Person:Martha Eynon (1)

CHRS: Parish printouts [extracted records] of Martletwy, Pembrokeshire, Wales: Martha Eynon [Cynon]; chrs 17 Apr 1835; dau of Richard and Sarah. Actual B.T's of Martletwy [105188 item 5] Martha, dau of Richard and Sarah Eynon, Landshipping, Collier: 17 Apr 1835.

Information from Mr. Taylor: Martha Eynon born 12 Oct 1834 and chrs. ? 17, 1835.

Endowment House Film [183,404] 1857-1864: Martha Rees; born 12 Oct 1834, Landshipping, Pembroke, So. Wales; bapt 1849; parents Richard and Sarah Eynon.

Birth: another version: 12 Nov 1834 (scrap of paper from Lila)

Marriage: 15 Apr 1855. Was married on ship "Chimborazo" crossing Atlantic Ocean from Liverpool to New York (vol. 3). (scrap of paper of Lila's; also some research notes.).

Logan Church records: Born 12 Nov 1834; bapt Mar 1849 by John Rodgers. Conf. by Hugh Marryman. Moved to Providence in 1884. Died 21 May, 1923.

(Another note said that David Reese was 62 and Martha was 56 and Homa was 18. This must have been the 1890 census. Another note said: June 3, 1891, sailed from Liverpool, England on SS Alaska to New York. I don't know what this means since they came over in 1855). IGI-1998: BIRTH: 12 Oct 1834 and 12 Nov 1833. SP: 14 Aug 1956-SLAKE

1880 Census of Logan, Cache, Utah: Martha Rees; wife; md; f; w; age 41[1839?]; born in Wales; keeping house; parents born in Wales.

DEATH: Logan Cemetery Records [film 24535]: Martha Eynon Reese born Nov 12, 1833 and died May 21, 1923.

Tribune Obit: Mrs. Burgoyne is survived by three sisters: Mrs. Martha Reese of Logan...

Know your Eynon and Related Families by Luella Grace Eynon Garton: According to personal records kept by three of Richard Eynon's children, Margret, Martha and Mary Ann, they each said they were baptized in 1849 in Wales. Catherine was bapt. Jan 18, 1852 in Wales. Martha was the first of Richard's children to emigrated. She left Wales in 1861 on the ship Chimboraza, 16 Apr 1861. On this same ship was a young Welsh LDS man named David Rees. It is not known if they had met previously. They were married aboard the ship. They were young and strong with a devoted love for the gospel. They pushed handcarts to Utah and settled in Bountiful, Utah. They next moved to Willard. Pres. Brigham Young then asked them to colonize Logan. They built a red brick two=story home across the street from the Logan Temple. Some say that they owned the first opera house in Logan. David asked for permission to marry into polygamy. So he married a German widow. She gave permission only if they did not have to live in the same house. So he settled her on a farm. She was sealed to her husband, 21 Dec 1861. She died at her home in Logan, 22 May 1923. They are in the Who's Who of Utah.