Juletta Eames Hancock

BIRTHDATE: 6 Nov 1806 Mentor, Lake Co., Ohio

DEATH: 28 Aug 1888 Burrville, Sevier Co., Utah

PARENTS: Benjamin Eames and Julia Bacon

PIONEER: 1847-48

SPOUSE: Alvah B. Hancock

MARRIED: 1823

CHILDREN

Abigail 3 Apr 1825

Sarah 3 Nov 1826

Benjamin 24 Apr 1830

Joseph Warren 12 Oct 1832

John Turney 18 Jun 1835 (died at age 17)

Aurilla 2 Apr 1838 (died as a child)

Cyrus Mortimer 6 Jun 1841

Martha Angeline 30 Sep 1846

Juletta was baptized in 1830, by Parley P. Pratt. She married Alvah Benjamin Hancock in 1823 and they had eight children (the youngest was just ten months of age when her husband died at Mt. Pisgah). Their first four children were born while they lived in Ohio. They lived in Clay County from 1835 through 1838 in Missouri, where their next two children were born.

Then they moved to Iowa from 1841, remaining there until 1846, where their last child was born. It is reported that her husband signed a petition in 1840 estimating mob damages of $4,500 for 140 acres in Jackson, Clay and Caldwell Counties in Missouri.

Sometime after the death of her husband, Juletta left with the Saints for Utah. Her family moved into the middle part of the state. She was a member of the Payson Ward in Utah County.

She lived to be nearly eighty-two years of age. She died in Burrville, Sevier County, Utah. She had endured the tremendous hardships of Clay County, Nauvoo, and the trials of crossing the Plains with her children by herself; a true pioneer woman of great faith and extreme fortitude.