Salt Lake Cemetery record lists her as Martha R. BROWITT. Buried 1 November 1904.
Born in the Hamlet of Tewksbury at Barton Street. Daughter of Martha Pullham and Thomas Browett. Christened 16 Oct 1825.
Baptized into the LDS Church, March 1840 by Apostle Wilford Woodruff. Sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans with her brother, Daniel and the Harris and Bloxham families aboard the ship Echo. The ship manifest of 16 February 1841 listed her as a "seamstress".
Upon arriving at Nauvoo, she resided with her brother and his wife, Elizabeth Harris Browett. Because of the persecution of the Saints in 1845-46, they prepared to migrate west.
Her brother Daniel and Robert Jr. Harris left with the Mormon Battalion march in the War with Mexico. Family lore has it that Martha was sealed to Apostle Orson Hyde to insure her celestial future should she perish before reaching the Salt Lake Valley. At 26, she was considered a "spinster" and he was 14 years older. Nauvoo endowment: 17 Dec. 1845, sealing 11 Jan. 1846. They excaped across the Mississippi within days. Apostle Hyde spent the next year on a mission in England.
Migrating to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, sickness was ever with her. In April of 1850, their only child, a daughter she named Adella Marie, was born and lived only three months. Hyde was often absent on church business.
Days after the death of this daughter, Hyde left for Salt Lake City with a fast moving group of three other men in July. Martha was downcast, realizing that Orson's duties demanded almost more energy than he possessed. As her health declined after the baby's death, they both decided to be released from their marriage vows.
When his decision was made to leave her with Elizabeth and her other sisters-in-law at Winter Quarters, Martha obtained an annulment of the marriage.
On 9 December of that year, Martha married widower, Thomas McKenzie, who had three children who had been motherless since August. It is recorded that Orson Hyde performed the marriage ceremony. In 1852, the McKenzies came to the Utah valley with the John B. Walker Wagon Company, taking three long months to arrive.
After reaching the Salt Lake Valley, she divorced McKenzie 26 October 1852, and resided primarily in Salt Lake City. She continued to work as a seamstress, preparing many garments for opera productions and those in high society.
She once told family members that she especially prospered by sewing for "ladies of the evening" because they preferred their under garments very fancy and the seams of their "frocks" to be finished as lovely on the inside as they were on the outside, because they were often "viewed from the inside"! They were willing to pay for lace, french seams and other detailed hand work!
In 1880, she was residing as a "lodger" in the home of Sarah Brower Beitler and her husband, Jacob Gibson III, along with their three children at Sugar House, Salt Lake County.
It is not know if she worked for, or roomed with, the Gillette family, but she was buried in the Gillette Family Lot at "City Cemetery", now known as Salt Lake City Cemetery, SL, Utah. Her last know address at the time of her death was, "Rear - 542 8th Street, Salt Lake City, SL, Utah." Her roommate, who was the informant on Martha's Death Certificate, was Mrs. Sarah Pearson.
Note: Six other children, later added as children of Orson Hyde, all born in Denmark, are attached to Martha on the family search website. However, they are not her children; she was never in Denmark and had no other children after 1850.
Born in the Hamlet of Tewksbury at Barton Street. Daughter of Martha Pullham and Thomas Browett. Christened 16 Oct 1825.
Baptized into the LDS Church, March 1840 by Apostle Wilford Woodruff. Sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans with her brother, Daniel and the Harris and Bloxham families aboard the ship Echo. The ship manifest of 16 February 1841 listed her as a "seamstress".
Upon arriving at Nauvoo, she resided with her brother and his wife, Elizabeth Harris Browett. Because of the persecution of the Saints in 1845-46, they prepared to migrate west.
Her brother Daniel and Robert Jr. Harris left with the Mormon Battalion march in the War with Mexico. Family lore has it that Martha was sealed to Apostle Orson Hyde to insure her celestial future should she perish before reaching the Salt Lake Valley. At 26, she was considered a "spinster" and he was 14 years older. Nauvoo endowment: 17 Dec. 1845, sealing 11 Jan. 1846. They excaped across the Mississippi within days. Apostle Hyde spent the next year on a mission in England.
Migrating to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, sickness was ever with her. In April of 1850, their only child, a daughter she named Adella Marie, was born and lived only three months. Hyde was often absent on church business.
Days after the death of this daughter, Hyde left for Salt Lake City with a fast moving group of three other men in July. Martha was downcast, realizing that Orson's duties demanded almost more energy than he possessed. As her health declined after the baby's death, they both decided to be released from their marriage vows.
When his decision was made to leave her with Elizabeth and her other sisters-in-law at Winter Quarters, Martha obtained an annulment of the marriage.
On 9 December of that year, Martha married widower, Thomas McKenzie, who had three children who had been motherless since August. It is recorded that Orson Hyde performed the marriage ceremony. In 1852, the McKenzies came to the Utah valley with the John B. Walker Wagon Company, taking three long months to arrive.
After reaching the Salt Lake Valley, she divorced McKenzie 26 October 1852, and resided primarily in Salt Lake City. She continued to work as a seamstress, preparing many garments for opera productions and those in high society.
She once told family members that she especially prospered by sewing for "ladies of the evening" because they preferred their under garments very fancy and the seams of their "frocks" to be finished as lovely on the inside as they were on the outside, because they were often "viewed from the inside"! They were willing to pay for lace, french seams and other detailed hand work!
In 1880, she was residing as a "lodger" in the home of Sarah Brower Beitler and her husband, Jacob Gibson III, along with their three children at Sugar House, Salt Lake County.
It is not know if she worked for, or roomed with, the Gillette family, but she was buried in the Gillette Family Lot at "City Cemetery", now known as Salt Lake City Cemetery, SL, Utah. Her last know address at the time of her death was, "Rear - 542 8th Street, Salt Lake City, SL, Utah." Her roommate, who was the informant on Martha's Death Certificate, was Mrs. Sarah Pearson.
Note: Six other children, later added as children of Orson Hyde, all born in Denmark, are attached to Martha on the family search website. However, they are not her children; she was never in Denmark and had no other children after 1850.
Salt Lake Cemetery record lists her as Martha R. BROWITT. Buried 1 November 1904.
Born in the Hamlet of Tewksbury at Barton Street. Daughter of Martha Pullham and Thomas Browett. Christened 16 Oct 1825.
Baptized into the LDS Church, March 1840 by Apostle Wilford Woodruff. Sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans with her brother, Daniel and the Harris and Bloxham families aboard the ship Echo. The ship manifest of 16 February 1841 listed her as a "seamstress".
Upon arriving at Nauvoo, she resided with her brother and his wife, Elizabeth Harris Browett. Because of the persecution of the Saints in 1845-46, they prepared to migrate west.
Her brother Daniel and Robert Jr. Harris left with the Mormon Battalion march in the War with Mexico. Family lore has it that Martha was sealed to Apostle Orson Hyde to insure her celestial future should she perish before reaching the Salt Lake Valley. At 26, she was considered a "spinster" and he was 14 years older. Nauvoo endowment: 17 Dec. 1845, sealing 11 Jan. 1846. They excaped across the Mississippi within days. Apostle Hyde spent the next year on a mission in England.
Migrating to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, sickness was ever with her. In April of 1850, their only child, a daughter she named Adella Marie, was born and lived only three months. Hyde was often absent on church business.
Days after the death of this daughter, Hyde left for Salt Lake City with a fast moving group of three other men in July. Martha was downcast, realizing that Orson's duties demanded almost more energy than he possessed. As her health declined after the baby's death, they both decided to be released from their marriage vows.
When his decision was made to leave her with Elizabeth and her other sisters-in-law at Winter Quarters, Martha obtained an annulment of the marriage.
On 9 December of that year, Martha married widower, Thomas McKenzie, who had three children who had been motherless since August. It is recorded that Orson Hyde performed the marriage ceremony. In 1852, the McKenzies came to the Utah valley with the John B. Walker Wagon Company, taking three long months to arrive.
After reaching the Salt Lake Valley, she divorced McKenzie 26 October 1852, and resided primarily in Salt Lake City. She continued to work as a seamstress, preparing many garments for opera productions and those in high society.
She once told family members that she especially prospered by sewing for "ladies of the evening" because they preferred their under garments very fancy and the seams of their "frocks" to be finished as lovely on the inside as they were on the outside, because they were often "viewed from the inside"! They were willing to pay for lace, french seams and other detailed hand work!
In 1880, she was residing as a "lodger" in the home of Sarah Brower Beitler and her husband, Jacob Gibson III, along with their three children at Sugar House, Salt Lake County.
It is not know if she worked for, or roomed with, the Gillette family, but she was buried in the Gillette Family Lot at "City Cemetery", now known as Salt Lake City Cemetery, SL, Utah. Her last know address at the time of her death was, "Rear - 542 8th Street, Salt Lake City, SL, Utah." Her roommate, who was the informant on Martha's Death Certificate, was Mrs. Sarah Pearson.
Note: Six other children, later added as children of Orson Hyde, all born in Denmark, are attached to Martha on the family search website. However, they are not her children; she was never in Denmark and had no other children after 1850.
Born in the Hamlet of Tewksbury at Barton Street. Daughter of Martha Pullham and Thomas Browett. Christened 16 Oct 1825.
Baptized into the LDS Church, March 1840 by Apostle Wilford Woodruff. Sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans with her brother, Daniel and the Harris and Bloxham families aboard the ship Echo. The ship manifest of 16 February 1841 listed her as a "seamstress".
Upon arriving at Nauvoo, she resided with her brother and his wife, Elizabeth Harris Browett. Because of the persecution of the Saints in 1845-46, they prepared to migrate west.
Her brother Daniel and Robert Jr. Harris left with the Mormon Battalion march in the War with Mexico. Family lore has it that Martha was sealed to Apostle Orson Hyde to insure her celestial future should she perish before reaching the Salt Lake Valley. At 26, she was considered a "spinster" and he was 14 years older. Nauvoo endowment: 17 Dec. 1845, sealing 11 Jan. 1846. They excaped across the Mississippi within days. Apostle Hyde spent the next year on a mission in England.
Migrating to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, sickness was ever with her. In April of 1850, their only child, a daughter she named Adella Marie, was born and lived only three months. Hyde was often absent on church business.
Days after the death of this daughter, Hyde left for Salt Lake City with a fast moving group of three other men in July. Martha was downcast, realizing that Orson's duties demanded almost more energy than he possessed. As her health declined after the baby's death, they both decided to be released from their marriage vows.
When his decision was made to leave her with Elizabeth and her other sisters-in-law at Winter Quarters, Martha obtained an annulment of the marriage.
On 9 December of that year, Martha married widower, Thomas McKenzie, who had three children who had been motherless since August. It is recorded that Orson Hyde performed the marriage ceremony. In 1852, the McKenzies came to the Utah valley with the John B. Walker Wagon Company, taking three long months to arrive.
After reaching the Salt Lake Valley, she divorced McKenzie 26 October 1852, and resided primarily in Salt Lake City. She continued to work as a seamstress, preparing many garments for opera productions and those in high society.
She once told family members that she especially prospered by sewing for "ladies of the evening" because they preferred their under garments very fancy and the seams of their "frocks" to be finished as lovely on the inside as they were on the outside, because they were often "viewed from the inside"! They were willing to pay for lace, french seams and other detailed hand work!
In 1880, she was residing as a "lodger" in the home of Sarah Brower Beitler and her husband, Jacob Gibson III, along with their three children at Sugar House, Salt Lake County.
It is not know if she worked for, or roomed with, the Gillette family, but she was buried in the Gillette Family Lot at "City Cemetery", now known as Salt Lake City Cemetery, SL, Utah. Her last know address at the time of her death was, "Rear - 542 8th Street, Salt Lake City, SL, Utah." Her roommate, who was the informant on Martha's Death Certificate, was Mrs. Sarah Pearson.
Note: Six other children, later added as children of Orson Hyde, all born in Denmark, are attached to Martha on the family search website. However, they are not her children; she was never in Denmark and had no other children after 1850.
Gravesite Details
Hyde marriage annulled, 1850, Md . Thomas McKenzie; SLC Cemetery Record shows last name of "Browitt".
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