Marks; John Rowe Marks; William J. Marks; Robert N. Marks
Hannah converted to the Latter-day Saint faith in 1851. Immigrated to Utah in 1866. Three wearisome months were spent on the sailing vessel from Liverpool to New York City. From thence their journey continued by steamboat to Chicago; from Chicago overland to St. Louis by railway; again by steamboat up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs by ox team, the entire trip consuming a period of eight long, toilsome months, arriving in Salt Lake Valley Oct. 31 1866. Generous, kind, affectionate, hard worker and loved as a mother by all acquaintances, it is said of Sister Marks, by one who properly knew her, that an unkind word never was known to have left her lips. Her endearing life closed at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth A. M. Smith.
Transcribed from The Deseret News - March 8, 1895, page 5
OBITUARY NOTES.
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HANNAH STEVENS MARKS.
Hannah Stevens Marks, whose death occurred in Salt Lake City February 23rd, was born in Landvair, Monmouthshire, England, on the 20th day of February, 1812. She was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1851, at Newport, Monmouthshire; was well known and beloved by hundreds of the Elders who labored in that vicinity from 1851 to the time of her departure of Utah in the year 1866, with her noble companion, the late John R. Marks (whose death occurred some five years and four months previous to Mother Marks') for their universal kindness to them; Brother and Sister Marks having provided a house for the Elders during that period. Sister Marks was a woman of noble and generous impulse, ever ready to assist in sickness or distress, and hundreds have cause to honor her memory. In crossing the Plains she came very near losing her life through over-anxiety and fatigue in caring for her family and nursing the sick in camp, but she bore all her suffering with out a complaining word, arriving in the valley on October 8th, 1866, and with joy and rejoicing was reunited with her husband, who had preceded her one year and prepared a home to receive his family in the Fourteenth ward of this city, where they lived the greater part of the time of their residence in Utah. In the year 1875 Brother and Sister Marks visited their native land, spending eleven months very pleasantly with their three sons and numerous relatives, and procuring geneological matter for Temple work, which in part they afterwards attended to. Sister Marks acted for many years as Relief society teacher in the Eighth ward of this city.
It was a sight long to be remembered to witness the large number of aged sisters who followed the remains of Mother Marks (from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. G. M. Smith where Brother and Sister Marks spent the latter part of their lives, surrounded by every comfort that kind hands and generous hearts could bestow) to the Fourteenth ward assembly rooms, where the services over the remains were held. The following speakers addressed the large assembled congregation of friends: Bishop George H. Taylor, whose ward Brother and Sister Marks had been identified with the greater part of their residence in Utah, eulogized Sister Marks for her integrity to the truth and her noble and generous disposition, often in his remarks referring to her husband, saying in all the years he had known them (over twenty-eight) he had never seen or heard an unkind act or word and could truthfully say of the departed that they were true, honest, and faithful Latter-day Saints. John McDonald Jr. and Jesse W. Fox Jr. spoke of their visits to Sister Marks, and bore their testimony to her excellent character and how they had learned to love and honor her. The closing remarks were made by Elder George G. Bywater, whose long acquaintance with the family enabled him to speak of the many noble traits of character exhibited by Brother and Sister Marks, as was witnessed by him in this and their native land. Speaking of their generosity to the Elders and the kindly reception he and other Elders received at their hands while he was laboring as a missionary in England some thirty-three years ago, he had never, he said, met two whose dispositions were so even and uniform; and he could endorse all that had been said of their excellent character and faithfulness.
Sister Marks was the mother of seven children, six of whom survive her; forty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Six of her grandchildren acted as pallbearers at her request. She lived as she died, in full faith of the Gospel and in hope of a glorious resurrection. -
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Born at Llanvair, Discoed, Monmouth, England
Daughter of Thomas Stephens and Sarah Reese
Married John Rowe Marks, 1 December 1835, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales
Children - Stephen Henry Rowe Marks; Mary Jane Marks; Elizabeth Alice Marks; Grace May Marks; John Rowe Marks; William J. Marks; Robert N. Marks
Hannah converted to the Latter-day Saint faith in 1851. Immigrated to Utah in 1866. Three wearisome months were spent on the sailing vessel from Liverpool to New York City. From thence their journey continued by steamboat to Chicago; from Chicago overland to St. Louis by railway; again by steamboat up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs by ox team, the entire trip consuming a period of eight long, toilsome months, arriving in Salt Lake Valley Oct. 31 1866. Generous, kind, affectionate, hard worker and loved as a mother by all acquaintances, it is said of Sister Marks, by one who properly knew her, that an unkind word never was known to have left her lips. Her endearing life closed at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth A. M. Smith.
Transcribed from The Deseret News - March 8, 1895, page 5
OBITUARY NOTES.
------------------------
HANNAH STEVENS MARKS.
Hannah Stevens Marks, whose death occurred in Salt Lake City February 23rd, was born in Landvair, Monmouthshire, England, on the 20th day of February, 1812. She was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1851, at Newport, Monmouthshire; was well known and beloved by hundreds of the Elders who labored in that vicinity from 1851 to the time of her departure of Utah in the year 1866, with her noble companion, the late John R. Marks (whose death occurred some five years and four months previous to Mother Marks') for their universal kindness to them; Brother and Sister Marks having provided a house for the Elders during that period. Sister Marks was a woman of noble and generous impulse, ever ready to assist in sickness or distress, and hundreds have cause to honor her memory. In crossing the Plains she came very near losing her life through over-anxiety and fatigue in caring for her family and nursing the sick in camp, but she bore all her suffering with out a complaining word, arriving in the valley on October 8th, 1866, and with joy and rejoicing was reunited with her husband, who had preceded her one year and prepared a home to receive his family in the Fourteenth ward of this city, where they lived the greater part of the time of their residence in Utah. In the year 1875 Brother and Sister Marks visited their native land, spending eleven months very pleasantly with their three sons and numerous relatives, and procuring geneological matter for Temple work, which in part they afterwards attended to. Sister Marks acted for many years as Relief society teacher in the Eighth ward of this city.
It was a sight long to be remembered to witness the large number of aged sisters who followed the remains of Mother Marks (from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. G. M. Smith where Brother and Sister Marks spent the latter part of their lives, surrounded by every comfort that kind hands and generous hearts could bestow) to the Fourteenth ward assembly rooms, where the services over the remains were held. The following speakers addressed the large assembled congregation of friends: Bishop George H. Taylor, whose ward Brother and Sister Marks had been identified with the greater part of their residence in Utah, eulogized Sister Marks for her integrity to the truth and her noble and generous disposition, often in his remarks referring to her husband, saying in all the years he had known them (over twenty-eight) he had never seen or heard an unkind act or word and could truthfully say of the departed that they were true, honest, and faithful Latter-day Saints. John McDonald Jr. and Jesse W. Fox Jr. spoke of their visits to Sister Marks, and bore their testimony to her excellent character and how they had learned to love and honor her. The closing remarks were made by Elder George G. Bywater, whose long acquaintance with the family enabled him to speak of the many noble traits of character exhibited by Brother and Sister Marks, as was witnessed by him in this and their native land. Speaking of their generosity to the Elders and the kindly reception he and other Elders received at their hands while he was laboring as a missionary in England some thirty-three years ago, he had never, he said, met two whose dispositions were so even and uniform; and he could endorse all that had been said of their excellent character and faithfulness.
Sister Marks was the mother of seven children, six of whom survive her; forty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Six of her grandchildren acted as pallbearers at her request. She lived as she died, in full faith of the Gospel and in hope of a glorious resurrection. -
[COMMUNICATED. Millennial Star, please copy.
Daughter of Thomas Stephens and Sarah Reese
Married John Rowe Marks, 1 December 1835, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales
Children - Stephen Henry Rowe Marks; Mary Jane Marks; Elizabeth Alice Marks; Grace May Marks; John Rowe Marks; William J. Marks; Robert N. Marks
Hannah converted to the Latter-day Saint faith in 1851. Immigrated to Utah in 1866. Three wearisome months were spent on the sailing vessel from Liverpool to New York City. From thence their journey continued by steamboat to Chicago; from Chicago overland to St. Louis by railway; again by steamboat up the Missouri River to Council Bluffs by ox team, the entire trip consuming a period of eight long, toilsome months, arriving in Salt Lake Valley Oct. 31 1866. Generous, kind, affectionate, hard worker and loved as a mother by all acquaintances, it is said of Sister Marks, by one who properly knew her, that an unkind word never was known to have left her lips. Her endearing life closed at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth A. M. Smith.
Transcribed from The Deseret News - March 8, 1895, page 5
OBITUARY NOTES.
------------------------
HANNAH STEVENS MARKS.
Hannah Stevens Marks, whose death occurred in Salt Lake City February 23rd, was born in Landvair, Monmouthshire, England, on the 20th day of February, 1812. She was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the year 1851, at Newport, Monmouthshire; was well known and beloved by hundreds of the Elders who labored in that vicinity from 1851 to the time of her departure of Utah in the year 1866, with her noble companion, the late John R. Marks (whose death occurred some five years and four months previous to Mother Marks') for their universal kindness to them; Brother and Sister Marks having provided a house for the Elders during that period. Sister Marks was a woman of noble and generous impulse, ever ready to assist in sickness or distress, and hundreds have cause to honor her memory. In crossing the Plains she came very near losing her life through over-anxiety and fatigue in caring for her family and nursing the sick in camp, but she bore all her suffering with out a complaining word, arriving in the valley on October 8th, 1866, and with joy and rejoicing was reunited with her husband, who had preceded her one year and prepared a home to receive his family in the Fourteenth ward of this city, where they lived the greater part of the time of their residence in Utah. In the year 1875 Brother and Sister Marks visited their native land, spending eleven months very pleasantly with their three sons and numerous relatives, and procuring geneological matter for Temple work, which in part they afterwards attended to. Sister Marks acted for many years as Relief society teacher in the Eighth ward of this city.
It was a sight long to be remembered to witness the large number of aged sisters who followed the remains of Mother Marks (from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. G. M. Smith where Brother and Sister Marks spent the latter part of their lives, surrounded by every comfort that kind hands and generous hearts could bestow) to the Fourteenth ward assembly rooms, where the services over the remains were held. The following speakers addressed the large assembled congregation of friends: Bishop George H. Taylor, whose ward Brother and Sister Marks had been identified with the greater part of their residence in Utah, eulogized Sister Marks for her integrity to the truth and her noble and generous disposition, often in his remarks referring to her husband, saying in all the years he had known them (over twenty-eight) he had never seen or heard an unkind act or word and could truthfully say of the departed that they were true, honest, and faithful Latter-day Saints. John McDonald Jr. and Jesse W. Fox Jr. spoke of their visits to Sister Marks, and bore their testimony to her excellent character and how they had learned to love and honor her. The closing remarks were made by Elder George G. Bywater, whose long acquaintance with the family enabled him to speak of the many noble traits of character exhibited by Brother and Sister Marks, as was witnessed by him in this and their native land. Speaking of their generosity to the Elders and the kindly reception he and other Elders received at their hands while he was laboring as a missionary in England some thirty-three years ago, he had never, he said, met two whose dispositions were so even and uniform; and he could endorse all that had been said of their excellent character and faithfulness.
Sister Marks was the mother of seven children, six of whom survive her; forty-four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Six of her grandchildren acted as pallbearers at her request. She lived as she died, in full faith of the Gospel and in hope of a glorious resurrection. -
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