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Ellott and Emma Jane Willden

History of Ellott Willden

Ellot Willden was born to Charles and Eleanor Turner Willden on the 28th of September 1833, Laughton, Yorkshire, England. He was baptized on August 20th 1845 by his father.

The family left England aboard the ship "Zetland" on November 10, 1849 and arrived at New Orleans on the 26th of December of December that same year. They then sailed on the boat, the "Ben West," on December 29th for St. Louis. They reached St. Louis on January 11, 1850 where they stopped and worked for a few months until they had enough money to travel on then they took the boat, Cora, on April 12, bound for Council Bluffs.  read more »

The History of Emma Jane Clews, Pioneer 1852

and

Ellott Willden, Pioneer, 1852

written by Manila May Willden Hardy
Read in Lincoln Camp by Norma Willden Diener, May 19, 1947, Salt Lake County

Emma Jane Clews was born December 21, 1939 in Shelton, Staffordshire, England. She was the daughter of Andrew and Mary Ann Thomas Clews. Emma, together with her parents and two brothers - one her senior named Joseph, the younger named Andrew, left England to join the saints in Utah. The family crossed the ocean independently, so I have not been able to learn just when they left or on what ship they sailed on, there is no record as to when they landed in New Orleans.  read more »

Ellott Willden was the son of Charles William Willden.

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Charles William Willden was born in Anston, England, in Yorkshire county, on the 27th of July, 1806. His eternal mate Eleanor Turner
was also born in Yorkshire county, in the village of Laughton, on the
9th of April, 1810. They met and were married in Laughton on January  read more »

By 1859 the iron works had become a failure, and great numbers of people
moved away to seek new homes. The Willden's moved to the badlands or sinks
southeast of Beaver, then called lower Beaver. They arrived there Sunday,
March 24, 1859. Here Charles Willden and his four sons, Ellot, Charles,
John and Feargus each took up 10 acres of land.

Many times Charles had thought of making a home on Cove Creek and as
their land in Beaver proved to be poor, Charles bought 160 acres there
from Matthew McEwen of Beaver who had sheep there. - John Willden  read more »

After the Willdens arrived in Salt Lake City, Charles Willden was making
a deal with Lorenzo D. Young to be his farmer, but as soon as Lorenzo heard
the name Willden he wanted to know if he was Charles Willden, the steel
refiner by trade. Being answered in the affirmative, Lorenzo said he could
not make any other arrangements as he had heard his brother Brigham speak
of him and that he rather expected that his brother's intentions were to
send him to Cedar City, then known as Coal Creek, to work in the iron industry
there.  read more »