Ellen was known as Nell in her family, and as time went on in the family she would get for herself.
Nell's father was William Fleming Barton and her mother was Ann Rigby.
Ellen was the sixth child and her mother would have three more before she died when Ellen was about eight years old. the family immigrated to Utah in 1879.
We think that happened because the rather scanty histories left in the Barton family inform us that William F. Barton went to work for John Hopkin in a coal mine in Coalville, Utah, not too long after the family got to the New World.
All of this explains how a meeting might have occurred. Whoever thought it might be a good idea for John to marry Ellen and why remains a mystery. Whatever the reasons for their getting married, they weren't good or enduring enough to sustain the marriage.
Sometime between the time Ellen became pregnant and she was to deliver their only child she had become unhappy with the arrangements and left the Hopkin household. Their son, who would be given the name Arthur Barton, was born in Springville, Utah.
I looked a long time to see if there was a record of a divorce. I never found what I was looking for; undoubtedly because there never was a court divorce. In a book I read, entitled, Life In The Principle, there is a chapter on divorces in polygamous marriages. This book makes it clear that polygamous divorces were not handled by civil courts but by authorities in the church.
That there had been some kind of an annulment of John and Ellen's marriage is confirmed by the fact that she was permitted to go to the Logan Temple in 1896 to have her civil marriage to Eugene Harris made eternal. She had first married Harris in Provo on December 9, 1891.
Eugene Harris, who died in 1900. They had four children together.
Ellen was an attractive woman and a good woman. She found her way back to Provo sometime after she lost Eugene and married a man named J. H. Snyder. She wasn't allowed much time to enjoy her ease. Three days before Christmas in 1913 she died of what was probably uterine cancer.
Nell's father was William Fleming Barton and her mother was Ann Rigby.
Ellen was the sixth child and her mother would have three more before she died when Ellen was about eight years old. the family immigrated to Utah in 1879.
We think that happened because the rather scanty histories left in the Barton family inform us that William F. Barton went to work for John Hopkin in a coal mine in Coalville, Utah, not too long after the family got to the New World.
All of this explains how a meeting might have occurred. Whoever thought it might be a good idea for John to marry Ellen and why remains a mystery. Whatever the reasons for their getting married, they weren't good or enduring enough to sustain the marriage.
Sometime between the time Ellen became pregnant and she was to deliver their only child she had become unhappy with the arrangements and left the Hopkin household. Their son, who would be given the name Arthur Barton, was born in Springville, Utah.
I looked a long time to see if there was a record of a divorce. I never found what I was looking for; undoubtedly because there never was a court divorce. In a book I read, entitled, Life In The Principle, there is a chapter on divorces in polygamous marriages. This book makes it clear that polygamous divorces were not handled by civil courts but by authorities in the church.
That there had been some kind of an annulment of John and Ellen's marriage is confirmed by the fact that she was permitted to go to the Logan Temple in 1896 to have her civil marriage to Eugene Harris made eternal. She had first married Harris in Provo on December 9, 1891.
Eugene Harris, who died in 1900. They had four children together.
Ellen was an attractive woman and a good woman. She found her way back to Provo sometime after she lost Eugene and married a man named J. H. Snyder. She wasn't allowed much time to enjoy her ease. Three days before Christmas in 1913 she died of what was probably uterine cancer.
Ellen was known as Nell in her family, and as time went on in the family she would get for herself.
Nell's father was William Fleming Barton and her mother was Ann Rigby.
Ellen was the sixth child and her mother would have three more before she died when Ellen was about eight years old. the family immigrated to Utah in 1879.
We think that happened because the rather scanty histories left in the Barton family inform us that William F. Barton went to work for John Hopkin in a coal mine in Coalville, Utah, not too long after the family got to the New World.
All of this explains how a meeting might have occurred. Whoever thought it might be a good idea for John to marry Ellen and why remains a mystery. Whatever the reasons for their getting married, they weren't good or enduring enough to sustain the marriage.
Sometime between the time Ellen became pregnant and she was to deliver their only child she had become unhappy with the arrangements and left the Hopkin household. Their son, who would be given the name Arthur Barton, was born in Springville, Utah.
I looked a long time to see if there was a record of a divorce. I never found what I was looking for; undoubtedly because there never was a court divorce. In a book I read, entitled, Life In The Principle, there is a chapter on divorces in polygamous marriages. This book makes it clear that polygamous divorces were not handled by civil courts but by authorities in the church.
That there had been some kind of an annulment of John and Ellen's marriage is confirmed by the fact that she was permitted to go to the Logan Temple in 1896 to have her civil marriage to Eugene Harris made eternal. She had first married Harris in Provo on December 9, 1891.
Eugene Harris, who died in 1900. They had four children together.
Ellen was an attractive woman and a good woman. She found her way back to Provo sometime after she lost Eugene and married a man named J. H. Snyder. She wasn't allowed much time to enjoy her ease. Three days before Christmas in 1913 she died of what was probably uterine cancer.
Nell's father was William Fleming Barton and her mother was Ann Rigby.
Ellen was the sixth child and her mother would have three more before she died when Ellen was about eight years old. the family immigrated to Utah in 1879.
We think that happened because the rather scanty histories left in the Barton family inform us that William F. Barton went to work for John Hopkin in a coal mine in Coalville, Utah, not too long after the family got to the New World.
All of this explains how a meeting might have occurred. Whoever thought it might be a good idea for John to marry Ellen and why remains a mystery. Whatever the reasons for their getting married, they weren't good or enduring enough to sustain the marriage.
Sometime between the time Ellen became pregnant and she was to deliver their only child she had become unhappy with the arrangements and left the Hopkin household. Their son, who would be given the name Arthur Barton, was born in Springville, Utah.
I looked a long time to see if there was a record of a divorce. I never found what I was looking for; undoubtedly because there never was a court divorce. In a book I read, entitled, Life In The Principle, there is a chapter on divorces in polygamous marriages. This book makes it clear that polygamous divorces were not handled by civil courts but by authorities in the church.
That there had been some kind of an annulment of John and Ellen's marriage is confirmed by the fact that she was permitted to go to the Logan Temple in 1896 to have her civil marriage to Eugene Harris made eternal. She had first married Harris in Provo on December 9, 1891.
Eugene Harris, who died in 1900. They had four children together.
Ellen was an attractive woman and a good woman. She found her way back to Provo sometime after she lost Eugene and married a man named J. H. Snyder. She wasn't allowed much time to enjoy her ease. Three days before Christmas in 1913 she died of what was probably uterine cancer.
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