Gwendolyn Dorothy (Mann) Sims in about 1958

Idaho State Journal January 10, 1972

Gwendolyn Dorothy Morris, 57, a former Pocatello resident, died Saturday in the Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. after a long illness.  

She was born May 5, 1914, in Pocatello to Edwin K. and Helen Hirschvogel Mann.  

She graduated from Pocatello High School and attended Idaho State College.  She worded at the Pocatello General Hospital for several years and then was a cook at the Idaho State Hospital in Blackfoot.

She married James Searle Sims, Oct. 10, 1934, at Logan, Utah.  He died June 24, 1957, in Blackfoot.  Nov. 23, 1964, she married James A. Morris in Blackfoot.  They moved to Norfolk, Va., and at the time of her death, she resided at Coronado, Calif.

Mrs. Morris is survived, besides her husband, by three sons, Eric Sims, Fort Collins, Colo.; Allen Sims, New Haven, Conn.; Cort Sims, stationed with the U.S. Army at Fort Polk, La.; her mother, Mrs. Helen Mann, Pocatello; a sister, Mrs. Howard D. (Helen) Larson, Ventura, Calif. and nine grandchildren.  A daughter, Patricia, died Sept. 15, 1953.  She was a member of the United Methodist Church.

Funeral services will be conducted at the Henderson Funeral Chapel, 431 North Fifteenth, at a time to be announced.  Burial will be in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery.  Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Henderson Funeral Home.

Helen Rosezell (Hirschvogel) Mann probably in the 1930s.  Gwendolyn's mother. 

Idaho State Journal, June 19, 1977, p.2

HELEN H, MANN

Helen H. Mann, 79, a longtime resident of Pocatello, died Saturday at Eastgate Healthcare Center after a long illness.

She was born Aug. 18, 1897 at Scranton, Pa., to Joseph and Ulla Hirschvogel.

She came to Pocatello with her parents as a young girl.  She attended Pocatello schools.  She was a WAC in the U.S. Army Surgical Nurses Corp during World War II.  

She is survived by a son, Edwin W. Mann of Pocatello; a daughter, Helen Ruth Larson of Ventura, Calif.; and several grandchildren.  A daughter, Gwendolyn Morris, preceded her in death.

Following cremation services, graveside funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Henderson Funeral Home

Edwin Knowles Mann with Helen Rosezell (Hirschvogel) Mann about 1915 or a little later.   Gwendolyn's father and mother. 

Edwin Knowles Mann, Born July 14, 1889, died October 29 1942 in Bountiful, Utah.  

Deseret News; Friday, Oct 30, 1942; p. 6; FHL film 027,142

EDWIN KNOWELS (sic) MANN
Woods Cross - Edwin Knowels (sic) Mann, 53, of Woods Cross died Thursday at 1:30 a.m., at his home after a short illness.  A son of Edward (sic) and Sarah Frances Burningham Mann, he was born July 18, 1889, at Bountiful.  On Oct 5, 1927, he married Stella Cleverly, who survives.

Mr. Mann had been employed as a mechanic for the Bamberger Electric Railroad of Salt Lake for the past few years, and had been ill since Oct. 24.

Besides his widow of Woods Cross and his mother of Murray, he is survived by one son and two daughters by a former marriage.  Edwin W. Mann of Pocatello, Ida, Mrs. Gwendolyn Sims of Castle Rock, Colo, and Mrs. Helen R. Larsen of Maine, R. I.; another son, Staley Cleverly Mann of Woods Cross, two half brothers, John E. Burningham and Irvin Burningham of Bountiful; seven half sisters Mrs. Kinney McComb and Mrs. Arnetta Christensen of Murray; Mrs. Maude Garrett, Mrs. Edith Cleverly and Mrs. Lettie Ross of Salt Lake; Mrs. Zelda Neville and Mrs. Etta M. Wallace of Los Angeles; and a number of grandchildren.

(Note: Helen Rosezell Hirschvogel and Edwin Knowles Mann divorced in about 1920.)

Ulla LeMain (Sweet) Hirschvogel Gwendolyn's maternal  grandmother.  Probably in the late teens or early twenties.  

Funeral Description published Pocatello Tribune July 30, 1949 but no Obituary Published.   We have assembled the following information from documents that will be listed in the Sources page when it is completed.

Ulla LeMain Sweet, 73, was born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania on February 20, 1876. She was one of six children of Leroy Duane and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Sweet. At an early age she moved with her family to Kansas and later to Utah. In Salt Lake City, Ulla married Joseph Frank Hirschvogel, a telegraph lineman, on January 14, 1895. Joseph and Ulla moved to Scranton, PA for several years before returning to Salt Lake City. They had two children, Helen Rosezell and Josephine Florence Eliazbeth. Florence died March 21, 1942 in Pocatello. In 1910 they moved to Pocatello, Idaho and purchased a house at 1153 south fourth. In July 1912 Joseph was killed in an accident (see the Death of a Lineman ). Two years later, on January 15, 1914, Ulla married Charles Edward Estoria, a homesteader with a farm southeast of Pocatello. On December 2, 1930 Charles died and Ulla carried on the management of the farm and the house in Pocatello. Ulla died on July 29, 1949 and was buried in the family plot between Joseph and Charles.

Joseph Frank Hirschvogel Gwendolyn's maternal  grandfather about 1909.

No Obituary Published.  However, see the Death of a Lineman page for two newspaper articles published upon his death.  We have assembled the following information from documents that will be listed in the Sources page when it is completed.

Joseph Frank Hirschvogel, 42, born January 13, 1870 in Utah died in a railroad accident west of American Falls, Idaho on July 19, 1912.  (See Death of a Lineman)  His parents were Joseph Ludwig  and Mary Anna (Wensauer) Hirschvogel.  He married Ulla LeMain Sweet on January 14, 1895 in the Congregational Church in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Joseph and Ulla had two children, Josephine Florence Eliazbeth and Helen Rosezell.

Hirschvogel worked as a draftsman in Salt Lake City before settling on a carrier  as a  telephone and telegraph lineman in Utah, Pennsylvania and Idaho.  When he died he was employed by Western Union as a telegraph lineman.  A member of the Woodman of the World and the Moose Lodge in Pocatello, Joseph was a resident of Pocatello since 1910.  He was buried in the family plot in Mountain View Cemetery.

No Obituary Published.  We have assembled the following information from documents that will be listed in the Sources page when it is completed.  Since we have found very little information about Edward Mann, we have included him in the Family Misteries page.

Edwin Mann, 24, died  October 22, 1890 in Bountiful, Utah.  He was born on February 1, 1866 in Bountiful, the son of Charles William and Lavinia Ann (Smith) Mann.  He is survived by his wife, Sarah Frances Thomas, who he married  on March 07, 1888 and and a son  Edwin Knowles Mann born on  July 14, 1889.  He was buried in the Bountiful Cemetery.

Deseret News; Monday, Nov 27, 1944; p. 14; FHL film 027,154

SARAH F. T. BURNINGHAM
Mrs. Sarah Francis Thomas Burningham, 76, 100 Woodrow St., died today at 3:30 a.m. at her home of causes incident to age.

She was born Oct.4, 1868, in Bountiful, a daughter of Edward J. and Sarah Crosby Thomas.  She was married to Heber J. Burningham, who died nine years ago.  She had lived in Murray seven years coming from Bountiful.  She had been active in the Bountiful First Ward.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Kenna McComb and Mrs. Arnetta Bennett, Salt Lake, and the following step sons and step daughters: Irvin and John A. Burningham, Bountiful; Mrs. Zelia Neville and Mrs. Ella Wallace, Los Angeles; Mrs. Maud Garrick, Mrs. Edith Cleverly and Mrs. Lottie Ross, Salt Lake; five sisters, Mrs. Hannah Day, West Murray; Mrs. May Powell, Bountiful; Mrs. Matilda Burningham, Bountiful; Mrs. Emily Eldridge, Portland, Ore; a brother Rulon Thomas, Brigham City; 40 grandchildren and 46 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday noon at 36 E 7th St. by Bishop Lawrence Perry of Murray First Ward. Friends may call at the place of funeral until time of service.

Joseph Ludwig Hirschvogel  Gwendolyn's maternal great grandfather.  Photograph accompanied obituary.

Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah  July 20, 1922

The body is at the Qualtrough-Allcott mortuary, where funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday.  The body may be viewed at the Chapel any time prior to the services.  Interment will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery.

Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah, January 1, 1919, (19:2)

Mary A. Hirschvogel, 71,  (Her maiden name was Marie Anna Wensauer) At Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Mary A. Hirschvogel, a former resident of Utah, died recently (December 30, 1918).  She was born in Germany in 1847 and came to Utah in 1869, settling in Sevier county.  She later moved to Salt Lake and remained here until seven years ago, when she went to Los Angeles.  She is survived by the following sons and daughters: Mrs. C. B. Muehler of San Diego; Mrs. M. M. Kennedy of Los Angeles; Mrs. C. J. Young of Omaha; George H. Hirschvogel of Los Angeles and L. W. Hirschvogel of Salt Lake.

No Obituary Published.  We have assembled the following information from documents that will be listed in the Sources page when it is completed.

LeRoy Duane Sweet, 51,  a resident at 1207 Pierce Street in Scranton, Lackawanna Co. PA. for several years, was born May 1850 in Harford, PA.  His parents were Lorenzo and Lydia M. (Squires) Sweet of Harford.  He married Elizabeth Reynolds on December 30, 1870. She was born April 02, 1855.  Together they had six children, Ulla LeMain Hirschvogel, Archer, Burt, Leroy Duane, George and Angelia. 

LeRoy worked as a carpenter in PA, Kansas and Utah before settling in Scranton.  He died in May 5, 1901(?) after a long illness.

Edward Thomas Gwendolyn's paternal great grandfather

Deseret News; Tuesday, June 13, 1922; p. 10; FHL film 027,030

BOUNTIFUL NONAGENARIAN AND HAND CART PIONEER ANSWERS CALL OF DEATH
(Special to the News)
Bountiful, June 13 - Edward Thomas, handcart pioneer, died at his home here Monday.  Mr. Thomas was born at Cardiff, South Wales, Jan 26, 1842, and emigrated to Salt Lake when a boy crossing the plains with a handcart company.  He had lived here 60 years.
He is survived by two wives, four sons, seven daughters, 42 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.  Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Bountiful.  Interment will be in the Bountiful Cemetery under the direction of Joseph Wm. Taylor.

In the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia (Vol. II, page 721-722, 1914) 

THOMAS, Edward, a prominent Elder in the Bountiful East Ward, Davis county, Utah, was born Jan. 26, 1842, near Cardiff, Wales the son of Ebenezer Thomas and Elvira Jones.  At the age of eight years he became a member of the Church and emigrated to Utah in 1856, crossing the Atlantic in the ship "Samuel Curling" and the plains in Edward Bunkers' handcart company.  He lived with Capt. Dan Jones in the 14th Ward, Walt Lake city, for about two years and went sough in 1858, at the time of "the move," but returned to the north the same year and settled at Bountiful.  He was ordained an Elder March 3, 1866, and on the same day married Sarah Frances Crosby, by whom he had eight children, namely, Edward, Francis, John K., Elvira J., Hannah C. and Mary J., two having died in infancy.  In 1859 he received a special calling to haul rock for the Temple in Salt Lake City, where he labored all winter.  In 1862 he went to the Missouri river after emigrants; he met Amasa M. Lyman's company and helped them into the Valley.  He became a member of the 70th quorum of Seventy at the time of its organization July 1, 1865, being ordained a Seventy on the day by Samuel Bryson.  In 1872 (July 1st) he married Emily Adelaide Rounds; later (Dec. 23, 1880) he married Sarah Hulda Stoddard, by whom he became the father of six children, namely, Matilda, Anna U., Orvall L., Melvin E., Emily V. and Rulon W.  In 1885-86 he filled a mission to Great Britain laboring in the Birmingham conference.  For forty years he has been a member of the Bountiful choir and been the leader of the same for thirty-five years.  In other respects Bro. Thomas has always been a faithful worker in the Church, both at home and abroad.

Charles William Mann, Gwendolyn's paternal great grandfather, no photograph

No Obituary found but the Bountiful Cemetery records show that he was born on July 4th, 1830 and that he died October 26, 1901.  The difference in the cemetery birth date and the following can not be explained at present.

In the LDS Biographical Encyclopedia (Vol. I, page 467, 1914) 

MANN, Charles William, a prominent elder in the West Bountiful ward, was born May 4, 1839, at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England.  He was baptized in 1855 by elder Wm. Cooper, and emigrated to Utah in 1859, sailing over the ocean in the ship "William Tapscott."  While on this voyage he married Livina Ann Smith and crossed the plains in Capt. Geo. Rowley's hand-cart company, which arrived in Salt lake City Sept. 4, 1859.  Bro. Mann pulled a hand-cart all the way across the plains and mountains.  He located in Farmington, Davis County, where he lived till 1862, when he moved to Bountiful, where he has resided ever since.  He was ordained an Elder in 1861 and was later ordained to the office of a Seventy, and is at present a president of the 74th quorum.  Elder Mann has always been an active and faithful churchman, having labored as a teacher and later as president of the Teacher's quorum.  For many years he acted as Ward teacher, and a Sabbath school worker.  In 1889-90 he served a term of fifteen months in the Utah penitentiary for obeying the higher law of marriage.  In the fall of 1890 he left home on a mission to Great Britain, returning, on account of illness, in 1891, Brother Mann is an enterprising citizen and has aided much in developing this western country.  He participated in the Indian wars of 1866, being stationed at Springtown, Sanpete County.  He was also active in the Morrisite war.  In civil pursuits he has followed market gardening successfully, and is at present managing the Woods Cross Canning and Pickling company.  He married Maria Busby and Louise Webb as plural wives, and is the father of 23 children, 14 of whom are now living.

The City Bountiful, Utah's Second settlement from Pioneers to Present," by Leslie T. Foy, (published by Horizon Publishers, 1975) states that

"Those who came later with handcarts had learned from the sad experiences of the Willey and Martin companies.  They left early enough to reach Salt Lake before winter came.  In 1859 Charles Mann and his wife, Lavina, struggled into Utah with the eighth Company, the George Rowley Handcart Company." (page 32)  On page 186 it states that Charles W. Mann had a fatal accident at the Woods Cross Canning and Pickling Company.  

History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania by Rhamanthus M. Stocker, originally published Philadelphia 1887, reprinted by the Susquehanna County Historical Society and Free Library Association 1974  pages 681-682.

Lorenzo Sweet--Amos Sweet, with his wife and children--Captain Asahel, Stephen, Oney, Polly and Nancy--came from Attleborough, Mass., in the fall of 1795, to Nicholson (now Harford), and joined the Nine Partners' settlement.  He built a blacksmith-shop the same fall.  Amos Sweet had six sons and two daughters.  Amos, Jr., Elias and John, remained in Massachusetts until the fall of 1797, when Elias and John came to what is now Harford.  Amos, Jr., a blacksmith, remained in Attleborough.  The earliest religious meetings for the purpose of reading the Scriptures were frequently held at the house of Amos Sweet as early as the later part of 1795, and a recent writer says they were continued for twenty-five years. In 1868 Captain Asahel Sweet was living at over ninety years of age.  He married in 1801, settled on a farm in Harford, where he spent his life.  He died in 1872, at over ninety-four years, and had been cared for by a daughter for some twenty years.

Elias Sweet, son of Amos, married Abigail Foster, resided in Harford, where Jackson Tingley now lives, and had children--Captain Elias, Joseph, Alfred, Hannah, wife of Saxa Seyour, was a merchant at Harford; Eliza, wife of a Mr. Capron, of Ohio; Arta, Abigail, wife of Ira Belcher, of Gibson.  The others settled in Harford, except those whose settlement is mentioned.

Of these, Captain Elias (1794-1833) was father of Lorenzo Sweet, and married Sylvia Wright (1792-1848), a daughter of Samuel and Azuba (Gibbs) Wright, the grandparents of Dr. Samuel Wright, herein mentioned.

This Samuel Wright was a soldier of the Revolution, settled in Lathrop after his sons came here, and died in 1835.

Captain Elias Sweet owned a farm at Oakley, in Harford township, and a saw-mill there in connection with Daniel Oakley, which he managed until 1833, which he was accidentally drowned in the mill-pond.  He was captain of an artillery company for several years.  Their children are Lorenzo, the eldest; William Henry resided and died in Harford; George A. resides in new Milford township; Elenora, wife of Washington Wilmarth, died in Harford; Alfred was accidentally killed in the mill-pond; Eliza wife of Hother Reynolds, of Brooklyn; Elias, of New Milford; and Andrus Sweet, who went West and has not been since heard from.  Lorenzo was twenty years old when his father was drowned.  He assisted his mother in the management of the farm and mill until he attained his majority, and when twenty-two years old, brought out the interest of his father's estate. His mother subsequently married Daniel Piper, and moved to Harford.  Lorenzo, at sixteen, had begun learning the trade of a carpenter, and at that age had closed his school-boy days, which had been at such times in the year as he could be of little service as a worker at home.

He continued the management of the farm and saw-mill, and engaged in lumbering for seventeen years, when he sold his property at Oakley to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and the same year, 1851, bought his present farm in Lathrop, one hundred and twenty-three acres, of the widow of Dr. Rose, formerly the Noah Pratt place.  This has been his homestead since, the house being built by Pratt and repaired by himself in 1863.  Mr. Sweet is a careful, industrious business man.  He has served as treasurer of the township for seventeen years, and assessor, and has held the office of school director and been otherwise officially identified with the community.

He married, in 1841, Lydia M. Squires, who was born July 17, 1823, a devoted wife and mother, and a member of the Methodist Church.  Her father, William Squires (1788-1865), married Betsey Brown (1795-1864), and came to Westfield, VT., in the fall of 1816, to a farm afterwards owned by A. Sterling, near the north line of Lathrop (then Waterford), on the first rod east of Horton's Creek.  About 1826 he removed to the Colonel Phelps place, where they spent the reminder of their lives.  They were buried in the Hillsdale cemetery.  Their son succeeded to the homestead, which is situated near the junction of outlet of Tarbell's Pond and Horton's Creek.  He was an active Presbyterian and a constant attendant at the Brooklyn Center Presbyterian Church for nearly forty years.  Their children are Sarah, widow of Dr. Samuel Wright. For many years a physician of Lathrop, whose sketch is in this volume; Louisa was the first wife of Jesse Silvius, of Lathrop; John, of Scranton; Lydia M. (Mrs. Sweet) Lucy Mary, wife of Asahel Lord, resides in Wilkes-Barre; Susan E., wife of G. W. Tiffany, of Hop Bottom; Reuben S., on the homestead; Henry, principal of the Pittsburgh High School for many years, and a merchant in the city; Parley P. Squires, a farmer in Lenox.

Betsey Brown was the daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Ingalls) Brown, who were also early settlers in Lathrop from Vermont, and Isaac Brown was a soldier of the Revolution, and died at the age of ninety-eight years.

The children of Lorenzo and Lydia M. Sweet are Angelia, wife of John Bisbee, of New Milford; Almon E., of Jetmore, Hodgman County, Kansas, a contractor and farmer; Levy D., (should be LeRoy D.,) a carpenter at Wichita, Kansas; George A. Sweet, a carpenter on a part of the homestead; and Arta L. died young.

William Squires and Betsey (Brown) Squires, Gwendolyn's maternal 3rd great grandfather and mother

No photographs available

William Squires, 78, was born on November 5, 1787 in Vermont.  He married Betsey Brown, the daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Ingalls) Brown on December 25, 1811 and they had nine children including, Henry Gilman, John William, Lucy Mary, Parley P., Reuben Sherman, Susan Emeline, Sarah Betsey, Louisa Ann, and Lydia Maria Sweet.  William died on May 15, 1865 in Lathrop, Susquehanna County, PA.