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Note: ELIZA ANN BICKMORE Eliza Ann Bickmore was born 29 Jan. 1830 in Madison, Illinois. She was the daughter of William and Christine Bagley Bickmore and was one of a large family though all the other names of the family are not known. Two brothers, Gilbert and Orlando, and two sisters, Christine and Fidelia, are listed on the records. Fidelia married a man named Kidd and lived at Fort Herriman. Eliza Ann had her endowments 7 Feb. 1846. After the return of the Mormon Battalion she met and married Elijah Allen in 1852 and accompanied him and his father's family to Utah. After a short stay in Provo they settled in Fort Herriman. They had seven children, one daughter and six sons. Her husband died 21 Apr. 1866 as a result of the hard trip and severe treatment he received with the Mormon Battalion. He never knew what good health was after that journey. Her husbands brothers, Charles, Andrew and Levi, had her move to Richmond with her family so they could help to look after her. They must have been in very strained circumstances as the children had to go without shoes in the wintertime. Andrew said he went to school barefoot when quite a good sized boy. Eliza Ann was a hard working woman. The family kept sheep and she spun and wove the cloth for all their clothing. She knit the socks, wove carpets, churned and made butter, made good salt-rising bread in the summer and yeast bread in the winter. She was quick about her work and could wash, churn, bake, and iron in one day besides getting the meals. She was a good �plain food� cook and her meals were always appetizing. She taught her family to work. The people of Richmond would put all their cows together in one herd and hire her boys to herd them. They hired Eliza Ann's sons, two at a time, until they got old enough to do a man's work. Her son, Elijah, worked in the canyon and will worked down in the lead mines in Bingham, Utah. Will became leaded and it affected his mind. He died at an early age. The family first lived in a little log house in the northeast part of Richmond. As the boys grew older, Elijah homesteaded land out In Cove Ville and the family moved out there in a one-room log house. They stayed there and built a nice two-room frame house with lumber they cut in the canyon. It was painted white. Elijah got pneumonia working in the canyon and died. Eliza Ann lived in this home until her children were all married and then she lived with one or another of the children, wherever she was needed until she died in March 1901. She was religious in a quiet way and attended church wherever she could. She was a very good woman and was notably neat and clean. (A tribute paid to Aunt Eliza Ann Bickmore Allen from Lydia S. Purnell). Their first home was in a village 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City called Fort Herriman, where her children were born and her husband died. Some time after his death, his brothers moved her to Richmond, Cache Valley. Utah, that they might help her with their counsel and management. She had a yoke of cattle, a wagon, household furniture, a few cows, sheep and chickens and pigs, which they had accumulated while her husband was alive. She bought a city lot with one log room, some sheds and corrals to shelter the animals, thus, she started anew to make a home and raise her family, which consisted of six boys and one girl ranging in age from 13 to 2 years. My purpose in writing this tribute is to show how she did it. She kept her family together, taught them to work, and to be honest and obedient. She was kind to them and worked hard to keep them clothed and fed. She made cloth for clothing, stockings, blankets and quilts with the wool from her sheep. After a few years they built a good log room with shingled roof and an attic where the boys slept. When I was about 12 years old, I made many visits with them as her daughter, Eliza Ann, was near my age. Aunt always made me welcome. The boys were agreeable. It was a real home where peace and freedom wer
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