Adam Eccles' notebook: Mary Ellen Eccles baptized by C. Stratford, donfirmed by E. Tillson, born in Manchester April 16, 1878.
A carpenter.
William Gurney was a milkman.
(Letter from Harold P. Christensen (grandson of William Gurney) to Dorothy Oram dated August 1977).
Adam Eccles notebook: Jeannette Eccles, born Charlton, Oxfordshire, England June 20, 1844, baptized by Peter Peterson, confirmed by James Taylor.
1900 census says they were married for 28 years, putting it at 1872. Utah marriage record shows marriage in Logan of 30 Mar 1892. Could this be a sealing? First wife died in 1883. Could they have married in 1872 as a plural marriage?
Lived in England in Priory Grove, Surrey.
Stewart Eccles
Stewart Eccles, deceased, was a man of many substantial and admirable qualities that endeared him to those with whom he was associated. His sterling worth was widely recognized. He was particularly active in church circles as high priest and president of a Quorum of Seventy and at all times lent his aid and cooperation to every plan and measure that tended to promote the social, intellectual, material and moral progress of the district in which he lived.
He was a resident of Utah for many years but was born in Glasgow, Scotland, January 15, 1852, his parents being William and Sarah (Hutchison) Eccles, who on coming to America settled at Eden, Utah, where the father engaged in farming for a number of years. He then removed to Ogden, where he purchased a small fruit farm and devoted his attention thereafter to the cultivation of his orchards until his demise.
Stewart Eccles obtained his education in the common schools of Eden and Huntsville and on attaining his majority took up sawmill work, in which he engaged for a number of years. He also purchased the old homestead, which he rented, and in 1894 he went to Glasgow, Scotland, where he remained for twenty-six months. Upon his return to Utah he again located at Eden but afterward removed to Oregon. In 1903 he once more went to Glasgow, Scotland, where he spent another twenty-six months, and in 1904 his wife joined him in Glasgow, where he was engaged on mission work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their son, Stewart, also went with his father. In 1906 they returned to the new world, again making their way to Oregon, where they remained for two years and where Mr. Eccles did missionary work, in all spending seven years in laboring for the church in that state. On the expiration of that period they once more became residents of Eden, Utah, where Mr. Eccles engaged in merchandising and in addition continued to conduct his ranch. In 1913 Mr. Eccles and his wife once more went abroad, this time to England, where they spent eighteen months in mission work. Mr. Eccles was president of the London conference but became ill while there and died quite suddenly on the 3rd of November, 1914. Mrs. Eccles then returned to Utah and established her home at Ogden, where they had lived for a year prior to going to England.
Mr. Eccles married Miss Marintha Eltharia Bingham, a daughter of Erastus and Susan (Green) Bingham, the former a native of Vermont, while the latter was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her father was one of the Mormon Battalion and came to Utah in 1847. Mrs. Bingham, with her father, Benjamin P. Green, walked across the plains and the family home was established at Harrisville in a log cabin which is still standing. Erastus Bingham, the grandfather of Mrs.
Eccles, came to Utah about the same time with the Mormon Battalion. The Bingham family went through all the troubles that the people of their faith experienced in Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Eccles were born three children: Christabella, now the wife of Jacob Johnson, of Grovont, Wyoming; Stewart, Jr., of Eden; and Marintha Adel, deceased. The mother of Mrs. Eccles was the first white woman in the Ogden valley and thus the family has been represented in Utah from early pioneer times. Both her father and her grandfather built a home in Salt Lake, where they lived for a time. Mr. Eccles was a most active worker in the church, serving on three different foreign missions, and upon his return from his work in Scotland he did missionary work in Washington. His life was characterized by the utmost fidelity to duty and the most unfalteringly loyalty to the principles which he espoused. His many good deeds made him most widely and favorably known and his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.