Orson Pratt Brown - Life, Times, Family

Margaret was born in Scotland on December 10, 1835 to George Galbraith I (1812-1840) and Ann Wilkie (1813-1875).

When Margaret was five years of age her father died of yellow fever on St. Kitts Island in the West Indies. He was serving the British Crown as a civil engineer. Her mother was also stricken with yellow fever but survived. After returning to England Margaret's mother married John Hooper and had four more children.

In helping to care for her new brothers and sisters, Margaret began the chief vocation of her life, that of mothering and caring for countless children. Besides rearing her own ten children, she was helpful with her husband's orphaned brothers and sisters, rearing some of the children of her husband's second wife, and two orphaned boys from England. Her husband met these boys when on a mission to England.

Margaret and her mother and family left England with an LDS group of converts under the direction of President Dorr Curtis. After landing in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 Mar 1854, they sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri. From there, they went to Kansas and joined a compay of five hundred with fifty wagons, under the direction of Captain Daniel Cairns. They left for the journey July 1, 1854 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 3, 1854 where she met her future husband.

Margaret married Henry William Manning on 14 March 1855 and was later endowed and sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 6, 1862. She was for many years the President of the Relief Society in Hooper. In the winter of 1896, she developed an abdominal cancer and was operated on for the lesion, on the dining room table of her niece, Mrs. George E. Browining, in Ogden, Utah. She recovered in spite of a surgical accident which caused cruel suffering for the rest of her thirteen years of life. She continued to serve as a nurse until she died June 12, 1909.

Margaret's husband survived her, dying April 28, 1916. The entire community of Hooper honored Margaret at her funeral.

Ann Wilkie Manning

Born: 19 February 1856 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Infant

Died: 30 May 1856 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Joseph George Manning

Born: 15 Apr 1857 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

Married: Josephine Gwilliams on 18 January 1880

Died: 16 May 1937 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

Margaret Ann Manning

Born: 11 June 1859 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

Married: Oliver Belnap on 6 January 1881

Died: 18 April 1894 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

Henry William Manning Jr.

Born: 6 Aug 1861 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

Married: Eliza Jane Wadsworth on 3 January 1884

Died: 21 Mar 1932 at Clearfield, Davis, Utah

Mary Ann Manning

Born: 14 February 1864 at Wilson Lake, Weber, Utah

Married: Henry Eugene Robinson on 19 February 1884

Died: 13 Mar 1924 at Paul, Minnidoka, Idaho

Jane Wilkie Manning

Born: 19 May 1866 at Wilson Lane, Weber, Utah

Married: (1) Jedediah Ballantyne on15 February 1886 (D); (2) Samuel Reed Skolfield on 11 Apr 1897

Died: 11 Feb 1935 at Salt Lake City, Utah

George Galbraith Manning II

Born: 24 Oct 1868 at West Weber, Weber, Utah
Infant

Died: 22 September 1869

Violet Galbraith Manning

Born: 1 February 1872 at Hooper, Weber, Utah

Married: Robert Marchant Newman on 12 January 1899

Died: 9 Oct 1958 at Ogden, Weber, Utah

David Galbraith Manning

Born: 15 February 1874 at Hooper, Weber, Utah

Infant

Died: 3 April 1874 at Hooper, Weber, Utah

Lawrence Galbraith Manning

Born: 16 July 1875 at Hooper, Weber, Utah

Married: Florence Mabel Mitchell on 2 August 1915

Died: 22 June 1937

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Margaret Galbraith Manning

Children of Margaret Galbraith Manning and Henry William Manning

Ann Wilkie Manning

Joseph George Manning

Margaret Ann Manning

Henry William Manning Jr.

Mary Ann Manning

Jane Wilkie Manning

George Galbraith Manning II

Violet Galbraith Manning

David Galbraith Manning

Lawrence Galbraith Manning

ORSON PRATT BROWN FAMILY UPDATES

ORSON PRATT BROWN 1863-1946

ORSON'S JOURNALS AND BIOGRAPHIES

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S PARENTS
- Captain James Brown 1801-1863

- Phebe Abbott Brown Fife 1831-1915

- Colonel William Nicol Fife - Stepfather 1831-1915

ORSON'S GRANDPARENTS

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 5 WIVES

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S 35 CHILDREN

ORSON'S SIBLINGS from MOTHER PHEBE

ORSON'S 28 SIBLINGS from JAMES BROWN

ORSON'S 17 SIBLINGS from STEPFATHER FIFE

ORSON PRATT BROWN'S IN-LAWS

INDEX OF MORMON COLONIES IN MEXICO

INDEX OF MORMON MEXICAN MISSION

INDEX TO POLYGAMY IN UTAH, ARIZONA, MEXICO

INDEX TO MEX. REVOLUTION & THE MORMON EXODUS

INDEX OF SURNAMES

MAPS OF THE MEXICAN COLONIES

BROWN FAMILY MAYFLOWER CONNECTION 1620

BROWN's in AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783

BROWN's in AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861-1865

BROWN's in WARS AFTER 1865

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