Title: Notes
Text:
!SOURCES:
BIRTH: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records
DEATH: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records
BAPTISM: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records - Rebaptised 11 AUG
1878
ENDOW: FHL film #M183395 IGI 5018963 sheet 25 film 1553729
SEALED SPOUSE: Jane Clark IGI M183395 sheet 5852 film 183395
MARRIAGE: Jane Clark "Pioneers & Prominent Men of Utah"
John Sampson Hacking records in possession of Lola H. Fawlke in Orem, Utah.
NOTES:
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE: Compiled by Martha Wilcox Hacking.
Database: Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers,
Vols. 1-4
Ancestry.com
Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers,
volume 2
Name: John Sampson Hacking
Birth Date: 06 Sep 1835
Birth Place: Preston, Lancs, England
Parents: James and Jane Pearson Hacking
Death Date: 27 Jul 1917
Death Place: Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah
Arrival: 21 Jan 1851, James W. Cummings Co.
Spouse: Jane Clark
Marriage Date: 16 May 1856
Marriage Place: St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Spouse's Birth Date: 21 Feb 1839
Spouse's Birth Place: Preston, Lancs, England
Spouse's Death Date: 03 Mar 1913
Spouse's Death Place: Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah
John 's father was a cabinet maker by trade. He also
made violins. John
remembered playing one of his father's violins as a child. His father heard and
accepted the gospel but died before he could be baptized. His wife was baptized
that same year. John was just four when his father died. A year later his mother
remarried to a weaver and John was given the task of winding bobbins for his
stepfather. When he was seven he began working in the cotton mills. He and the
other apprenticed boys were allowed to work a half day and attend school a half
day, so he got three months schooling, but that was all. For many years, his
mother had wanted to come to America but didn't have the funds. In 1849 ,
James Jr., the oldest boy, had saved enough for the whole family to leave
England . By the time they reached New Orleans , their money was gone. The
two boys and their two sisters continued up river to St. Louis while their parents
and their young children stayed in New Orleans . The boys got work in the coal
pits. The rest of the family finally got to St. Louis and those who could, worked for
eighteen months until they saved enough to go west. After arriving in the Valley,
they settled in American Fork . In 1853 he was called to go to Fillmore . He
helped build the fort and the State Capitol building in Fillmore . He worked with
the Gunnison Surveyor Company, learning also medical knowledge that came in
handy many times. He was a miner, broke mules, farmer, blacksmith, Indian
fighter, doctor, merchant, watermaster, freighter, and anything else that was
needed. He was always active in the church and defended it with his life.
Children: James , b. 23 Dec 1856 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 28 Aug 1876 , Annie
Mariah Glines . D. 25 Mar 1927 , Vernal, Uintah, Utah . Harriet Armstrong , b. 14
Nov 1858 , Cedar Fort, Utah . D. 10 Feb 1944 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Phebe Ann , b.
8 Dec 1860 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 10 Oct 1881 , George Davis Merkley . D. 29
May 1934 , Vernal, Utah . Jane Elizabeth , b. 29 Mar 1863 , Cedar Fort, Utah .
Md. 10 Oct 1888 , George Henry Southam . D. 12 Jul 1890 , Ft. Duchesne, Utah .
Eleanor , b. 5 Mar 1865 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 17 Apr 1885 , Otto Alfred
Anderson . D. 21 Nov 1949 , American Fork, Utah . John Sampson , b. 23 Jul
1867 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. Mary Elizabeth Hall . D. 17 Sep 1947 , Vernal, Utah
. Henry Franklin , b. 28 Nov 1869 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 29 Oct 1895 , Martha
Elnora Wilcox . D. 26 Oct 1949 , Archer, Madison, Idaho . Charles Lorenzo , b. 18
Jan 1872 , Cedar Fort, Utah . D. 30 Jun 1896 , Lehi, Utah . Joseph Pearson , b. 5
Feb 1874 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 22 Jun 1898 , Carrie Claire Stringham . D. 31
Dec 1944 , Maeseer, Uintah, Utah . George Alfred , b. 5 Apr 1876 , Cedar Fort,
Utah . Md. 16 Jun 1900 , Frances Harriet Briggs . D. 13 Nov 1955 , Magrath,
Alberta, Canada . Mary Emily , b. 15 Apr 1878 , Cedar Fort, Utah . D. 30 Apr
1878 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Martha Caroline , b. 18 Mar 1880 , Cedar Fort, Utah .
Md. 27 May 1901 James Earl Cook . D. 27 Mar 1966 , American Fork, Utah .
Orson Ezra , b. 16 Sep 1882 , Cedar Fort, Utah . Md. 22 Feb 1901 , Ida Melvina
Brown . D. 29 Jan 1974 , Tooele, Utah . Thomas William , b. 15 Apr 1885 , Cedar
Fort, Utah . Md. 16 Oct 1912 , Keren Bingham . D. 7 Apr 1950 , Cedar Valley,
Utah . Donna Bird
Title: Cemetery Records
Text:
CEDAR FORT A SPECIAL HISTORY FROM
THE SACRED DUST OF CEDAR FORT'S TWO CEMETERIES
Compiled by Ronald S. Cook
02-01-04 NAME: John Sampson Hacking. CODES: AF,
FR, PW
BORN: 06 Sep 1835 Preston, Lancashire, England
DIED: 27 Jul 1917 Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah
PARENTS: Jane Pearson and James Hacking
SPOUSE: Jane Clark, married May 16, 1856
CHILDREN: James, Harriet Ambrosine, Phoebe Ann (Merkley), Jane Elizabeth
(Southam), Eleanor (Anderson), John Sampson, Henry Franklin, Charles Lorenzo, Joseph
Pearson, George Alfred/Albert, Mary Emily, Martha Caroline (Cook), Orson Ezra,
Thomas William
MARKER: Double upright granite marker approximately 4' high, 3' wide and
18" thick in good conditions. Inscription on the east side reads:
JOHN S. HACKING JANE CLARK HACKING
Sept 16, 1835 Feb 21, 1839
July 27, 1917 March 13, 1913
Also a sandstone marker approximately 3" tall and 6" wide facing east in good condition.
Inscription reads: J. S. H.
PIONEER: John Sampson Hacking with his mother and other members of his family
left England in 1849. They came to American through New Orleans and St. Louis. In
1851 they came to Utah in the Captain Gordon company. At sixteen he participated in
the Walker War then helped a survey team break their mules and worked his way to
California. From California he took a steamboat to the Isthmus of Panama, crossing it by
railroad, then by boat to the New York Harbor. From there he went to St Louis met his
childhood sweat heart, married her and then crossed th plans again in the Banks and then
the James Pearson Clark company arriving in the Salt Lake Valley September 27, 1856. A
pioneer who helped to build Cedar Fort.
HISTORY: John Sampson Hacking was born September 6, 1835 in Preston,
Lancashire, England, the son of Jane Pearson and James Hacking. He left England for
American in 1849, crossed the plains in 1851 in the Captain Gordon=s company, worked
his way to California, went by steamboat to Panama, crossed that country by train, sailed
to New York Harbor, traveled to St Louis to marry his childhood sweetheart, Jane Clark,
then crossed the plains again with his new wife in 1856 in the Banks and then the Pearson
Wagon Trains. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley September 27, 1856. All this before
he twenty-one and one month years old. After this he settle in Cedar Fort where he
worked and served the remainder of his life. He and his wife Jane the had fourteen
children, only one of which died in infancy.
John and his little sister Harriet wondered from home one day and stood shivering at a
corner watching the people hurrying past. Some of those passing noticed the forlorn
children and gave them pennies. Happily they took the pennies to mother, thinking how
pleased she would be, only to receive a severe scolding. AThat@ said their mother, Ais
begging, and my children must not beg.@
When about twelve years of age, John had an experience which reacted pleasantly for him
for some time. On his was to work one morning he saw a little girl break through the ice
into deep water while skating. Whether it was a pond in the park or a stream of water is
not known. John plunged in to rescue the child, and took her to her home nearby. On his
way home from work that afternoon he called at the home of the little girl he had saved,
to see if she was all right. He was overwhelmed with thanks and given a large slice of
bread spread thickly with butter. He could hardly believe his eyes. Never had he seen
butter so think. His mother=s method, when they were fortunate enough to have butter
was to spread it on the bread and then scrape of what she could leaving only a scant flavor
of butter. But this B Ammmmm,@ John said, He had never had tasted anything so good.
The grateful mother urged him to come often, and thereafter he enjoyed so many such
treats.
After arriving in Utah the first time he was called to go to Fillmore in 1853 to help build a
fort for protection against the Indians. He also helped to build the state capitol building at
Fillmore, which was at the time capitol of the state. He was one of a company of men
under Captain William Sidney Willes who was later sent to Fillmore to protect the
settlement during the Walker War. He joined the Captain John Gunnison survey party,
who had a contract from congress to survey for a railroad through Green and Grand River
valleys and west of the Wasatch Mountains. In 1854 he left with same group for
California. He had been hired to break mules, help put up officer=s tents and basically
take care of camp. One day as he was chopping wood the ax slipped in some way and cut
off three of his toes. He watched very closely while the doctor sewed the toes back on,
and the knowledge gained through this experience was of great value to him in his future
life. He also learned to set broken bones and there were many thinks given for setting a
broken arm or leg when there was not doctor around.
It was with this group that he worked his was to California and then went by way of
Panama to New York, St Louis and back across the plains again.
After Indian trouble had abated it was decided, maybe directed from Salt Lake, that the
partially completed rock fort be torn down. John Sampson paid $50.00 to not tear down
the west wall of the fort. It served as the east fence to his property and he wanted it to
remain. It was left in place and thanks to constant repairs by the Hacking family and
some others, that wall still stands today.
John Sampson Hacking died in Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah on July 27, 1917 at the age of 82.
(From Barnes Alma and Alice Adeline Southam Cook Family records - See also,
Peterson, Margery J., OUR ROOTS GROW DEEP - A History of Cedar Valley, 2nd ed.,
{American Fork, Utah 2003] "John Sampson Hacking", p 15:9 and 15:32)
OBITUARY CEDAR FORK (FORT) JOHN S. HACKING, AGED PIONEER,
PASSES AWAY
(Special Correspondence)
Cedar Fort, Aug 4 B The funeral of John S. Hacking was held here July ?. Bishop J.E.
Garn presiding, and Prest. Stephen L. Chipman of the alpine Stake assisting. Music was
furnished by Prof. J.E. Borhard, Miss Evans and Miss Williams all of Provo. The
speakers were J.E. Garn, Presit. Stephen L. Chipman and Prest. George H Brimhall of the
B.Y.U. All of them the character of the deceased. The floral offerings were many
and beautiful.
John Hacking was born in Preston Lancashire England, Sept. 16, 1835. His father died
when he was four years old leaving a widow and four small children in destitute
circumstances. In the year 1839 the family embraced the gospel, and the next year the
mother married John Fisher. When John S. Hacking was six years old he wound bobbins
for his grandfather who was a weaver and when he was seven years old he worked in the
cotton mill. When 11 years old he was chosen from among 360 boys to run the first self-
acting spinning machine ever made. The family migrated to America in 1849 and
reached Utah in 1851 locating first in American fork. John S. Hacking traveled much
and lived for short periods in various parts of the United States. At St. Louis he married
Jane Clark, May 15, 1855. In September of that year the young couple settled in Cedar
fort which was their home thereafter.
John S. Hacking held several local offices, and was watermaster for 53 years. He as a
veteran of the Black Hawk Indian War. His wife and three children preceded him in
death. He is survived by 11 children ? grandchildren and 53 great-grandchildren; also
a half brother, Moroni Fisher. (Deseret News, 4 August 1917:10)
Title: Notes
Text:
!SOURCES:
BIRTH: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records
DEATH: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records
BAPTISM: GHL film #025566 Cedar Fort Ward records - Rebaptised 11 AUG 1878
ENDOW: FHL film #M183395 IGI 5018963 sheet 25 film 1553729
SEALED SPOUSE: Jane Clark IGI M183395 sheet 5852 film 183395
MARRIAGE: Jane Clark "Pioneers & Prominent Men of Utah"
John Sampson Hacking records in possession of Lola H. Fawlke in Orem, Utah.
NOTES:
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE: Compiled by Martha Wilcox Hacking.
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