The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Margaret
Surname: Evans

Gender: Female

Birth date: 15 January 1800

Birth place: Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales

Death date: 5 February 1886

Death place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Burial date: February 1886

Burial place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Father: David Evans
Mother: Eleanor Samuelson

Siblings

Francis, Benjamin (1802-1849)

Married 16 December 1828 in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales

Children

Francis, Ann Evans

Jones, Thomas John (1804-1886)

Married 22 April 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 26 February 1849 aboard the ship Buena Vista.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 19 April 1849.

Evans, Margaret - Margaret Evans (1800-1886): Biography

The Call of Zion by Ron Dennis

The picture is of Margaret Evans Francis and her granddaughter Amelia Francis Howells Johnson.

The "Deseret News" for 5 February 1886, p. 3, has this obituary for Margaret Evans Francis:

Death of an aged sister. As will be seen by a notice published elsewhere, Sister Margaret Francis Jones, of the 16th Ward, died this morning at the advanced age of 86 years. Sister Jones joined the Church in 1847 in South Wales and immigrated to Salt Lake City in 1849, and has lived in the 16th Ward ever since. She survived her first husband and all her children and proved a kind and affectionate mother to her grandchildren. She died as she was known through life, a faithful Latter-day Saint.