Hannah Eliza Woolf, 4th child and second daughter of John Anthony and Sarah Ann Devoe Woolf, was born 5 Nov. 1838, in Pelham, Westchester, New York. She was only 3 years old when her parents accepted the Gospel and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When she was 5 years old, the family boarded the boat on the Hudson River for a long trip by water to Nauvoo, Illinois.
She remember Winter Quarters, and one event in particular. She said, "I was baptized by my father when I was 8 years old at Winter Quarters in the Hiland Grove, where we wintered."
"I was married to Homer Brown in 1856 12 Oct. By Brigham Young in his office, and afterward sealed in the Endowment House. After I was married, I with my husband and family moved to Nephi and bought a farm. He followed farming until 1862, when he let his farm out to Sam Linton, returned to Salt Lake and took his father's farm on shares. We lived there until 1881 and then moved out to Taylorsville."
Hannah Eliza became the mother of 14 children, 10 of whom lived to maturity. In 1905 her husband passed away after being badly injured by a bull. She continued to live in Taylorsville until about 1914, when she sold her 85 acre farm in the Bennion Ward and bought a little piece of land on her daughter's place at Thomas, Idaho, so that she could be near some of her children. She then was about 76 years old, her children had all married and left home except Claude, her youngest son, who had crippled feet and never married.
Erwin Brown Evans, a grandson who lived next door to her in Thomas, relates, "Grandmother was always very active and energetic; even during the last summer of her life, although she was almost 90 years old, she insisted on doing most of her housework, as well as some hoeing in her garden.
She passed away 3 Dec 1927 in her little home at Thomas at the age of 89 (just a month short of her 90th birthday), having lived to be older than any of her brothers and sisters.
She was buried in the Thomas Cemetery. She was preceded in death by 8 of her 14 children. She died as she had lived, true to the faith and valiant in the truth. Her testimony, in her own words from her autobiography states, "I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Brigham Young was his successor. I have a strong testimony to bear to the truthfulness of this work. I have had many testimonies that it is true and the everlasting gospel."
She remember Winter Quarters, and one event in particular. She said, "I was baptized by my father when I was 8 years old at Winter Quarters in the Hiland Grove, where we wintered."
"I was married to Homer Brown in 1856 12 Oct. By Brigham Young in his office, and afterward sealed in the Endowment House. After I was married, I with my husband and family moved to Nephi and bought a farm. He followed farming until 1862, when he let his farm out to Sam Linton, returned to Salt Lake and took his father's farm on shares. We lived there until 1881 and then moved out to Taylorsville."
Hannah Eliza became the mother of 14 children, 10 of whom lived to maturity. In 1905 her husband passed away after being badly injured by a bull. She continued to live in Taylorsville until about 1914, when she sold her 85 acre farm in the Bennion Ward and bought a little piece of land on her daughter's place at Thomas, Idaho, so that she could be near some of her children. She then was about 76 years old, her children had all married and left home except Claude, her youngest son, who had crippled feet and never married.
Erwin Brown Evans, a grandson who lived next door to her in Thomas, relates, "Grandmother was always very active and energetic; even during the last summer of her life, although she was almost 90 years old, she insisted on doing most of her housework, as well as some hoeing in her garden.
She passed away 3 Dec 1927 in her little home at Thomas at the age of 89 (just a month short of her 90th birthday), having lived to be older than any of her brothers and sisters.
She was buried in the Thomas Cemetery. She was preceded in death by 8 of her 14 children. She died as she had lived, true to the faith and valiant in the truth. Her testimony, in her own words from her autobiography states, "I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Brigham Young was his successor. I have a strong testimony to bear to the truthfulness of this work. I have had many testimonies that it is true and the everlasting gospel."
Hannah Eliza Woolf, 4th child and second daughter of John Anthony and Sarah Ann Devoe Woolf, was born 5 Nov. 1838, in Pelham, Westchester, New York. She was only 3 years old when her parents accepted the Gospel and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When she was 5 years old, the family boarded the boat on the Hudson River for a long trip by water to Nauvoo, Illinois.
She remember Winter Quarters, and one event in particular. She said, "I was baptized by my father when I was 8 years old at Winter Quarters in the Hiland Grove, where we wintered."
"I was married to Homer Brown in 1856 12 Oct. By Brigham Young in his office, and afterward sealed in the Endowment House. After I was married, I with my husband and family moved to Nephi and bought a farm. He followed farming until 1862, when he let his farm out to Sam Linton, returned to Salt Lake and took his father's farm on shares. We lived there until 1881 and then moved out to Taylorsville."
Hannah Eliza became the mother of 14 children, 10 of whom lived to maturity. In 1905 her husband passed away after being badly injured by a bull. She continued to live in Taylorsville until about 1914, when she sold her 85 acre farm in the Bennion Ward and bought a little piece of land on her daughter's place at Thomas, Idaho, so that she could be near some of her children. She then was about 76 years old, her children had all married and left home except Claude, her youngest son, who had crippled feet and never married.
Erwin Brown Evans, a grandson who lived next door to her in Thomas, relates, "Grandmother was always very active and energetic; even during the last summer of her life, although she was almost 90 years old, she insisted on doing most of her housework, as well as some hoeing in her garden.
She passed away 3 Dec 1927 in her little home at Thomas at the age of 89 (just a month short of her 90th birthday), having lived to be older than any of her brothers and sisters.
She was buried in the Thomas Cemetery. She was preceded in death by 8 of her 14 children. She died as she had lived, true to the faith and valiant in the truth. Her testimony, in her own words from her autobiography states, "I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Brigham Young was his successor. I have a strong testimony to bear to the truthfulness of this work. I have had many testimonies that it is true and the everlasting gospel."
She remember Winter Quarters, and one event in particular. She said, "I was baptized by my father when I was 8 years old at Winter Quarters in the Hiland Grove, where we wintered."
"I was married to Homer Brown in 1856 12 Oct. By Brigham Young in his office, and afterward sealed in the Endowment House. After I was married, I with my husband and family moved to Nephi and bought a farm. He followed farming until 1862, when he let his farm out to Sam Linton, returned to Salt Lake and took his father's farm on shares. We lived there until 1881 and then moved out to Taylorsville."
Hannah Eliza became the mother of 14 children, 10 of whom lived to maturity. In 1905 her husband passed away after being badly injured by a bull. She continued to live in Taylorsville until about 1914, when she sold her 85 acre farm in the Bennion Ward and bought a little piece of land on her daughter's place at Thomas, Idaho, so that she could be near some of her children. She then was about 76 years old, her children had all married and left home except Claude, her youngest son, who had crippled feet and never married.
Erwin Brown Evans, a grandson who lived next door to her in Thomas, relates, "Grandmother was always very active and energetic; even during the last summer of her life, although she was almost 90 years old, she insisted on doing most of her housework, as well as some hoeing in her garden.
She passed away 3 Dec 1927 in her little home at Thomas at the age of 89 (just a month short of her 90th birthday), having lived to be older than any of her brothers and sisters.
She was buried in the Thomas Cemetery. She was preceded in death by 8 of her 14 children. She died as she had lived, true to the faith and valiant in the truth. Her testimony, in her own words from her autobiography states, "I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that Brigham Young was his successor. I have a strong testimony to bear to the truthfulness of this work. I have had many testimonies that it is true and the everlasting gospel."
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