- Born March 4, 1848 in Winter Quarters, Pottawattamie, Iowa
- Died March 22,1897 in Gunnison, Utah
- crossed the plains to Salt Lake City in the Robert Wimmer Company at the age of 4
Life Sketch of the Life of Nancy A. Herring Wasden
Nancy Arilla Herring Wasden was the daughter of Isaac
Herring and Harriet L. Adams Herring.
She was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa March 4, 1848.
In the summer of the 1852 she with her parents and three
brothers arrived in Salt Lake City.
The family came across the plains with a hand cart company
and suffered the hardships incident to that mode of traveling. The family first settled in Big Cottonwood,
Slat Lake County, where another daughter was born to those pioneer
parents. Soon after they moved to Manti,
where they made their home. Other
children were born in all 5 sons and 4 daughters
My mother was educated in the primitive schools of that
time, but her greatest education was acquired in domestic arts, which she
learned from her mother. She learned to
card the wool, spin yarn, and weave cloth, which was valuable knowledge and
helped her in a splendid way to provide clothing for her large family when she
became a wife and mother.
She has often related to her children, how in the early pioneer
days they were forced to gather segos and other roots to sustain life. When the crops were gathered women and
children would go into the fields to glean, and as a small child my mother
would carry home her gleanings of wheat heads, empty them on a canvas, and bear
out the kernels of wheat with a large stick; the wheat being sold at the stores
to purchase necessities for family use.
She learned the art of coloring with rabbit brush, the bark
of walnut trees, and various colorings to brighten the home made cloth, carpet
rags, etc.
On the 22nd day of May 1864, she became the wife
of John Brooks Wasden, from which union thirteen children were born.
Mother was an expert seamstress and often went out to sew by
the day as also she did dress making in her home.
When her fourth child was six months old, father’s second
wife died leaving an infant son, Mother took this child and reared him as her
own, and the love and devotion she received from this son as he grew to manhood
was ample proof that her work had been well done.
Mother never neglected her home or her family. It was her shrine, to which all her best life
and efforts were devoted.
She passed the barriers of this life March 22, 1897, at
Gunnison, Utah.
There was a death notice published in the Manti
Messenger, Saturday 3 April 1897:
“A gloom spread over our town on March 22, at the death of Mrs. Aurilla Wasden, one of our most highly respected and much loved citizens. Her faithfulness as a mother is well known. She leaves eight children, her husband and many relatives and friends to mourn her departure.”
“A gloom spread over our town on March 22, at the death of Mrs. Aurilla Wasden, one of our most highly respected and much loved citizens. Her faithfulness as a mother is well known. She leaves eight children, her husband and many relatives and friends to mourn her departure.”
She was the mother of
five sons and eight daughters: Alice Arilla, John Thomas, Mary Lucinda, Alta
Arvilla, Margret Ellen, Anna Sophia, Rosella May, Willard Washington, Isaac
Ransom, Fredrick Orson, Nancy Caroline, Joseph F., Olive Mayble, and her
adopted son, James Brooks.
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