Henry HAYTER

                   Biographical sketch in notes


Biography of Ann Hayter Smart
Written by a son
Ann Hayter Smart was born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, September 18, 1822, the daughter of Henry Hayter who was born at the same place, April 20, 1804, and Keziah Denison, born at the same place.
Domestic: In her early girlhood she married Henry Fleet by whom she had three children; Mary Ann, Alice, and Louisa. All three were born in England. Her husband was English, but we have not further data. After marriage, through an unworthy life, which caused much privation and sorrow and poverty, she separated from him and, soon after, married Thomas Sharratt Smart, formerly of Stonewall, Staffordshire, England, who was there born, Sptember 14, 1823. Both of their families were of the honorable, industrious, middle class; his farmers and hers commercial, and both had a goodly number of children. Both belonged to the Church of England and were respectable, loyal, English citizens.
Soon after this second marriage they came to the United States, settling first at St. Louis, Missouri as farmers, where their first child, Charlotte, was born. Here, learning of and investigating Mormonism, they joined the Church and soon thereafter (about 1852) moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where, after remaining but a brief time, they were directed to settle at a new town, American Fork, Utah. After remaining there a few years, taking active part in the affairs of this colony, they were invited to go to Provo in order that father could take charge of a newly founded tannery, which was about to fail, he understanding this business. This business becoming more thrifty and a number of families being gotten together by Presiding Bishop of Cache Valley, Peter Maughan, they were encouraged to go and assist in settling what became Franklin, Idaho, where they went in the spring of 1860. This became their permanent home until their deaths.
Mother gave birth from father to Charlotte, Maria, Thomas, Sarah Ann, Eliza, Frances Ann, William, Henry, Mary Jane, and Margaret, all of whom lived to maturity, married respected companions, all members of the Church except Francis Ann, who died in infancy, early in 1860, and was buried in Provo cemetery.
Father, being called in the Presidency of the Franklin Branch and later a member of the first Bishopric and still later a member of the Oneida Stake High Council, and mother, throughout her life being a member and worker in Relief Society, much of the time in its Presidency, and both being as well of public spirit, were ever prominent and helpful members of both church and municipality, as well as being industrious and thrifty farmers and, as parents, over watchful and persistent in the care of their children.
Their domestic life was successful in general, he proving a good husband and father, and she a good wife and mother, being loved and honored by all of their children.
Spiritual: Mother was spiritual minded in a fair degree. Her mind as well as her heart, however, had to be converted. She did not emotionally jump at conclusion when matters were advocated and unless it would bear reasoning it was not easy for her to accept. But in general she was true and loyal to the church as to her husband to whom she and her first three children were sealed in the Endowment House, and she had full faith in this eternal ordinance, as in all principles. While her nature was such as to make it a great trial, she consented to enter into the principle of plural marriage with father. As has been said, she was a constant worker in Relief Society, and was outstanding in charity and in care of the sick and needy in all directions, her liberality being proverbial. I remember that I parted reluctantly and often with some half-worn clothing I liked that it might hide the nakedness of some poorer boy. No one ever left her door hungry.
Education and Intellectual Inclinations: Mother, like the majority of English children at that time, had very little schooling and was busy generally assisting in bread winning. She, therefore, had but little education. But being naturally inclined to desire information, especially through reading, she became a very good reader and kept abreast of current event of her time through the same. Indeed so well was she informed in general, and her general appearance and quality of mind were such as to cause her to be supposed to be fairly educated.
Financial: Mother, coming from a commercially inclined line, inherited as well as acquired an aptitude in temporal matters. She was industrious, calculating, frugal, and highly economical, and, like her husband, was set against debt. Their arrangement made her custodian over chicken and dairy products. She also accommodated travelers through which she obtained means. She believed in the benefits of tithing, commercially and spiritually, and was hones with the Lord therein. There were times when father had to raise some money badly and knew not how to do so. I remember one such case when he had signed a note to help a brother and was called on to redeem it. Telling mother about it in sorrow, she asked, "Thomas, how much is it?" to which he answered, "fifty dollars". She left the room and soon returned and handed him this amount, saying, "I happen to have saved this from my earnings from butter and eggs and have kept it in case of need." In those days it meant much and it was received with deep gratitude and emotion. She not only had these qualities but she sought constantly to burn them into the very souls of her children. She was very strict in returning that which she borrowed but it was her principle to be as self-supporting as possible. Therefore, she avoided borrowing, as much as possible. Her business integrity and honesty were unquestionable; she being therin, as in other temporalities, a harmonious companion to her husband.
Social: Mother was by nature of a social temperament. While at home with the family her spirit went out in a broader field to mix socially with her fellows. She inherited a love for music and often contributed to social programs in homes of friends with vocal numbers. She often referred with sentimental interest to her having frequently sung to social witticisms and exchange of pleasantries at quilting bees, house parties, etc., seeming to me one of the leading magnets. But I never knew or heard of her upon such or other occasions being anything but ladylike and morally wholesome in every respect. Indeed her nature revolted against the low and vulgar. She, here again, watched and taught her children, instructing them in social, wholesome behavior both for home and abroad. She was heart and soul with the teaching of the church against promiscuous intercourse in dances at that period, and against card playing, gambling, and Sabbath breaking in amusements. If her children deflected there from, it was wholly without her wish and consent, and I cannot recall ever seeing a deck of cards in our home. Mother appeared to enjoy the pleasure and distinction of extending hospitality to the leading brethren and sisters visiting Franklin and appeared to make both them and herself at home. She had the gift, or so it appeared to me, of having a natural aptitude for making everybody at ease and at home. And I well recollect how upon leaving, their demeanor and attitude in general were such as to make one feel that they were reluctantly bidding adieu to a warm, cordial, appreciated friend and hostess and hoped the association would be soon renewed. 
Personality: Mother was of a swarthy, dark complexion, and her hair was almost raven black and well kept and shiny. She was medium height and in her younger days, was rather slender but well knit, sinewy, and enduring. Later she became fairly stout in build. She sat upright, never lolling, and walked with upright carriage and with a light, lithe step. Indeed, in all of her characteristics, there was nothing slovenly or careless. She bore much of the French complexion and the French ladyhood and social quality. She was proud but without vanity, strong in personality and passion when aroused, but was quick to forgive and make up at the first intimation on the part of the offender to so meet her. As I see her now in my riper years, one of her very outstanding virtues and marks of true greatness in womanhood and wifehood was that in the midst of her almost masculine strength of nature, she respected and was ever loyal to father as the head and Patriarch of the family and made him the real center and pivot around whom she and her children revolved and in whom they centered -- this in the spirit of genius of the church order. Indeed she sought to make his word law among us. She believed in order in all things, and therefore, the natural governmental order of the family with the husband at the head in similitude of church order and government, which was aptly appealing to her inward soul and, therefore, she rather voluntarily bowed to it. In this she proved a strong ally to the companions of her married children. When there was domestic trouble, which comes to all families, while she might scorch the offender as she saw it in private, she would defend him or her before her child, and teach to suffer wrong than do it, would be a true peacemaker, and was a strong factor in reconciliation.
During a storm she was instantly killed in her farm house by a shaft of lightning, I by her side, June 22, 1876, and was buried in the home farm private cemetery.

S289 ] Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart, Smart, William B., (Logan: Utah State Unv. Press, 2008), page 9[S28 ] United States Census 1870Dwelling houses numbered in order of visitation: 105Families numbered in order of visitation: 105Name: Smart, AnnAge at last birthday: 48Sex: FColor: WProfession, Occupation, or Trade: Keeping HousePlace of birth: EnglandFather of foreign birth: markedMother of foreign birth: markedAttended School within the year: not markedCannot read: not markedCannot write: not markedWhether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict: not marked[Territory] of Utah, Cache County, Franklin precinct, page 14Franklin is now in Franklin County, Idaho.        Smart Family Migration, Hansen, Robert Foss22 June 1876 Ann Hayter was killed by a shaft of lightning, during a storm, at her home in Franklin while sewing on her machine near the open door. Her son, William Henry Smart being at her side. She was buried on the farm in the Family Cemetery.
          Smart Family Migration, Hansen, Robert Foss24 Oct 1841 Ann married Henry Fleet a son of Henry Fleet a Baker, he gave his occupation as Labourer. This event occurred in the Parish Church of St. Marys' in Southampton about 20 miles North West of her home in Portsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. Her sister Sarah Cooper was a witness to the wedding.        Smart Family Migration, Hansen, Robert Fossabt 1845 Some of our family histories say that Thomas Smart met Ann at a boarding-house she was running. He could have been directed to her by her father who was in the same business of brick-making. She was a hard worker and organizer and had a liking for the cultural things of life; her brother Harry played the violin and others in her family were musically inclined. She was having a hard time rearing two small children ( and was about to have a third), living with an alcoholic husband when she met Thomas, who had come to France to supervise the job of burning three million bricks.1 March 1845 She subsequently left Harry Fleet and married Thomas Sharratt Smart at Havre, France according to family records; this is probably Le-Havre, Seine, Maritime, France.