COLE Sons of William George COLE Sr.1815-1890 and Sarah Larnder 1813-1884

from L to R:  Walter Charles COLE Sr.1848-1900, George COLE 1846-1919, William George COLE Jr.1842-1899, Erastus Moroni COLE 1852-1918.

Other children:

Elizabeth Sarah COLE ALLEN 1838-1906

Eliza COLE CRESSALL HAWKES 1840-1905

Sarah Ann COLE 1844-1847

Lorenzo COLE 1850-1851

Symaria COLE

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 Sarah LARNDER COLE

 William George COLE

Taken from the "Life History of Charles Clinton Allen.

[Son of Frederick Charles Allen.  Frederick was the son of John Allen and Elizabeth Cole. Elizabeth Cole Allen was the oldest daughter of William George Cole and Sarah Larnder.] 

My paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Cole Allen—born April 19, 1938—in Poplar Parrish, Middlesex, England. Her father and mother—George William Cole and Sarah Lander Cole, joined the Latter-day Saint Church and decided to come to Salt Lake City and so booked passage for the family in 1863, on the Amazon. When they boarded the ship, they found that not all of them could go aboard as there wasn’t room. So, Elizabeth and her sister Eliza were forced to take passage on another ship. It sailed, as did the Amazon, but the Amazon sprang a seam and had to return to port. It was a year before it was mended and they could sail. Charles Dickens had written some unsatisfactory comments about the Mormons and so he decided to visit the Amazon and have a look for himself at the Mormons. He changed his mind and wrote some very flattering things about the members on the ship. He recorded it and published it in “Mr. Uncommercial.” Eliza had married a Mr. Cressoll and had a four or five-month old baby. Her husband would have nothing to do with the church and so she left him and came with my grandmother. They arrived in New Orleans and found the Amazon had been delayed so they went up the Mississippi and came to Utah. They had to walk almost 800 miles and carry the baby with them. John Allen had been assigned to make trips and help the trains to Utah. He met Elizabeth Cole and they were married and settled in Goshen, Utah. Eliza succeeded in finding work in Salt Lake to support her and her child. A little later, she met a widower—a Mr. Hawkes—from Logan and married him. They settled in Logan. The rest of the family came the next year and also settled in Logan.

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ELIZA COLE Excerpts from A Sketch of the Life of Sarah Lardner Cole By Glanda C. Landon Submitted by Mary Dennis Poulter

These excerpts are taken from the time the Cole Family was preparing to leave England to follow the Saints to Utah. . . . Beautiful young Eliza had fallen in love with a handsome young man named Paul Cressall. Like many young Englishmen, he was a sailor for the Royal Navy . . . (sentence missing) was “queen of the Seas.” Their first child Ellenor was born December 13 1858 but had died early in 1859. This was a sorrow also for Sarah (Eliza’s mother) and her husband to lose their first little grandchild. Having lost three of their own little ones in infancy, they grieved for and with Eliza in her loss. Two years later Eliza’s second child, little Clarence Cressall, arrived on December 13, 1861, and no doubt he was a great joy to all the family. Unfortunately, Eliza’s husband Paul was never interested in Mormonism, the religion that meant so much to her and her family. As the Coles prepared to leave England, they faced the prospect of never seeing Eliza and her baby again. The Cole Family booked passage on the Amazon, expecting to sail for America early in 1862. As the sailing date drew near, the other members begged Eliza to come with them. Sarah’s heart must have ached with her daughter’s over this decision, for it would be difficult for Eliza whichever choice she made. At the last moment Eliza was persuaded to go too. (Many years later Eliza told her daughter-in-law that she “. . .left her love in England to join the Saints in Zion and to be with her parents and brothers and sister.” (Mitton, Jessie Cressal, Life of Clarance C. C. Cressal, unpub. Manuscript and letters to Glenda Landon dated Dec. 2, 1977 and Aug. 20, 1979.) At that late date the Amazon was booked full and could take no more passengers, so Elizabeth offered to go on another ship with Eliza and her baby. The two girls, Elizabeth, then 24; Eliza, 22;and baby Clarence, just 4 months old, embarked from London on the John J. Boyd sailing vessel on April 23, 1862, expecting the remainder of their family to leave about the same time and meet them in New York. However, the Amazon was delayed for repairs, and it was actually more than a year before it set sail for America. The girls’ journey took more than five months of travel; they had to walk the last 1000 miles and carry the baby. By the time they arrived in Utah, Sept. 24, 1862, baby Clarence was nine months old. . . . . . As the young women crossed the plains in the previous summer Elizabeth had become acquainted with one of the teamsters, John Allen, a young Englishman who was helping that company of converts make the trip to Utah. A romance developed between them during the journey, and a few days after the wagon train reached Utah, John and Elizabeth were married in Goshen, September 28, 1862. They settled in a log home there in Goshen, a small colony about 60 miles south and west of Salt Lake City. Eliza had remained in Salt Lake City for about 2 months and found some work in homes to provide for herself and baby. While there she met a young Englishman, Francis Hawkes, who was also born in London and who had come to Utah nine years earlier. He had married and settled in Logan, Cache Valley, about 90 miles north of Salt Lake. His wife and baby had both died at childbirth, so he was lonely, too. He and Eliza were married November 23, 1862. They then went to live in the new settlement of Logan where he had a small home. He was a good, kind man and a loving father to her son, little Clarence who was nicknamed Cal.

Mormon Trail - English Saints - Eliza COLE

Mormon Pioneer ancestor of Camilla SMITH WOOD CR - Sixth Generation Eliza Cole (1840-1905) and Francis Hawkes m. 1862 Eliza traveled with her infant son Clarence Christopher Cressall and her older sister Elizabeth Sarah COLE (ALLEN)

English Saints England / Logan, UT Eliza Cole age 22 / b. 1840 Poplar Branch, London, ENG - d. 1905 Logan, UT - buried Logan, UT / Spouse 2-Francis Hawkes, 9 children, and raised Clarance Cressall / other possible spouse 1-Sea Captain Cressall, father of Clarence Christopher Cressall Hawkes. Family traditon states Eliza was not married to Captain Cressall although she had two children with him. The Captain was lost at sea. Eliza COLE was the daughter of William George Cole and Sarah Larnder. BAPTIZED: England 1848 Eliza Cole and her infant son traveled with her older sister Elizabeth. Elizabeth Sarah Cole married John Allen on the plains. BY SEA: 1862 ship ‘John J. Boyd’ John J. Boyd information: U.S. / 1311 ton Mater: J. H. Tomas Depart Liverpool: Apr. 23, 1862 Arrive New York: June 1 1862 39 days of passage Leader: J. S. Brown 702 LDS passengers (Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 6, p.43) This voyage of the John J. Boyd, with her 702 emigrants aboard, was somewhat longer than usual because of high ocean winds, but Captain J. H. Thomas finally brought her safely into port at New York on Sunday morning, June 1, 1862, from whence the company proceeded westward to Florence, Nebraska. (An Enduring Legacy, Volume Three, p.373) Left Liverpool, England, for the United States on April 18, 1862, on the John J. Boyd, with Captain James S. Brown in charge of the Saints. They were six weeks and three days on the ocean. After traveling to their designated place of departure across the Plains, they were forced to await the arrival of the teamsters with their ox teams who would transport their belongings and carry the supplies necessary to complete the trip. BY LAND: 1862 Homer Duncan Company Departure: 22 July 1862 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 21-24 September 1862 Cole, Eliza (22) Cressall, Clarence Christopher (infant) son of Eliza Cole, Elizabeth Sarah (24) sister of Eliza Pioneer Information: By sea and by land Eliza traveled with her infant son and her older sister. Company Information: About 500 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha). Source of Trail Excerpt: Deseret News [Weekly], 13 Aug. 1862, 54.  Read Trail Excerpt: FLORENCE, 16th July, 1862. EDITOR DESERET NEWS: DEAR SIR:—Presuming that a few items of news, concerning the emigration across the plains this season, may not be unacceptable to your readers, I pen a short detail of my journey with one of the church trains: To begin with the roads:—they were (in consequence of the late opening of spring and the great and almost unprecedented rise of the streams on the route) of the very worst description during the early part of the journey; the wagons frequently, particularly between the Little Mountain and Echo kanyon [Canyon], were running upon their hubs, and going through water often above the wagon beds. At Yellow creek we found the streams so much swollen that it covered the entire valley through which it runs from bluff to bluff; and again at Ham’s Fork, it was still worse. At both these places we had to unload our wagons, conveying the loads over on rafts, or in a boat, and taking the empty wagons through with the teams, and at the latter place having to float the wagons across and swim the teams; but Mormon patience, energy and perseverance, triumphed over every obstacle; yet, I will say that it is my firm conviction that no other people would have gone through under such difficult and trying circumstances, without pause or hesitation; in fact, making nothing but sport of laboring all day in the water and mud, sometimes to their knees, sometimes to their waist, and occasionally going out of sight. Captain H[omer]. Duncan, in charge of our train, was equal to every emergency, invariably taking the lead himself in going into water or mud and the boys were ever ready and willing to follow. The emigration westward this season is very great. Somewhere about two thousand two hundred wagons passed us between Ham’s Fork and Loup Fork ferry, averaging about five souls to each wagon, which will make eleven thousand, independent of our own emigration, which is also very large this season; I presume over five thousand. You have probably heard of the accident which happened to our highly esteemed friend and brother, J. W. Young, during the storm of the 8th instant. by the blowing over of some wagon boxes, which were piled up, but not secured. His chest was badly bruised, his head and nose also cut rather severely; but I am happy to say he is now able to be about again and recovering rapidly. Two men were unfortunately killed in one of the camps of English Saints Elder Whitall, late of the Millennial Star office, Liverpool, and another brother from England. At Wood river, I counted fourteen telegraph poles shattered by the lightening on the same occasion, and a horse killed. On the 3d of July we passed Capt. Lewis Brunson’s company of Saints, consisting of thirty-six wagons, about ten miles west of Buffalo creek, being the first train of the season for Utah. A train of forty-six wagons, under Capt. Wareham, passed us on the 13th ult., and another left on the 14th—all independent companies. The other companies will now be leaving in rapid succession, until all have started. Capt. Duncan’s train reached here about noon on the 14th, and Capt. Murdock’s about two hours afterwards Capt. Horn’s train is expected to-day, and Capt. Harmon’s to-morrow or next day, and the others in a day or so afterwards. The Saints have all arrived here, with the exception of a small company of Swiss expected by the next boat. Capt Duncan is loading up to-day with English Saints, and will start in two or three days. The missionaries who have arrived here are well generally. Elders Rich and Lyman are here; also Elders McAllister, Stainer and Adams, returning missionaries, with a few others whose names I do not know. We expect to leave for New York en route for our fields of labor in a few days. M. MCCUNE. Cole, Eliza, 1862, NA, NA, Marriage in Deseret News December 24 1862 Vol XII. No. 26 microfilm 26589 Cole, Eliza, 1862, NA, John J. Boyd, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175575 25691 Cole, Eliza, 1862, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Cole, Clarence, 1862, NA, John J. Boyd, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175575 25691 Cole, Elizabeth, 1862, NA, Homer Duncan, Deseret News Vol. 12 p. 93 microfilm 26589 Cole, Elizabeth, 1862, NA, NA, Perpetual Emigration Fund (Book)-Microfilm 25686 Cole, Elizabeth S., 1862, NA, John J. Boyd, Ship roster on microfilm(s) 175575 25691

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