My maiden name was Elizabeth Bocock, my father’s name was William Bocock and my mother's maiden name was Sarah Brough. I was born at Tinsley Bar near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England on May 11, 1837. My parents were in comfortable circumstances and gave me a good common education, intending to send me to a Normal School to educate me for a teacher, but my father died when I was eleven years old (13 May 1848) and mother died four years afterward (8 Mar 1852).

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After my parents death, my sisters and myself continued to keep the Toll Gate where we lived.

This is a most interesting family. The archive record of this family was prepared as if Mr. Bligh and Ann Bligh were a married couple. This is very misleading, as Ann Bligh never married. The archive record [LDS] shows 5 children born at Shelfanger to Mr. Bligh and Mrs. Ann Bligh. There were in fact 7 children born to Ann Bligh, a single woman, at Tibenham, not Shelfanger. The 2 children not shown on the archive record are Mary, christened 15 October 1769 and the second John born 13 January 1789.

It was just a few days before Christmas. I was a 17 year old high school senior. Although my grandmother had been in the hospital for several weeks and was dying from cancer, it had been awhile since I had seen her. I was shocked at what I saw when I went with my parents, aunts, uncles and grandfather to visit her that cold snowy wintry night. There on a sterile hospital bed I saw someone I loved very much, incoherent and full of pain. She did not recognize me or anyone else in the room. She screamed. She cried. She made sounds.

Bishop William Haney Hickenlooper Obituary

At a quarter past 2 o’clock this morning (Jan. 14,1888), Bishop William H. Hickenlooper, of the Sixth Ward, breathed his last at his home in this city, at the advanced age of 83 years, 3 months and 23 days. The announcement of his death comes suddenly, even to his most intimate friends, the sickness which was the immediate cause of his demise having attacked him but yesterday morning. At the time of his death he was the oldest Bishop in the Church, and for over forty years he had held the position now made

William Hickenlooper

Conversion Story

In the winter of 1838–9, William and family (first wife) were residing in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania at the time that the Latter-day Saints were being so bitterly persecuted in Missouri. Rumors were current throughout the country that the “Mormons” were burning and pillaging the houses of the citizens in that State; these rumors having been spread by the enemies of the Saints to draw public attention from their own horrible crimes and provide a temporary excuse for the infamous

College Orientation

A couple of days before classwork began at Weber College I finalized my registration for the Fall Quarter and attended the required orientation class. The class instructor put on a memory demonstration that is still hard to believe. When I registered, I was assigned a room and a time for my orientation class. The instructor had several orientation classes to teach during a two-day period in order to reach all the new freshmen.

For most people going from elementary school to junior high school was a significant change in their lives. They went to a different school with completely different teachers. This was not true in my case. The North Ogden Junior High School included kindergarten through the tenth grade in one building. The biggest change when going from our elementary school to junior high school was the addition of matinee dances and intra-school sports. Basketball, baseball and track were fierce competitive sports between the different junior high schools in Weber County.

The Mission Home

The term Mission Training Center was not the name they used for missionary training when I was a missionary. I think it was called the Mission Home. The name does not matter as long as my readers know what I’m talking about.

Will of Peter
Sparke

Extracted from the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court of Exeter
in the year of our Lord 1796.

In the name of God, Amen. Be it remembered this is the last Will
and Testament of me Peter Sparke of Cleyhydon in the County of
Devon, Yeoman, made this eleventh Day of December in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight.

Funeral Service of Vanese Barker Mathews

31 December 1985
College Park Ward
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
3790 East-West Highway
Hyattsville, Maryland

Transcribed by Sharon Mathews with additional transcription
and editing by Dennis B. Mathews and Lydia Mathews