Chris has been processing photos and putting them in our Dropbox Family Photo Project.
I had to research them on Family Tree to see who they were. Many more histories there.
The parent's in the middle of the front row are my 2nd great-grandparents on my mother's side: James Anderson, Sr. and Hannah Matilda Cheney. They were married 153 years ago today, on New Year's Day, 1866 (if my math is correct??) in Fairview, Utah. They had 9 children. It appears my mom (Zada) and her mom (Hannah) were named after one of the daughters (Hannah Alzada Anderson), who is your direct ancestor.
The father, James Anderson, was born in Scotland. The mom, Hannah Matilda Cheney, was born in Salt Lake. Her parents were married in Nauvoo. Her father was born in New York and studied medicine and surgery and did dental work for all the nearby ranchers. It is reported that one lady who came from a distance, had Mr. Cheney remove all her teeth at one visit. No deadening of any kind back them.
In 1887, Mr. Cheney removed the thumb from the left hand of Josephine Peterson, then a little girl of 8 years. It had been ground between the cogs of a food chopper. No one could have done a neater or better job.
They traveled from Winter Quarters, Nebraska, on the 19th of June, 1847 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in early Oct. One of the first wagon trains to Utah.
