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Note: hom she was sealed during her lifetime. She had no children by her third husband.
!2. Louisa's place of birth was assumed to be Page Co. Research has found that she was in fact born in Madison Co.
!3. Biographical material written by granddaughter, Ester Dille based on information told by Louisa.
!4. Janeal O. Young visited the gravesite in Bountiful, UT cemetery, 1968.
~Louisa was sealed to her grandparents on 7 Nov 2001,San Diego, as her father has never been determined and this was the recommended procedure at that time to put her in the correct lineage.
!5. Louisa left many questions unanswered, the primary one being who her father was. She told her family that he was a suicide and that she had a younger sister who stayed with her mother when the mother remarried Enoch Jenkins. Louisa was reared by her grandparents, James and Frances (Thomas) Hurt, who died when she was fairly young.
Little documentary evidence has been found about her origins, but her information did lead to the identification of her mother's family. When a marriage bond was posted for her marriage to Joshua, the surety was a William Jenkins who was a member of her step-father's family. Her step-father, Enoch Jenkins signed permission for her marriage. She was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Madison County side, probably within the boundary of what became the Blue Ridge Parkway. as there were still Hurts there who were dispossessed when the park and road were constructed.
All LDS church records indicate that she gave her father's name as James Hort, which was a version of the name of her grandfather,James Hurt. Her Endowment House Record shows the names of James Hort and Nancy as her parents. The East Bountiful Ward Record show that she listed her parents as James Hortt and Nancy Hortt. On several occasions she gave her grandmother's name, Frances, as her mother's name. She was proud of her family which had come to Virginia in the early 17th century from Bristol, England.
Louisa and her children joined the LDS church in 1847 and crossed the plains in 1850. She traveled in one of David Dille's wagons, and when his wife died on the trail, the two families joined forces, encouraged by Brother Dunn, the leader of the party. They lived together in Ogden for a number of years where she bore Dille a family and supported him on a mission to England with her shoemaking skills--which she had learned from her first husband. The couple later separated, and she married Judge Joseph Holbrook as a plural wife. She died in Bountiful, Utah at the age of 83. She is buried in the Bountiful Cemetery under the name of "Hoit", which is how the name sounded with her southern pronunciation.
She appears with her maiden name in the 1900 census of Bountiful. David Dille's history in the DUP museum asserts that she left him when he decided to move to Cache County. He does not refer to her by name, but only as "the widow woman."
She appears in the 1850 territorial census of Weber County, Utah in the home of David Dille with her children. They are shown as Doffhiner [probably due to the southern accent being misinterpreted] In 1860 Louisa Dille age 40 is living in Ogden while David B. is in Cache County.
Louisa's obituary (sent me by Pearl Oldham):
The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Louisa Hoyt Holbrook, who died Feb 5, 1903, were held in the tabernacle at East Bountiful, last Sunday at 2 p.m. and were very largely attended. The speakers were Elders Brigham A. Holbrook, Thos. Phillips (of Porterville), J.J. Holbrook and Home Missionaries Wilcox and Robinson from Farmington.
Deceased was born 4 June 1820 in West Virginia, near the Blue Ridge mountains, which would make her nearly eighty three years of age.
At the age of about fifteen she was married to Joshua Doffelmier and moved to Iowa. Here she buried her husband and two of her children. She then joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starting across the plains with her three remaining children--two sons and a daughter. On this journey she met and married D.B. Dilley who was then a widower with three children.
They located where Ogden now stands, in 1850. Theirs was the second lumber shanty erected in that place, however, there were a few brush huts. In 1858 they moved south but returned to Ogden. Finally moved to Bountiful where she has been living for forty years. Three children were born to them.
About thirty-nine years ago, she was married to the late Judge Holbrook.
Note: !1. Louisa md (2) David Buel DILLE and had children by him. She md (3) Joseph HOLBROOK, to w
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