Jayirvin's is the great great grandson of William A. (Bill) Hickman.
That's a long treck across the country for a
young man, on foot? Did he have a horse? He crossed the plains from Michigan to Montana and lived there 8 years circa 1863 befor going south to North Ogden where he met Lerona and married her on April 5, 1871. I just know what is written in Lerona's autobiography.
http://hickmansfamily.homestead.com/lerona.html One question leads us to another when we explore our genealogy.
The 1870 census has him in Blackfoot,
Deer Lodge, Montana working as a laborer, that's when he was up there
with Lerona. I have heard he lived befor that near in a cabin in the Bitteroots
near mountain men that lived in other cabins and took indian squaws for wives.
Jesse may have even have had an indian wife. He may have traveled down to Utah
to find a wife. The 1900 census has him in North ogden, Utah working as a
blacksmith after he married Lerona Vanderhoof.
Grandpa Shaw ranched out near Snowville, Utah and Onieda County Idaho, near grandma's father, Jesse
Vanderhoof's, ranch. I have heard that the road going in to the place was just over the Utah line and the other side was On Onieda County. My grandma
Betsy Grace (Vanderhoof) Shaw's
Betsy Grace Vanderhoof, December 22,
1884-October 22, 1964 -
sister, Edith Vanderhoof Hurd
and her husband Horton Hurd
also had a ranch near or on Jesse's place and lived
there until their death.
I have a good pictures of them in the
Shaw Vanderhoof photo album.
Jesse Vanderhoof left a good home in North, Ogden where he had been a blacksmith, raised horses and farmed alfalfa hay, to go out there
to "Sage Brush Hell".
At least one of his sons, Jesse Edward Vanderhoof thought he was crazy for going out there. All there was
sagebrush. they had to boil the water out of the creek for water to drink.
JIrvin's Mother Lerona Mary Shaw was named after
grandma Grace's sister Mary Lerona Vanderhoof, a grand daughter of William Adams
and Minerva Hickman, my great great great Grande parents.
Lerona Married Leroy "Roy" Showell in Malad,
Idaho in 1913. Lerona Mary Showell died
in 1952 just a year after I was born. I never bet her. My mom Lerona Mary Shaw was named after her. They were known as aunt Rona aunt May
Jay Irvin has read a letter written by his grandma Grace (Vanderhoof) Shaw. She wrote when she lived on the farm at
Snowville. They paint a picture
of a very lonely young woman. That was typical
of the farm women of the day. I think
that's why they moved to town (Ogden). My mother
told me while in Snowville, my grandpa
worked hard in the fields all day from sun up to sun
down. They would take him
lunch out in the field where he would
eat it and go back to work. Maybe that
was her uncle Zooty "Zotique
Perault," that she was
talking about. They were all hard working
farmers and my mom spoke fondly of
her Uncle Zooty saying he called her his "Little Dutch Girl".
JayIrvin continues... My great great grandma was, Lerona
Minerva (Hickman) Vanderhoof , 4th
of 8 children born to Minerva Wade
and William Adams Hickman.
Lerona, the first white child born
in Shambip, Rush Valley, now Tooele
County, Utah, was just 15 when she
married her husband, Jesse Lyman
Vanderhoof. Together they
had 15 children, beginning their family
in Montana before permanently returning
to Utah where they lived out the rest
of their lives. --- excerpt from: http://www.hickmansfamily.homestead.com/Lerona.html
Lerona Vanderhoof's children as follows
and many of them are in the photographs
and portraits within this web site:
Huldah Abigail Vanderhoof,
born May 31, 1872; Katharine Fidelia
Vanderhoof, born May 11,
1873; Sarah Emma Vanderhoof
(Sadie), born January 19, 1875;
Artamiscia Donna Vanderhoof,
born November 1, 1876; Jesse Edward
Vanderhoof, born March
12, 1878; Giles Edgar Vanderhoof,
born June 10, 1879; Jane Ellen
Vanderhoof, born December
21, 1880; Gilbert Henry Vanderhoof,
born October 6, 1882; Betsy Grace
Vanderhoof, born December
22, 1884; Warren William Adams
Vanderhoof, born July
25, 1885; May Lerona Vanderhoof,
born October 10, 1889; Edith Lillian
Vanderhoof, born July
12, 1892; Esther Irene Vanderhoof,
born October 12, 1893; Rebecca
Maud Vanderhoof, born
August 25, 1895; Joseph Francis
Vanderhoof, born March
6,1897 - death 1918.
There is a book written about my great
great grandpa William Adams Hickman
oldest son of
Edwin Temple Hickman and wife Elizabeth
Adams.
http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/wild.htm#ch8 Wild Bill Hickman and the Mormon Frontier by author Hope
A. Hilton.
My great great grandpa William
Adams Hickman was a Mormon polygamist.
At one time he had 10 wives. My grandma
Betsy Grace was born of his third wife,
Sally Minerva Wade.
There daughter Lerona Minerva Hickman was
JIrvin's
grandma Grace's mother.
Obituary for Lerona Hickman Vanderhoof:
Ogden Mrs. Lerona Hickman Vanderhoof, 83,
widow of Jesse L. Vanderhoof, died at
8:45 p.m. Saturday at the home of a daughter,
Mrs. Grace Shaw of 1165 Kiesel avenue,
of causes incident to age. She had been in
failing health for the past year.
Mrs. Vanderhoof was born January 12,
1856, the first white child born in the
Little Cottonwood area of Rush Valley in
Tooele county, a daughter of William and
Minerva Wade Hickman. She moved to
North Ogden with her parents when she
was but a child, where she was married
to Mr. Vanderhoof in 1869. They moved
to Missoula, Mont., where they fought Indians until they decided to return to North
Ogden to escape further trouble.
About 20 years ago they moved to
Snowville, where she had resided until
she came to stay with her daughter two
weeks ago. She was a member of the
L.D.S. church.
"Minerva (Wade) Hickman is buried in the Ben Lomond Cemetery located:
North Ogden, Weber County Address: 526 East 2850 North
Ogden. The headstone
does not mentions her maiden name, Wade. It reads Minerva W Hickman. She is buried about 50 yards South and about 30 Yards East of The Warren Wade and Barbara Woodland Headstone. Mary Ella's grave is next to Minerva's
grave. The headstone doesn't say Mary it only says Ella."
About Grandpa Shaw
From what my mother,
Lerona May Shaw born March 12, 1910
told me, after they moved to town grandpa,
Ernest Shaw got to drinking and
gambling with the city slickers and
they got most of the farm away from
him. He must have been wealthy at one
time. He owned property near 12 street
and Washington Boulevard in Ogden, Utah
. When the great depression hit they lost there house due to a mortgage.
He and grandma split up and he ended
up in a little stone house on 13th
Street close to 12th street. Grandma
(Mrs. Grace Shaw) was
able to purchase a house on 2 acres
of land at 1150 Kiesel Avenue
Grandpa rolled his own Prince
Albert cigarettes while sitting by the wood stove in his old stone house.
I always loved that stone house, he
had a huge raspberry patch in the yard.
I could walk down the rows and the
berry bushes were over my head. Mom
and I would always go over and pick
raspberries and she would preserve them.
Grandpa Shaw's rock
house was located at 1250 Grant Ave. Ogden, Utah.
Grandpa had a big nose,
all the Shaw's
did. My grandparents both ended up
in a rest home out in Roy, Utah.
That's where they passed away, out at Roy they called it, the Weber
County Convalescing Home. In those days when you got old your kids sent
you out to Roy. There death certificates list that as there last place
of residence. However they did not really do much living there.
Grandma had lost her marbles
by the time she was out there. She sometimes could not
recognize her own daughter but she seemed to recognize her own
husband. Mom said they passed each other in the hall out there and
smiled at each other.
Kate Vanderhoof right, resembles my
grandma Grace. They were sisters.
Historic photograph of Ethel, May, and, my grandma,
Betsy Grace Vanderhoof,
Eddie Vanderhoof holding baby,
Olean Vanderhoof. Kneeling is, Chester (Chet)
Archibald who married Cleo Vanderhoof,
Edd's sister. Far right
is Cleo Vanderhoof, sister to Eddie, daughter of Ethel and Warne Vanderhoof and granddaughter of Lerona Hickman Vanderhoof. Picture taken somewhere in Oregon we think.
William Warren Vanderhoof born 1885 married Ethel Cleotha Sparks 1907
in Stone, Oneida, Idaho. He died in McMinnville,
Yamhill, Oregon - 1968. notes: listed
in the WWI Civilian Draft Registration
in Oneida, ID. ss# 541-18-4914 UT WEBER
NORTH OGDEN PCT 1900 1910 & 1920
census Holbrook, Oneida, Idaho. more information...
Warren and Ethel Vanderhoof family album
The Vanderhoof people I have living in Oregon
in my records are: George W. Vanderhoof
born 1897 the son of George D.
Vanderhoof, son of Francis
H. Vanderhoof residing:(1860
Chester, Ottawa, Michigan. 1870 census
West Chehalan precinct, Yamhill, Oregon. 1900
census Star Pct, Malheur, Oregon. 1910
censuses Ontario & South Vale, Malheur,
Oregon 1920 census North Vale, Malheur,
Oregon - stock raiser) George D. Vanderhoof's
daughter Eva L. Vanderhoof
born in Oregon 1895.
Gilbert Vanderhoof
(1900 census Sievers Creek Pct., Clackamas,
Oregon. Logger 1910 census Bull Run,
Clackamas, Oregon. general farmer Laborer)
Jesse Vanderhoof born
1901 Oregon (1910 census Bull Run,
Clackamas, Oregon.) John Vanderhoof
born 1875 Oregon (1900 census
Sievers Creek Pct, Clackamas, Oregon
1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas, Oregon.
Mail Carrier) Lela Vanderhoof
born 1903 (1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon.) Lilly Vanderhoof
born 1908 (1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon.) Nichalis Vanderhoof
b 1908 (1900 Sievers Creek Pct, Clackamas,
Oregon 1910 census Bull Run, Clackamas,
Oregon - hired man farm laborer - 1920
census Bull Run precinct, Clackamas, Oregon -
farmer) Tracy Vanderhoof
b 1880 (1900 census Sievers Creek Pct,
Clackamas, Oregon. 1910 census Bull
Run, Clackamas, Oregon. farm laborer.
1920 census Bull Run precinct, Clackamas,
Oregon - laborer lumber mill)
Grandpa Ernest Shaw's grandfather John Shaw, and families, and
his father Ambrose, were among the first pioneer settlers in the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Latter know as Utah.
My grandpa Shaw's father was early Utah pioneer and settler, Ambrose Shaw the son of Mormon pioneer John Shaw and Poly
Maria (Fox) Shaw.
Ambrose Shaw was a pioneer coming
to Utah by a wagon train part of the
Spencer Eldredge Company
in 1847 taking part in the Mormon migration from Illinois
to Iowa then Utah.
He married
Pamela Dunn just before their exodus
with the Mormon Pioneers to Utah.
He was later married
to
Mrs.
Minerva Pease Stone
on January 1, 1875. His early house
was built on a hill where the LDS Mound
Fort Ward is now. It was then
known as Mound
Fort.
Ambrose migrated west with the Mormons
but never joined the church until about
a year before his death.
My aunt Bev told me Ambrose got mad at the
Mormons.
His father, John Shaw, resided
at Victor until 1825 when he moved
to Bennington, New York. In 1842 he
became a member of the Latter Day Saints
Church. He was baptized by Elder Sweet.
In 1843-1844, he moved with most of
his family to Laharp, Hancock County,
Illinois. In 1845 John and Maria were
endowed in the New Latter day saints
Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1846
they moved with the exodus of saints
to Council Bluffs, Iowa, then known
as Kanesville. In 1848, they moved
to the "Valleys of the Mountains" in
Lorenzo Snow's Company.
When nearing
the end of their journey at Weber River,
his Company received orders to await
the arrival of President
Brigham Young's company.
On their arrival, both companies
continued on to the Great Salt Lake
Valley, arriving at Great Salt Lake
City which it was then called; Valley
of the Mountains, September 20, 1848.
In 1978 an article appeared in
the Ogden Standard Examiner written
by William Terry about my great grandpa
Ambrose Shaw...
In a small village of Victor, New York
about 10 miles south of Hill Cumorah
Ambrose Shaw, a Utah Pioneer of 1847,
was born September 12, 1825.
His parents, John and Polly Maria Fox Shaw
, left New York state when
Ambrose was in his teens and settled
in Illinois for a time. It is interesting
to note that his parents joined the Mormon
church but none of their children
were baptized at that time.
When the saints were driven from Illinois
in 1846,
John and Polly Shaw and four
of their sons started west with them
while three other sons and a daughter
settled in Illinois and Iowa. As the
refugees traveled westward and they
had picked a spot to camp for the night,
they would clear a place to not only
pitch their tents or other coverings
but they also cleared a place where
they could play games, dance and sing.
Among the members of their company
was the family of James and Sally
Dunn
with their beautiful 16 year old daughter
Pamela.
Pamela and Ambrose were married on
June 22, 1846, near Mt. Pisgah, Iowa.
Ambrose and Pamela's parents fitted
them out with an ox team, a wagon and
supplies for the trip across the plains.
They joined the second company to start
for the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, arriving
in the Weber Valley in September 1847.
In the same company was Lorin Farr
who was only four years older than
Ambrose. These two later became very
good friends and co-workers in Ogden.
...
continued on separate page -->
On March 3rd 1886 there was a horrible
fire at the Shaw House at Mound Fort
Settlement just north of Ogden city.
Two girls were burned to death ages
14 and 6. One was Ambrose's daughter.
Read the account printed in the Deseret
Evening News.
1886_house-fire.pdf
JIrvin's great grandpa Ambrose Shaw helped build
Farr's Fort
Weber County, Utah has a monument with
g-g grandpa's name on it: Marker at
1049 Canyon Road – Farr's Fort
Across Mill Creek is the location of
the five acre Farr's Fort. It was erected
in 1850 by Lorin Farr, Ezra Chase,
Ambrose Shaw,
John Shaw, Charles Hubbard,
and other settlers to protect themselves
from Indian attacks. The fort was enclosed
on the east, south, and west by houses
joined end to end and facing inward.
The spaces between the houses were
picketed with poles and extending upward
some 12 feet. The north wall was never
completed. Nearly all the settlers
on the north side of the Ogden River
lived in this fort at one time. Lorin
Farr moved into town in 1853 and shortly
thereafter the fort was abandoned.
The land is now owned by a grandson
of Lorin Farr, R. Kenneth Farr.
The Farr fort was designed to enclose
all the territory within what is now
Wall and Madison Avenues (1940), and
21st and 28th Streets. Soon after 1858
Ogden ceased to be a small frontier
town huddled within its fort walls.
Eventually the walls had completely
disappeared. The population of Ogden
City in 1860 was 1,464 people, 323
more than the total population of the
entire county ten years earlier.
More about
Farr's Fort > | more about
Lorin Farr >
Myrtillo Shaw (John Shaw's brother) built his house in the corner
of Farr's Fort in 1850.
In the spring
of 1849 Ambrose Shaw
and his wife moved
to the Ogden River, locating on the
north side of the river where he built
one of the first three houses
north of Ogden River. Here he raised a crop of corn and wheat, the corn
being the first raised in what is now
known as Weber County.
There were at this time
but five families as far north as Ogden
River. They were the Browns, Sheldons
and Burch families on the south and
Chase Hubbard and Ambrose and William Shaw on the
north.
Here too, he helped
to construct the first irrigation ditch
in Weber county. Other
ditches were named after local citizens, Enoch
Farr's Ditch, the Stone Ditch (named
for Amos P. Stone), and the Tracy - Shaw
Ditch (named after Moses Tracy and
Ambrose Shaw). See Ogden pioneer ditches .
In 1850 Ambrose Shaw
built a log cabin in
Farr's Fort and moved into it. This cabin being the second from the southeast corner of the Fort in the south row
of houses the first house west of the
Lorin Farr residence. There were about
60 families, 250 souls; living in the
Fort in the winter of 1850-1851. In 1852-1853, Ambrose Shaw moved to what was known as Mound Fort located on
the north side of what is now 12th
Street and on the west side of Washington Avenue in Ogden Utah. Continued on page 7 of the
Shaw genealogy papers -->.
JIrvin Family History
JIrvin is a descendant of Ezekiel Hadley and John Shaw.
Ezekiel Hadley born 1752 in Halesowen, England.
Ezekiel's son William Hadley born 1778 in Halesowen, Worcestershire County, England had a son named Thomas E. Hadley born 1824 in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England
. Thomas E. Hadley was my great great grandfather and his son
Joseph Ellsworth Hadley was my
grandfather. He migrated to Brigham City, Utah when he was 9 years old from
Berkshire, MA.
His wife Dagmar Rasmussen was of Danish decent.
Because his ancestors were Mormon there is much history to be found
about them. Many immigrants to early Brigham City (Box Elder County)
were of Danish Decent brought over by Mormon Missionaries.
Hadley Family History
My grandpa on my father's side was
Joseph Ellsworth Hadley.
born, August 19th 1869 in East Lanesboro
Mass. To Thomas Hadley & Elizabeth
Griffith Hadley. Thomas Hadley was born Dec 31
1824 in Smethwick, Stafford England,
and married Nov 4 1846 in Warwick England.
Joseph E. Hadley's son, my dad, Irvin Joseph Hadley, was born in September 26 1900 in Brigham City, Utah.
My grandma on my father's side was Dagmar Rasmussen Hadley
She was born in 1868 in Copenhagen,
Denmark and died 1947, 4 years before
I was born.
She was a wonderful, kind woman on
earth and truly an amazing spirit.
After Irv and Lerona were married
May l943 in Farmington,
Utah. My dad and mom lived in grandma
Grace Shaw's trailer court right after they were married.
Dad was a fisherman and mom was his fishing partner long before I came along.
Just about every picture I have that dad took had to do with
fishing.
Jrvin met Kathryn Zadrozny in 1973 she lived
in Kaysville, Utah at the time. Her mother owned and lived in a
historic Victorian style house there. One day we went out to
Centerville to see her horses. Her mother Ruth (Pence) Hunter
married a James Pack Hunter and they had bought these horses at
that time. Kathy was the best thing that ever happened to me in
my life. I was often told by friends and acquaintances how hard
it was to find a women that would go out to the mountains and
deserts and live like we did. It was a miracle I found her. We
have been married for 38 years.
JIrvin's mother Lerona Hadley
was a seamstress
in Ogden. She worked at the Utah Tailoring
Mills formerly the Ogden Utah Knitting Company.
She quit there when he was born and returned after
he was grown. She worked hard
there many years for not much over
minimum wage about $1.65 at one time.
There was no health care no retirement.
Beuller and Bingham owned the company
and they got rich by not paying the
employees very well. I remember mom
telling me she got a nickel an hour
raise one time. It was monotonous work
sitting behind a sewing machine for
30 years. Mom used to tell me.
"You try sitting behind a sewing machine
for 30 years"!
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Web page last updated: September 28 2011.