Preece Family Tree

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1. 1. Henry Clegg
      1. Hannah Eastham
         1. Israel Clegg
      2. Ann Lewis
         1. John Henry Clegg
         2. William J Clegg
         3. Frederick Lewis Clegg
         4. Amelia A Clegg
         5. Juventa B Clegg
         6. Brigham Clegg
         7. Carlie H Clegg
      3. Margaret Ann Griffiths
         1. Thomas G Clegg
         2. Herbert L Clegg
         3. Henry J Clegg
         4. Harriet M Clegg
         5. George A Clegg
         6. Charles D Clegg
         7. Josephus Clegg
         8. Levi W Clegg

Source References

1. United States Federal Census, 1870
   1. • Page: Roll 1612, Page 330b
2. United States Federal Census, 1880
   1. • Page: Roll 1339, Page 318d
3. Salt Lake Tribune
   1. • Date: 12 April 1913
      • Page: Page 16
      • Citation:

        MRS. ANN CLEGG, PIONEER, IS DEAD

        Well Known Woman Passes Away at Heber City at Age of 78 Years.

        Ann Clegg, 78 years of age, a pioneer of 1854 and also a pioneer of Heber City in 1872, widow of the late Bishop Henry Clegg of Heber City, died there Thursday.

        Mrs. Clegg was a native of Cardiff, Wales, where she was born June 2, 1836. She was the eldest daughter of the Rev. John Lewis, a wealthy Methodist minister, who, with his brother, was an engineer during the building of the Cardiff docks, among the largest in the world.

        With her father's family she emigrated to Utah in 1854. She was married in Salt Lake soon after her arrival and moved to Springville, and later went to Heber City.

        Mrs. Clegg was the mother of eleven children, seven of whom are living, namely, John and Fred Clegg; Millie, Montgomery and Carlie Tidwell of Heber City; William J. Clegg of Provo; Juventa Tullidge and Brigham Clegg of Salt Lake City. She was stepmother to Israel Clegg of Springville, Utah.

        She leaves numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.

        Mrs. Clegg's parents are dead. She had two brothers, William and Frederick Lewis, living at Spanish Fork, and a sister, Mary Hawkes, living at Franklin, Ida.

4. Brigham Young University - Idaho: Western States Marriage Index
   1. • Date: 3 December 1855
      • Page: Henry Clegg / Ann Lewis
5. Wm James Mortimer: How Beautiful Upon The Mountains: A Centennial History of Wasatch County
   1. • Page: Page 306-307
      • Citation:

        Henry Clegg, Jr.

        Henry Clegg, Jr was born 7 June 1825 at Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, England to Henry Cardwell Clegg Sr. and Ellen Cardwell Clegg. He was the youngest of eight children in the family. Henry was 12 years of age when Heber C. Kimball and other LDS Missionaries from America arrived in Preston with the message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. Henry Clegg Sr. and his brother Johnathan were in the marketplace when the missionaries arrived. They were among the first converts. Tradition has it that Henry Sr. was the second convert baptized in England. He ran a race to the River Ribble in Preston to see who was to be the first, but lost to George D. Watt, a younger man.

        Little is known of Henry Jr.'s days as a youth. We know he acquired a good education and followed the shoe and clog making trade of his father. He and his young wife Hannah Eastman joined the LDS Church and were baptized March 1848. Together they worked and saved means to immigrate to Utah. They with their two young sons, Israel and Henry James, bid farewell to their loved ones, none of whom they ever saw again, with the exception of a brother Johnathan. Their oldest son Thomas was accidentally burned to death two years prior to that time. They set sail from Liverpool with many other Saints on the steamship "Juventa" on March 31, 1855. Six weeks later they landed in Philadelphia, then went by train to Pittsburgh; then by steamboat down the Ohio River to St. Louis. At Mormon Grove, near Atchinson, Kansas, they joined the Richard Ballantyne Company of 42 Saints and 45 ox-drawn wagons. Preparations were made for the long journey where they could enjoy their new-found religion free from persecution.

        However, that wasn't the privilege of his dear wife Hannah, a frail little woman. The hardships of the long journey proved too much and she died March 28, 1855 and was buried in an unmarked grave. Shortly after, little Henry died and his father carried him back and placed him in the grave with his mother. Heartsick, he hastened to catch up with the Saints, taking his little son Israel by the hand. They started the 1000-mile trek across the plains. After four months they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Among those who greeted the travelers was a 19-year-old Welsh girl, Ann Lewis, who later became the bride of Henry Clegg, Jr. She came to Utah in 1854 in first class style in Darwin Richards Company. She was born June 25, 1836 in Cardiff, Wales. She married Henry Clegg, Jr. December 3, 1855. They resided in the 19th Ward where their first son, John, was born August 14, 1857. They received their endowments in the old Endowment House and were sealed by Brigham Young. The same day he married as his plural wife a young 17-year-old immigrant girl, Margaret Ann Griffiths. She was born in Liverpool April 5, 1840. She, with her father John Griffiths, a step-mother, two brothers and a sister, Jane, traveled in the ill-fated Edward Martin Handcart Company. Her Two brothers, 10 and 12 years of age, died of cold and hunger, and her father died the night they arrived in Salt Lake. Margaret Ann and her sister had frostbitten hands and feet.

        In 1855, when Johnston's Army was sent to Utah with hostile intentions, Henry with other Saints left their homes and moved south. Henry took his two wives and two sons and made their home in Springville. He then joined other men in Echo Canyon to hold back the invasion of the army. When he returned, they decided to stay in Springville. He became a leading citizen. He was a fine musician. He played the dulcimer for dances. He organized and directed a choir of 60 voices. His wives were also good singers. They would sing with him when he gave lectures in nearby wards and towns.

        He carried on his shoemaking trade. He managed to make one pair of shoes a year for each member of his family. Seeing the necessity of work for his sons he moved to Provo Valley, now Heber City, where his brother Johnathan had settled. In 1872 he and his wives and family moved to Heber. His son Israel had married and remained in Springville all his life.

        Henry took up a homestead in southeastern Heber, where his sons farmed, perpetuated a sawmill and later a rock quarry. Henry went into the mercantile business. He again proved to be a prominent leader of the town in both civic and religious activities. He taught school, organized and directed the Band of Hope, and also played in the Martial Band and was bishop of the West Ward for many years. He was stake clerk, Sunday School superintendent and also served in the Wasatch Stake High Council. He was an expert mathematician and did much public work in that field.

        He died at the age of 69 years on 30th of August 1894. Ann Lewis Clegg died the 11th of April 1913 at the age of 77. Margaret Griffith Clegg died 29th of July 1929 at the age of 89. They are buried in Heber cemetery.

   2. • Page: Page 307-308
      • Citation:

        JOHN HENRY CLEGG

        John Henry Clegg was born November 15, 1856, in Salt Lake City on the present side of the Federal Building at 4th South and Main Street.

        His father, Henry Clegg, Sr., was the second person to be baptized into the LDS Church in Europe. A younger man won a race with him to the River Ribble near Preston's old tram bridge at Lancashire, England, in July, 1830, thereby winning the honor of being hte first of a small group of converts to be baptized. In immigrating to America, his wife and baby died, so that he arrived in Salt Lake Valley with only one son, Israel. Ann Lewis, also a convert from England, who was meeting the immigrants as they came into the city, was one of the first persons to greet him. They were married soon after, and the family moved to Springville, later coming to Heber where they homesteaded land and went into the grocery store business. Henry Clegg became the first Bishop of the West Ward in Heber.

        John Henry Clegg was the oldest of Ann Lewis and Henry Clegg's children and soon was engaged in farming and stock raising. In between the farm work, he worked at his father's shingle mill in Clegg's Canyon. He also hauled cord wood into Salt Lake City and always camped at Third South and State, where the City and County Building now stands.

        He met Martha Ellen Smith, daughter of Thomas Smith and Sarah Frampton Smith when she was working at the shingle mill. After 10 years of courting they were married on New Year's Day 1889 during a total eclipse of the sun. Their home still stands at the corner of 6th South and Main Street in Heber.

        To them were born two sons, John Douglas and Henry Cardwell, and eight daughters including Mattie, Ann, Ramona, Ruth, Bessie, Sheila, Camille, and Bernice.

        He was a successful farmer and stockman. He took an active part in the politics of the valley, but never ran for an office. In 1889, he went up to the head of the Provo River to help make cuts in the lakes to drain out more water. That fall two dams were built - one at Washington Lake and one at Trial Lake. Due to a very heavy winter of the year 1889-90 both dams washed out, and this left the people of Heber with practically no irrigation water, but they kept on working with a view to rebuild the dams. In 1906 John helped to survey the Uinta Reservation. By 1908 the work was outlined again for the rebuilding of the dams at the head of the Provo River. At this time the Provo Reservoir Company came into being and furnished the money to fight a lawsuit with Salt Lake City when it protested the rebuilding plans.

        The case was won by Heber, and for their financial aid the Provo Reservoir Co. received a half interest in the three big lakes as well as in many of the smaller ones. John Clegg was influential in getting this work started again. He sent his team with his son Henry Cardwell to help build a road to the lakes 46 miles away. They arrived on the 27th of June 1910 at Trial Lake but were driven out by mosquitoes. In late July John Clegg was in charge of building the Washington dam and for several years he supervised the building of dams and served as President of the Wasatch Canal Company.

        He lived a very useful life, and due to his vision and foresight, Wasatch County now enjoys many water rights and privileges. He adhered to a strict standard of personal honesty and integrity, never avoiding hard work, and reared his family by the same standards. He died June 22, 1930, in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City and was buried in the Heber CIty cemetery. His memory is revered by all who knew him.

6. General Register Office: England & Wales Marriage Index
7. United States Federal Census, 1910
   1. • Page: Roll 1610, Page 3b