Rebecca HENDRICKS

1835 - 1880  (44 years)

• Name	Rebecca HENDRICKS
  Birth	2 Nov 1835	Drakes Creek, Simpson, Kentucky   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Burial	May 1880	SMITHFIELD, Cache, UT
  Death	11 May 1880	SMITHFIELD, Cache, UT   [2]
  Person ID	I3857	HHDHA
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2010

  
  

  Father	James HENDRICKS,   b. 23 Jun 1808, West Branch of Drakes Creek, Warren, Kentucky d. 8 Jul 1870, Richmond, Cache, Utah (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Drusilla DORRIS,   b. 8 Feb 1810, Fort Hamilton, Sumner, TN d. 20 May 1881, Richmond, Cache, UT (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	31 May 1827	Franklin, Simpson, KY   [3]
  Family ID	F367	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hyrum Abiff WATSON,   b. 22 Aug 1828, Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA d. 2 May 1908, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	7 Jul 1852	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	Rebecca received Temple divorce from Hiram Abiff Watson Sealed to Spouse: Alternate date 7 Jul 1852 Endowment House
  Children	1. Hiram Abiff WATSON,   b. 8 Apr 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah d. 15 Oct 1916, Hot Lake, , Oregon (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Samuel ROSKELLEY,   b. 1 Jan 1837, Davenport, Devonshire, England d. 10 Feb 1914, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	22 Jul 1858	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Children	1. Rebecca ROSKELLEY,   b. 22 Apr 1859, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA d. 5 Aug 1890, Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 31 years)   2. Charlotte ROSKELLEY,   b. 7 Oct 1860, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 2 Aug 1862 (Age 1 year)   3. Zina Young ROSKELLEY,   b. 18 Mar 1862, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 24 Jan 1881, Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 18 years)   4. Samuel ROSKELLEY, Jr.,   b. 11 Aug 1863, Richmond, Cache, Utah, USA d. 25 Feb 1936, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA (Age 72 years)   5. James ROSKELLEY,   b. 10 Jan 1865, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, USA d. 5 May 1919, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 54 years)   6. William Hendricks ROSKELLEY,   b. 4 May 1866, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, USA d. 22 Nov 1948, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, USA (Age 82 years)   7. Charlotte ROSKELLEY,   b. 7 Oct 1860, Richmond, Cache, UT d. 2 Aug 1862 (Age 1 year)   8. Joseph ROSKELLEY,   b. 5 Jun 1868, SMITHFIELD, Cache, UT d. 25 Apr 1951 (Age 82 years)   9. Zina Young ROSKELLEY,   b. 18 Mar 1862, Richmond, Cache, UT d. 24 Jan 1881, HYDE PARK, Cache, UT (Age 18 years)   10. Hiram Abiff WATSON,   b. 8 Apr 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah d. 15 Oct 1916, Hot Lake, , Oregon (Age 63 years)  [Father: Adopted]
  Family ID	F503	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S36] Cooper, Brian, Henry Hendricks Reunion 2000 CD v 2.0., Red Book Pictures, James and Druzilla Family Bible. Plate 4. [S13] Allen, Marguerite Hendricks, Henry Hendricks Genealogy, (Henry Hendricks Family Organization, Third Ed. 1995), pp. 64-65., JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 H384a. REBECCA HENDRICKS, daughter of James31 (Abraham12Henry1) and Drusilla (Dorris) Hendricks, born 2 Nov.1835 near Franklin, Ky. She married 1st HIRAM ABIFF WATSON 7 July 1852 and had one child. She married 2nd on 22 July 1858 in Salt Lake City, Ut. SAMUEL ROSKELLEY, and had seven children. Hiram Abiff Watson was born 22 Aug. 1828, Rochester, N. Y., son of Nathan Whitney and Electa (Phillips) Watson. He died 2 May 1908 in Minneapolis, Minn. Samuel Roskelley was born 1 Jan. 1837 Devonport, Devon, England, son of Thomas and Ann (Kitt) Roskelley. He died 10 Feb. 1914 in Smithfield, Ut. where he was buried. Rebecca was born just six months after her parents had joined the L.D.S. Church. This of course brought great changes in the lives of this family. Religious intolerance during the nineteenth century was almost universal inboth Europe and America. Catholics, Jews, Protestants and Mormons all suffered some degree of persecution inthose areas where their numbers constituted a minority of the population.Soon after Rebecca was born, the family moved to Clay Co., Mo. to be with the Saints, as was related in the history of Drusilla Dorris Hendricks. They moved to Nauvoo, Ill. in 1840 after much persecution in variousplaces. Here she probably began her schooling. They moved with the Saints to Winter Quarters (now Council Bluffs) and finally crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley, reaching there 4 Oct. 1847. They suffered many privations and hardships as are mentioned in the autobiography of her mother. It was probably while the Hendricks family were living at the Warm Springs Bath House north of Salt Lake City, that Rebecca met Hiram Abiff Watson, who came to Utah en route to California in 1850. He and Rebecca, who was sixteen and a half, were married. It is likely that they lived at first with the Hendricks family. Hiram was a carpenter by trade. The only other information concerning this marriage is taken from the words of Rebecca's mother: "Rebecca's husband went back east on a mission and stayed for one year. Wrote good letters. He thought he could live his religion there as well as here and wanted her to go to him or if she desired, he would come and fetch her. She wrote him that she would neither go with or without him from the Church, for in it were all our hopes." As Hiram did not return to Salt Lake City, they were divorced and Rebecca was left to raise her baby alone. Sometime between 1854 and 1856, Rebecca met Samuel Roskelley, who was a convert from England. He had been in the employ of President Brigham Young and may have brought some of the President's family to Warm Springs, or she could have met him at any of the many church functions they attended. In 1856 Samuel was called on a mission to his native England. Just one month after his arrival home in 1858, Samuel and Rebecca were married. They moved to Provo for a short time, but soon returned to Salt Lake City. The following Spring Samuel and his brother-in-law, William Thomas VanNoy bought a shingle mill and water power on North Mill Creek and made shingles for which they had good sale. In the Spring of 1860 Samuel and Rebecca, together withthe rest of the Hendricks family, upon the advice of President Brigham Young, moved north to Cache Valley to open up farms. With the arrival of these families in 1860 a permanent fort was built in Richmond for protection against the Indians. The fort consisted of two rows of houses running east and west facing each other with corrals and sheds for livestock back of the homes. In 1862 Samuel Roskelley was made bishop of the Smithfield ward and in Jan. 1863 they moved to Smithfield, Ut. Here they had a fort built similar to that in Richmond. The houses were of logs. Outside the fort considerable farming and irrigating was being carried on. There were few aspects of the growth of Smithfield in which Samuel Roskelley and his wives did not take part. Rebecca, with her big house, was responsible for entertaining visiting apostles and other Church dignitaries while in Smithfield. Samuel was made mayor of Smithfield in 1870 in addition to the many offices he held in various companies. Thus most of the rearing of the family must have fallen on Rebecca. But it has been said that Samuel, Rebecca and the other wives were good managers, and considered the waste of time a very grave thing. Rebecca was made a counselor in the Y.W.M.I.A. which was organized in 1875. She also was made a counselor in the Primary Association when it was organized in 1879. [S36] Cooper, Brian, Henry Hendricks Reunion 2000 CD v 2.0., Red Book Pictures, James and Druzilla Family Bible. Plate 5. Drusilla was marridde May the 31 ad. 1827.