Hannah Maria Jaques Jackson
(1850-1929)
Hannah Maria Jaques Jackson was born on February 18, 1850 to Zackriah Jaques, Jr. and Sarah Clewer in Foleshill, Warwickshire, England.
Hannah's parents heard about the gospel of Jesus Christ through the early elders who were sent to England.
Her father left England to go to America in search of work in 1852. He began work in St. Louis, Missouri, when cholera was raging. He got this terrible disease and dies, thus leaving Sarah and the children in England to make their own way.
Sarah was determined to come to America and worked in factories waving cloth. For elven years the family struggled to make and save. Sarah put money into the immigration fund which was st up by the church.
In 1863, Hannah being 13,she, and her family set sail for America. Scarlet fever broke out on the ship and Hannah was affected. She was very ill and it looked like she wouldn't live. The Captain of the ship thought it would be better to throw her overboard. But her Hannah's mother would not listen, for she had great faith. Sarah fasted and prayed, and the prayers of saints on board, Hannah's live was spared. The disease left Hannah's hearing impaired.
Finally they reached the United States and made preparations to cross the plains and go to Utah. They crossed the plains with ox teams and wagons and they safely arrived in Salt Lake City. From Salt Lake they were sent to Nephi.
Fours years after they came to Utah, when Hannah was 17, she met Samuel Jackson. They fell in love and were married on December 21, 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They were then blessed through the years with five children. Church authorities advised Samuel to take on a plural wife as well. And all was well in the family.
When Samuel Jackson heard about Brigham Young sending members out to Colorado to settle in the San Luis Valley in the extreme south central part of Colorado, he wanted to go out there. Hannah wasn't too happy about this, but Samuel was determined to go. Samuel went and built a cabin for his family and made way to send the family over.
Hannah and the children traveled to Pueblo Colorado with teams and wagons, where Samuel Met them and they went to the San Luis Valley to Manassa. Hannah hated Colorado but did not complain.
Life went on for Hannah and after her husband died, she was stricken with a kidney infection and past away after a month. She died on August 29, 1929 and was buried with Samuel in the Sowards Cemetery.
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