Mary Ann Durham Bayles

Born:6 December 1861 at Paragonah, Iron, Utah, USA
Parents: Thomas Durham and Mary Moore
Married: Ole Hanson Bayles, 3 November 1880 at St. George, Washington, Utah, USA
Died: 31 January 1888 at Blanding, San Juan, Utah,, USA

History

Bayles, Mary Ann Durham, wife of Hanson Bayles, was born Dec. 6, 1861, at Paragonah, Iron county, Utah, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Durham. From her early youth she was raised and tutored as one of the faithful daughters of Zion and became the wife of Hanson Bayles Nov. 3, 1880.

Accompanying her husband to the San Juan country in 1880 she became a veritable pioneer of that place and took part in all the hardships incident to building up of a new settlement in a desert. She died in childbed Jan. 31, 1888, leaving her husband four small children, namely, Mary Ann, Hanson D., Emma Juliet and Caroline Elizabeth.

Her patience and good cheer through the privations of early San Juan days is still remembered by all who knew her.

Sources:
1 LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 3, p. 15 on FamilySearch

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