Daughter of George Andrew Smith and Sarah Hughes
Spouse of James England
Children: Katy, Rose Hannah, Hames Henry, George Albert, Sarah Jane, Willard Victor, Belle Harris, Minnie, Emma, Carlos Smith, Nellie Smith, Charles W, Lizzles Smith, Katy Mae, and Leona Smith



History of Rose Hannah Smith
Given by a daughter-Katy May Horn
Rose H. Smith, daughter of George Andrew Smith and Sarah Hughes Smith was born May 6, 1854 at Bermingham, England. Her parents joined the Church in England. Soon after they came to Salt Lake City, Utah with their 3 children. They came on the first train building the railroad in front as they traveled. (When she mentions 3 children, this means the 3 youngest unmarried children in the family.)1 My Mother was very young. I remember of her saying she had a silk dress and everyone thought they were very rich because of this. It was something for anyone to be able to afford a silk dress. They were well fixed but had to leave it all behind. They settled in Ogden, Utah. Grandpa Smith was quite a Church worker. Later he lost his eye sight and my other brother and sister had to lead him wherever he went. Grandma Smith took care of the sick but she was a cripple with a club foot. My Mother met my father and they were both very religious. They got married in the old endowment house in Salt Lake City on the 24th day of January 1870. My mother was not 16 and father was not 19 so they were quite young. They made their home in Plain City, Utah, and my mother's parents lived with them. My father went to California after two children were born to get a job in the gold mines. While he was there he was warned and at the same time my Mother was warned. She was with her parents in Plain City at the time. They had some pigs and she went to feed them. And she saw my father in his temple clothes standing by the pig pen. Of course this scared her and she screamed "Jim"! That was what she always called him. She ran to the house and told her parents and they said it was a warning. At that same time in California my father heard her voice. He was the only one in the mine at the time and he said the voice was plain. He ran out of the mine to see if she was there first as it caved in. He got on the train and returned to Plain City. He said he thought something had happened to her. When my father told him what had happened. They found out it was the same time that my Mother saw father at the pig pen. My mother was a wonderful cook but she learned it all after she was married as they always bought their meals cooked, when they were in England. So it was quite a different life for her. She worked with the sick all her life. She worked in the Rel. Society too. She always stayed with the family to take care of them while my father was working in the mission. They moved to Caleastia, Utah. From there to Preston, Idaho. She was raising her family all this time. They moved to Moreland Idaho, and also my father's brother John with his family. They were pioneers. There my father surveyed canals and my Mother cooked for men. Then they moved to Le Grande, Oregon, as you can see in my father's history. My father worked very hard in the beet field to help keep the family while on his mission. She was sustained 1st Counselor of the Relief Society in 1902 for a good many years. She used to take care of the Mother's when they had their babies. They all loved her and her work was done free. Doing this good deed our family was known all over the Southwestern mission field. My mother gave birth to 15 children, 14 living. All this family was baptized at the age of 8 and have their own endowments, are all workers in the Church.
My parents left Union and went to Burley, Idaho. My Mother got the deadly disease of Cancer of the womb and passed away the 15th day of April 1920 at Cove, Oregon where she was visiting with her children. She was buried in Burley, Idaho. Just before she died we thought she had gone for a space of time for she breathed very little. We were all by her bedside but one brother Willard, from Salt Lake City and a sister, Leona at Burley. She came to and talked very weak to my Father. My father was holding her hand and she told him she had been with the two children and a woman by the name of Alice Stoker. Father had been sealed to Alice with the consent of my mother after she (Alice) died; and my mother said Alice was taking care of these children and my father asked her if she felt resentful and she said, "no", she was very happy about it. But she said some of the family was holding her there. It seemed as if I could not spare my Mother, But I left for a day or two and it was at this time my Mother passed away. In the Union ward they have named the daughters of Pioneers, the Rose England Pioneer Club" It was organized in 1954. This history was told as I remember it. Written by May England Horn, a daughter of Rose Hannah Smith, written in 1955.


Relief Society Magazine pg 467.

Unusual Mothers.
Rose H. Smith England.

Cassia Stake.

Mother of Sixteen Children.

Mrs. Rose H. Smith England was born 6 May 1854, in Birmingham, England. She emigrated to America on a steamship, late in July, 1869. The steamer sank going back to England.

She crossed the plains on the first passenger train that came across in August, 1869. She married James England, January 24, 1870, in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City. They rode on the first passenger train that went from Ogden to Salt Lake City.

This family lived in juab county for eighteen years; Box Elder county, three years; Oneida county, Idaho, six years; Bingham county, Idaho, six years; Union county, Oregon, twelve years; and they now reside in Burley, Idaho.

Sister England has been an active Relief Society worker since she was seventeen years old, and ministers to the sick and afflicted. She is the mother of sixteen children- thirteen living at present and all married; has forty living grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Her health is good. She has lived on a farm all her life.

Obituary of Rose Hanna Smith England obtained from the Burley Bulletin, Tuesday April 20, 1920

Mrs. Rose Hanna England, wife of James England, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Baxter, in Cove, Oregon, April 15, 1920. She was 66 years old, and the mother of a large and happy family. Thirteen living children are left to mourn her death, and two preceded her.
Mrs. England's activities in church and community work made her loved and respected by all who knew her. A loveable and kindly disposition made many friends for her. She and her husband have made their home in Burley for the past five years.
She leaves the following children: Mrs. Rose H. Winn of Preston, Idaho, James H. England of Pocatello, George A. England of Burley, Mrs. Sarah J. Davis of Payson, Utah, W. V. England of Salt Lake, Mrs. Emma Baxter, Cove, Oregon, Charles S. England, Burley, Mrs. Nellie Robbins, Burley, C.W. England, Dubois, Mrs. Kattie May Horn, Medical Springs, Oregon, Mrs. Leona Larson, Burley.
The entire family was present at her bedside when the end came. Five sons and three daughters were present at the funeral services Sunday afternoon at the 1st ward meeting house. She is survived by 47 grandchildren.