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In 1841 Elizabeth was 50 years old, b. abt 1780.
Suicide: gunshot wound to lower left chest
In 1835, James W. Taylor married Ann in England. There were two children born to them there. Ann become a member of the Church before emigrating. She was a great believer in the laying on of hands for the sick and had witnessed the healing of her children by adminstration.
While on the trip across the ocean, one of the sailors become very ill and Ann doctored him. He was so greatful that he gave her valuable information as to how she could make some money upon her arrival in New Orleans. He advised her to hire a Negro woman to do the washing for the captains and mates of the sea-going vessels. She did so and was able to make enough money to buy a wagon and two yolk of owen for the trip across the plains.
She endured many hardships before arriving in the valley. While crossing the plains she buried a pair of twins. She gave birth to 14 children in all.
She was a woman of great intelligence, always ready to care for the poor and the sick and help care for the dead. It is told that at one time she used the last shirt of one of her small daughters for the burial of a neighbor's child. these people were so poor they could scarsely gather together enough clothes to cover the child.
Her husband was called to go on a mission in England and Wales, leaving her with 4 children and 50 pounds of flour in the house. The only help she had was her oldest son and it was necessary that she go with him to the fields to help with the plowing. The next year the grasshoppers came and took all their crops. By walking up and down the rows fighting the grasshoppers she saved a small patch of corn. When it was husked she ground it in a coffee mill and made bread for the family. this was the first bread they had tasted in months. They had been living on fish which she had procured from the lake.
It is told that one of her neighbors had planted a patch of potatoes on ground where a willow patch stood. When the potatoes came out of the ground, willows also sprounted all over the field making it impossible to dig the potatoes. Ann bargained with the neighbor to dig his potatoes on shares and thereby procured her supply for the winter.
At the time of the smallpox rage in Lehi, she vaccinated every child in town.
In the absence of her husband she was very industrious and persevering. Winter was coming on and with the children all barefoot, she did not know what she would do for something to cover their feet from the cold. One of the neighbor's oxen died and she asked permission to skin it. With the help of her son, she skinned the oxen and tanned the hide the best she knew how. She then made mocasins out of the skins for her children. When the mocasins became wet, they stretched to twice their size. She also made tallow candles from the oxen, which were used for lighting purposes.
At one time Ann walked from Lehi to Salt Lake City for a spool of thread which cost 50 cents a spool. These are only a few of the trials and hardships she passed through in the early pioneer days and while her husband was in the mission field.
Ann died at the age of 77 at Lehi, UT, leaving a posterity of 134 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She died as she had lived, a faithful Latter-Day-Saint, a true and devoted wife and mother and left many loved ones to mourn her loss.