George INGRAM

                       IGI   verified Harriet's baptism and endowment dates, sealed to parents on 25
    Sep 1973 SGEOR searched on 13 Aug 1994.
    Book 289.309, J453c: came to U.S. in Mar 1854 landing at New Orleans, to Utah
    with David Kearns Company, with ox teams and handcarts, arriving in SLC on 1
    Oct 1854, sent to Parowan, and married Silas Hoyt, in 1871 moved to Mt. Carmel
    and lived there until death in 1906.

    Personal History Sketch of Harriet Ingram Gardner Hoyt

    Born 29 January 1816 at Slindon, Sussex County, England.  Died 4 April 1906 at
    Mt. Carmel, Kane County, Utah.

    Harriet was the daughter of George Ingram and Harriet Bowley and was the fifth
    child in a family of eight.  Quoting from a short sketch left in her own hand-
    writing we have the following information:

    "I was born in the village of Slindon, near Arundel, in the County of Sussex,
    (England) on the 29th of January 1816.  My father, George Ingram and my mother,
    Harriet Bowley were honest, industrious, hardworking people, poor but we never
    wanted for the necessaries of life.  My education was very limited.  In those
    days there were no schools as in these days (1905), in fact they thought there
    was no need of girls having much schooling.  When I was 13 years and 9 months
    old I went out to get my own living and continued to do so until I was near 30
    years of age when I married to Henry Bone Gardner on the 22nd day of November
    1845.

    "There was a great flood in the city of Chichester, near where we lived.  My
    husband got wet through and was in his wet clothes all day.  He caught a severe
    cold and it termined in consumption (tuberculosis of the lungs).  He died 11th
    of December 1853.

    "I was baptized by James Cowdy April 14, l851.  (Henry was baptized at the same
    time.)  It was the same James Cowdy that was killed east of Laramie in
    September, 1856.

    "During my servitude I had saved some money that brought me and mine to Utah.
    In January 1854 I started for Utah.  We crossed the sea in the Golconda,
    arrived at New Orleans in March, crossed the plains in the David Kerns company,
    arrived in Salt Lake City October 1, 1954, came to Parowan where I was married
    to Silas Hoyt on November 21, l854.

    From information handed down by word of mouth it appears that Harriet's father,
    George Ingram and his older sons were brickmakers by trade.  It also appears
    that the employment that enabled her to earn her own living and save money to
    come to Utah was that of household servant for a wealthy family.  Her husband,
    Henry Bone Gardner was a gardener by trade and was especially skilled at
    pruning trees and shubbery.

    Four children were born to Henry Bone Gardner and Harriet Ingram:  Emily Jane,
    born 15 October 1846; Henry, born 9 August 1848; and Alice Ann, born 15 August
    1850; and Fanny, born 25 August 1853.  Fanny was less that four months old when
    her father fied and barely five months old when Harriet and her four small
    fatherless children set sail for America.

    The ship Golconda was a small sailing vessel and the trip across the ocean from
    Liverpool to New Orleans was a very rough and stormy voyage.  Six weeks were
    required to cover this distance. The trip up the Mississippi River from New
    Orleans to St. Louis, Missouri was made by river boat, probably a steam boat.
    Cholera got started among the poeple on this boat causing much sickness and
    some deaths.  Among those who died were two of Harriet's children, Fanny the
    baby and Emily age 7.  These children were buried on the banks of the Mississ-
    ippi River.

    After a stopover in an encampment at St. Louis, Missouri the emigrants from
    England crossed the plains in the David Kerns Company which was for the most
    part a train of wagons pulled by ox teams although it is said that there were
    some handcarts also in this company.  Harriet walked almost all the way often
    carrying her small daughter, Alice Ann age 4 on her back and leading her small
    son, Henry by the hand.  At one point an order came down the line to lighten
    the load so the outfit could travel faster and Harriet was obliged to sacrifice
    a chest full of clothing that she had brought from England and that was sorely
    needed later when they arrived in Utah.  They arrived in Salt Lake City on Oct-
    ober 1, l854 and were sent on almost immediately to Parowan, Utah, which was
    then a struggling outpost barely two years old.

    Soon after reaching Parowan, Harriet who was by this time about 38 years old
    met and married Silas Hoyt who was then 33 years old.  Shortly afterward they
    took up residence in a mud or adobe cabin which was built into and formed part
    of the wall of the old fort at Parowan.  Here she took up the usual duties of a
    pioneer housewife and mother which consisted, among other things, of cooking
    and washing with very primitive equipment, also carding, spinning, weaving, and
    sewing with simple hand powered tools.  Silas Hoyt was a Yankee from the State
    of Maine who had come to Utah intending to go on to California, but had become
    converted to the Mormon religion and cast his lot with the Mormon Pioneers.
    He was a clockmaker by trade but was skillful with all ordinary hand tools as
    the need arose became a sort of jack-of-all-trades.

    Three children were born to Silas Hoyt and Harriet Ingram, all during the ten
    or eleven years that they lived at Parowan.  Rachel Harriet, born 20 December
    1855; George, born 24 February 1859; and Mary Elizabeth, born 15 May 1862.
    George died in infancy, but Rachel and Mary lived to a good old age and each
    raised a large family.  Besides the regular tasks of providing good food, fuel,
    shelter, and protection for his family, Silas took part in a number of
    exploring expeditions in the country around in Southern Utah and Nevada.  One
    of these trips took him into Long Valley on the headwaters of the Virgin River.
    He was attracted to this place and decided to make his home there.  In June of
    1865 he moved his wife Harriet and all the family to Mt. Carmel in Long Valley.
    Their first stay at Mt. Carmel lasted only about one year and then they were
    forced to move to Virgin City because of Indian troubles.  These pioneering
    ventures brought extra hardship and difficulties for all of the family.

    After a stay of about two years in Virgin and about four years in Kanarrah the
    family moved back to Mt. Carmel, all except Alice Ann who was married to Alma
    Barney on the 22nd of September 1871 at Kanarrah.  Back at Mt. Carmel again
    other troubles arose because another company of pioneers had come in and
    squatted on land that had been occupied and improved by the older settlers.
    Silas recovered part of the land he had formerly claimed but was finally cut
    off from the church because of the troubles that had arisen over the land.
    About ten years after their return to Mt. Carmel, Silas Hoyt left his home and
    family and moved on to California where he stayed until near the end of his
    life.  Silas worked hard during the ten years at Mt. Carmel to improve his farm
    and he also built a frame house, lined with adobe, on the lower street where his
    wife, Harriet lived for several years until her son, Henry built a new house on
    the upper street.

    Also during this ten year period the two daughters of Silas and Harriet were
    married.  Rachel Harriet was married to Reuben G. Jolley on the 20th of Decem-
    ber 1873, and Mary Elizabeth was married to George W. Hicks on the 9th of Dec-
    ember 1878.  Harriet's son Henry Gardner never married until some years later
    and after her husband left Henry became her chief means of support.  Before
    Silas left he sold most of his land to his son-in-law, George Hicks.  Henry
    found employment at the saw mills and working with cattle but his employment
    took him away from home much of the time so Harriet had to live alone while he
    was away.  Harriet did not allow herself to become embittered against the
    church by the land troubles but continued active in the Relief Society and
    remained faithful to the end of her life.

    About 1897 Henry had a new house built on the same lot as the older one but
    facing the upper street which had by this time become the main street of the
    town because the creek had cut a deep channel and washed away part of the lower
    street, and his mother came to live with him in the new house.  Henry Gardner
    was married to Madelene Dailey on 19 October 1899 and he brought his young
    wife to live with him and his elderly Mother in the new home.

    Harriet observed her 90th birthday on January 29, l906 and died on the 4th of
    April that same year after an illness of only about two weeks.  A funeral was
    held for her in the Mt. Carmel Ward Chapel which was attended by many friends
    and