John ENNISS

Sources:

Family Records
Main Archive Record
History of Utah, Volume 4 (Biographies) - Orson F Whitney , John Enniss Biography, pp 409-410
Internet IGI, Apr 2008
Pedigree Resource File
Ancestral File - Version 4.19
Ancestry World Tree Project
1850 Census - District 21, Pottawattamie, IA, Transcribed as Hennis
1870 Census - Willow Creek Ward, Salt Lake, UT
1880 Census - District 59, Draper, Salt Lake, UT
Marks and Brands of Utah, 1874-1884, John Enniss, page 47
Death Certificate, John Enniss
New.familysearch.org, Dec 2011
Annie Durrant Huff Book of Remembrance
Annie Durrant Huff Book of Remembrance

Notes:

                   Sailed for America September 2, 1849, arriving in New Orleans.  History of Utah biography included in notes.  Biography says he is the father of eight by his first wife, and two by his second.  Records only show six by his frist wife.  The biography may be in error.

History of Utah vol 4, page 409-410
JOHN ENNISS, second son of John and Hannah Park Enniss, was born December 10, 1821, in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. At eleven years of age he was left fatherless, and the care of his mother and the family devolved upon him. He became a farmer and stock-raiser. About June, 1841, he was baptized a Latter-day Saint by Elder John Rogers, and later was ordained a Priest. On December 14, 1845, he married Elizabeth Boulter. In June, 1847, he was ordained an Elder by John Johnson, the president of his conference, and was called to preside over the Puncil branch of the same. This position he held until he and his family emigrated to America. September 2, 1849, was the date of sailing. They landed at New Orleans on the 27th of October, and remained there during the winter, Mr. Enniss working on the docks to secure funds for the journey up the river to Council Bluffs, where he and his party arrived in the spring of 1850. Another stop was now necessary, to recruit finances for the crossing of the plains. He worked at farming and timbering for the Otto and Omaha Indian Missions in Nebraska. In the fall of 1850 a fire destroyed his dwelling and household effects, and this misfortune, with the sickness and death of his wife's parents and other relatives, made it impossible for him to move farther west until the spring of 1852, when with his wife and family he came to Utah in Thomas Tidwell's ox-team company, arriving at Salt Lake City in the fall. Mr. Enniss worked a while for Willard Richards, and in the spring of 1853 settled at Draper (then South Willow Creek), where he has since continued to reside. He has pursued the peaceful vocation of a farmer, and while performing no missions abroad, has always been on hand with his means, influence and personal labors for the development of the country and the defense of its inhabitants. By his first wife he is the father of eight children. By his second wife, Jane Oaky, whom he married in 1855, he is the
father of two, one of whom died in infancy. In the Church he has served as a Ward Teacher, and has held successively the offices of Seventy and High Priest. To the latter, his present calling, he was ordained February 2, 1901.