Emma E. Hill was born June 22 1840 [1839][1]. Youngest daughter of William Hill and Ann Furr Hill. She was raised in a good home and did as other children went to school some but not much as school was not plenty full in those days as a young girl she worked at making hats by [???] braiding hats taking the straw and making hats for the people to were [wear] and only receiving meager wages and putting long hours; she was married to Nathan Groom on Easter Monday in Bedfordshire England[2] and they lived together 63 years and went to live in Chilton Green[3] were [where] three of her children was born[4] when he[r] first daughter was born she had a lot of nice dresses and she cut them up and made her pretty clothes as she was a good dress maker and always like to have her baby look very nice and she did her washing by putting her clothes in a long tub something like a bath tub only not so high and soaped each pice [piece] and rubed [rubbed] them in her two hands untill clean that was the crude way women had of washing in those days, when a young woman she had a nice voice and was a good singer and belong to the Babtis [Baptist] Church and sang in the choir for their conference Then she went to live in a place by the name of Kimpton were [where] she helped to run a beer parlour there her fourth child Harry was born were [where] some of her children atended kindergarden. She joined the L.DS. church after marrage and after this her husband left her and four children and went to Ireland and got work at Mager Melony [probably Major Maloney] as [h]is game keeper and he sent for them so she sold all their house old [household] goods and went and made her home their [there] for 18 month in a large home were [where] she had to kill all ducks chickins and turkeys for the Mager home she had to hold each one and bleed them untill they died and the end of 18 month they went back to England again and went to live in Manchester were [where] fifth child was born Percy and all of her children took the Wooping cough and the Doctor told her if she did not take them out into the country she would loose [lose] them all so they mooved again to a place named Ellenbrook were [where] her 4 husband went to work for Lord Ellesmere as [h]is gamekeeper were [where] they lived for a long time and the family again meet the L.D.S Elders and again joined the church again and some of her children were baptised Annie a[nd] Nathen again her husband wanted to moove again this time to Utah so she sent her son Henry first to a cousin in Utah that lived on Buttler hill bench this was quite a trial for her not knowing wether she would see him again and in one year her husbund left for Utah leaving her and three children alone to make there [their] living alone
Mother and children went to live in a place named Boothstown and mother and her two oldest children went to work to make their living working in a cotton mill in a year father sent for mother and one son Percy[5] but her oldest son was not very strong having some years before having a bad case of typhoid vever [fever] were [where] they lost two children one a year and ten month old and the other girl 13 years[6]
so a[n] Elder by the name of EJ. Wooley lent mother the money to bring Nathan along which was payed back later and her oldes[t] girl was still left in England mother worked hard to get the money to send for her daughter and after a year she was able to get the money and send for her[7] and the family was once all tother [together] again only the left two girls that was left in a grave in England the first year after Father rented a farm and it was a poor place and mother had a hard time making ends meet and her oldest son and daughter went to work at the paper mill which helped things and made things plesant after this she went to south cotton wood and farm were [where] they did fine and later went to Idaho Were [where] they went to farm in a place by the name of Lewesvill and when they had made a little money to make a start they went back on their home stead in Willow creek and she lived in a little log place were [where] you could stand up only in places untill they could build a better one and she went through all the hardships of pioneer life
she was 1 counsel [counselor] in the Relief Society at this place to Sister Barret
her home was allways neat and clean if it was a log house and her friends always loved to go and visit with her and she was a good Mother to her children and God bless her memory later her husband and son opened a store in what is now Ucon and Mother and a granddaughter run it a few years and she did Temple work for her pearents and brothers and sisters
as she got along in years her health was not so good and she could not do the things she liked to do
she lived to the good old age 88 years, 7 months and 13 days[8]
Notes:
Written in the margin of the document was this: "Annie Groom wrote this about her mother!"
[1]
Emma's
birthday was not in 1840, according to her birth certificate from the
General Register Office in London. It was a year
earlier, 22 June 1839. She was born in Offley,
Hertfordshire, England.
[2]
Emma and Nathan were married 28 March 1864 in the Anglican
parish church at Kings Walden, Hertfordshire, England, according to
their marriage certificate from the General Register Office in London.
Easter that year was 27 March 1864, so they must have been
married on the Monday after Easter Sunday.
[3]
More commonly known as Chiltern Green, it is about 3 miles
south of Luton in Bedfordshire.
[4]
Nathan and Emma's children are:
Revisions:
September, 2008: Added notes 1-8.
December, 1997: Transcribed by Matt Young from a photocopy of
a
handwritten document.
