Benjamin Loss PEART

Notes:

                   Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, page 2328:
       Elizabeth was born in England in 1859.  She was the oldest of nine children.  Elizabeth found work in the same cinch factory her father worked in.  She attended night school to learn to read and write.  She learned some good cooking skills while working at a bakery.
       Although the family wanted to come to America, finances were poor.  Finally Elizabeth said, "If I can't go now, I won't go."  Her parents took her to Liverpool and bought her passage on the ship "Colorado," then they left her before the ship sailed.  The ship was delayed a day after it was scheduled to leave.  A kind lady took Elizabeth home with her and a kind young man helped her aboard the next morning.  She was seasick all the way across the Atlantic.  After opening the porthole by her bed, she couldn't close it.  So her bed was wet all the way, but she was too sick to care.
       When she crossed the Plains isn't known but she talked about the wagon she rode in.
       On arrival into the Great Salt Lake Valley, the missionary who converted her family, helped her get a job in Brigham Young's dairy.  She later worked in the home of Squire Wells.  She was happy in both places.
       Elizabeth married Benjamin Loss Peart on October 9 1869 in Salt Lake City.  Their first child Sylvia was born in 1869 in Salt Lake City.
       Benjamin and Elizabeth started for Soda Springs when their baby was six months old, stopping in Richmond to visit Elizabeth's family that came in 1869.  Circumstances led them to remain in this home for two years.  Elizabeth's mother died in March, 1873.
       Elizbeth did sewing to help provide for the family.  Benjamin bought a saw mill and shingle mill in High Creek Canyon.  Elizabeth cooked for the mill hands.  Benjamin lost all his property and they moved to Cottonwood Valley.  The snow was eight feet the first winter and they were snowed in without any supplies.  Neighbors helped dig them out.
       After her mother's death, Elizabeth took care of her mentally retarded sister, Mary, she outlived Elizabeth by four months.
       Elizabeth was a wonderful mother, very resourceful and ambitious, a clean and tidy housekeeper and always a friend.
      Elizabeth passed away on August 22, 1926 at the age of seventy-seven.