Ellen (Eleanor) Clark

Ellen (Eleanor) Clark, Baptized June 20th by Wilford Woodruff at Froomes Hill.

Ellen, Eleonor Clark (Bryan), daughter of Thomas Henry Clark and Charlotte Gailey, born Jan. 21, 1828, Bishops Froome, Herefordshire, England. Married George Woodward Bryan on May 12, 1850. “They settled in E.T.Cityabout 1854, then went to CacheCountywith the Maughan family, when the grasshoppers devastated the land in E.T. They returned however, and settled at RoseSprings(Erda). They accepted the responsibility of raising a small child, Joseph Thomas Parkinson, born July 23, 1868at Grantsville. He was the son of Charles Graham Parkinson and Hannah Clark, Eleanor’s sister. Joseph’s mother had died leaving a family of small children including the baby Joseph. Mr. Parkinson kept the other children but left the care of Joseph to his aunt and uncle. A few months later Eleanor herself passed away December 21, 1869, at the age of forty-one years. George W. Bryan later married Margaret Simpson who raised Joseph”[1].

Eleonor Clark and George Woodward Bryan had no children of their own.


[1] History ofTooeleCounty, Daughters of theUtah Pioneers, Biography, Lois Gillespie