1 / 13

The Life of Agnes Ann Callahan Rose

The Life of Agnes Ann Callahan Rose. Agnes Ann Callahan was the daughter of Thomas William Callahan and Lucinda Shipman Austin. She was born in the back of a wagon at Winter Quarters Nebraska, December 3, 1846, 4 months after father left with the Mormon Battalion.

norton
Download Presentation

The Life of Agnes Ann Callahan Rose

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Life of Agnes Ann Callahan Rose

  2. Agnes Ann Callahan was the daughter of Thomas William Callahan and Lucinda Shipman Austin

  3. She was born in the back of a wagon at Winter Quarters Nebraska, December 3, 1846, 4 months after father left with the Mormon Battalion. She didn't meet him until she was an adult

  4. She crossed the plains to Utah in 1848, at the age of 2, with her brother and mother in the Willard Richards Company. Willard Richards

  5. After a year of waiting for her father, Agnes' mom remarried to Jonathan Campbell and moved to N. Ogden.

  6. Agnes' family consisted of 18 by the time she married William Arnold Rose (age 21) at age 14.

  7. After a short time, they moved to Mendon for several years. Mining and freighting flourished and William was often away from home.

  8. While living in Mendon, Agnes Ann became the mother of 6 children.They then moved to Liberty, Weber County, then Fairfield, Tooele County (Camp Floyd) where 4 more kids were born.

  9. Agnes went to Park Valley to be near her mother, then Juab County where she spent the last 7-8 years of her life in the Tintic Mining District along the slope of Tintic Mountains

  10. Agnes Ann Callahan died while giving birth at age 38 to Olive Lucretia--our Great-Great Grandmother. She had been a mother of 16, 1 dying in infancy.

  11. Agnes is buried in an abandoned town called Diamond.On the face of her grave marker, you can see splattering of a bullet that someone shot at the marker in an attempt to destroy it

  12. "Besides caring for her own family, [Agnes Ann] helped others in sickness and sorrow and was in great demand. She was one who loved to do good."

More Related