The Hayward Family

Right here in the midst of all these postcards, I will pause to post pictures of the five members of the Hayward family in 1908: father Henry, mother Elizabeth, Jean, Bess, and John.

There were six other children born into the Hayward family, but they were all deceased by 1908. Henry (1876-79), Emily Inez (1878-1879), Philip (1880-1891), Sidney (1883-1886), Martha (1885-1886), and Leah (1889-1905). It will probably be awhile before I post about the tragic deaths of so many children in one family. Most of the deaths were due to diphtheria, a disease that is now almost unknown due to the use of the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine.

Henry John Hayward (1852-1927)

Elizabeth Ann Pugsley Hayward (1854-1942)

Hazel Jean Hayward Wessman (1887-1959)

Elizabeth (Bess) Cripps Hayward Edwards (1892-1989)

John Ewing Hayward (1895-1988)


Thanks to Emily for sending the photos.

Jean Hayward in Germany, April 1908

Charlottenburg    Das Mausoleum (Inneres) [The Mausoleum (Interior)]

Dearest brother:- Here are the dead emperers [sic] and empresses, the grandfather & the grandmother & great grandparents of the present kaiser [sic]. I told you a long time ago in a letter about going out to Charlottenburg and seeing the place where they were buried. This postal doesn't give you much idea of the beauty of the place, but it is the best I can do. I am sorry I haven't sent you so many post cards lately, but I have had so little time. Tell papa I will write him sometime this week, perhaps Thursday. [On front:] Best love from Jean. Berlin, April 6, 1908.

Dearest sister:- I want to send you this post card just to show you what pretty cards they have here. We expect Mrs. K. today or tomorrow, but I can't say that I am anticipating her arrival with any great joy in my heart. It is a glorious day today & lesson day as well, but I do hate to have to stay in all day & work. Would like to be able to get out in just such an orchard as in this picture. [On front:] Best love, Sister

Königl. Kunstakademien, Hochschule für Musik

The royal Academy of High Arts [Fine Arts] and Music

Dearest brother:- Here's another card for you & I hope to send you a good many more before I reach home. I haven't tried to get your film yet but will before I get home. How's school by now? Give Mrs. Casady my love will you? How is the dog looking by now with all his wool off? Give him my regards.

[On front:] Best love from Jean    April 27, /08

[I don't know enough about the history of photography to know what kind of film she meant.]

Dearest mother:- I got papa's letter telling me when he sails & am in a state of intense excitement. Am wondering too who is coming in for the 3rd ticket. Mrs H has been awfully good since she came, have had no trouble at all. I intended to write you a letter today, but have been too busy with practice & harmony & German. I am going to write a letter of introduction to Mr. Cannon & send to you, also will write to Mr. Cannon, Miss P. will give me the address of a pension where you can stay in Paris & here as well. [?] have [?] pretty good now but am rather [?]. Hurrah for home!

Jean Hayward in Germany, March 1908

 

Berlin   Das Richard Wagner-Denkmal [The Richard Wagner Memorial]   Prof. G. Eberlein ... 1902 

This statue of the great composer stands on the edge of the Tiergarten and looks fine against the background of green trees. [The Tiergarten is to Berlin what Central Park is to New York City.]

 

 The dedication of the Wagner Memorial in 1903.

 

As you can see, the monument is now protected from the elements. The lyre held by the figure of Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser) has been broken, but otherwise the monument has remained much the same through two wars and the ravages of time and vandalism.

Dear mama:- Miss Gates & I are going up town today to get some railroad maps etc. so I will write to papa as soon as I can. I am hoping you are willing I should move, for really it gets worse & worse every day, and I know I will have to go if I want to do any work. I know you won't waste your money on a useless cablegram, but I am anxious to get your letter in answer to Miss Gates' before the first of April. I have a harmony lesson today and have an exercise to write so will say goodbye. Love to all from Jean.

Berlin          Blick vom Rathausturm [View from City Hall]

Dear brother:- Here is some more of Berlin for you to look at. Have you been getting the cards alright? I have sent you so many that I don't know what you have and have not seen of Berlin. Did the Kaiser and his family reach you?

Love from
Sister Jean

Jean Hayward in Germany, February 1908

Feb. 6
Dear brother: -

I am off to see a big exhibition of English paintings, as our room is being cleaned & we can't practice. I will try to write to mama today, but if I don't, will write tomorrow. We are well & happy.

Ths picture shows a parade of the emperor's soldiers.

Love from
Sister Jean

The emperor in 1908 was Wilhelm II, the last German emperor. Upcoming postcards will show various members of the royal family.

Dear brother:-

I do keep sending cards. I hope you get them all. The reason I never sent the film is because I never heard anything about it until the last letter. I don't think I should have forgotten it if I had received the letter and sample. We have walked to this platz many times. It takes us about half an hour there and the same time back. Bushels of love from

Sister Jean

The "platz" she mentions is Savignyplatz. Here's the route she could have taken from her home to Savignyplatz. When Jean was in Germany, Charlottenburg was an actual city rather than a part of Berlin as it is now.

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Jean Hayward in Germany, January 1908

As mentioned in the last post, Jean lived at Bamberger Straße (Street) 5 in Berlin. [The "ß" character in German is a double s.] Jean sent a postcard to her brother in January 1908 with a view of the street, and a small "5" inked in over house number five.

Jan 25
Dearest brother:-

Here comes another post card. By the time I start home you will have so many that mama will be burning them to get rid of them. This shows the street where I live and I have marked the house. Tell papa to hurry over. Love to every body and piles of love to yourself from

Sister Jean

Jean was 20 years old at this time, and John was 12. Less than a decade later John also traveled to Europe, but for a much different reason than his sister.

Jean Hayward in Germany, Dec. 1907

Here are two postcards Jean received and kept. The first is from Tracy Y. Cannon, who was one of the other Utahns living in Berlin:

 

 

 

Berlin, Dec 24/07.
Dear Miss Hayward:

Merry Xmas! Hope you have a right good time this holiday season. With best wishes [what's this word?]

Very sincerely yours,
T.Y. Cannon

The second postcard is from the "Carlsons" who were visiting Vienna. I do not know who they were. [Update: based on passport applications from 1907, the Carlsons were Charles Fredrick and Lulabel Eldredge Carlson. Lulabel was mentioned in Jean's biography by her maiden name, but she was married to Charles by the time they left for Europe in 1907. Lulabel was a pianist and Charles was a piano teacher. The first postcard says, "Graben gegen den Kohlmarkt, mit Dreifaltigkeitsschule, errichtet 1693." (Graben looking towards Kohlmarkt with a view of Trinity School, established 1693.) Here's a slightly amusing translation of a page about the area.]

Dear Jean:—

Just rec'd your welcome letter on this day Xmas, and we both send our love and best wishes for a very happy and successful New Year. May you accomplish great things in your music and derive great benifits [sic] is the loving wish of your friends

The Carlsons

Jean's address in Berlin was Bamberger Straße 5, and she boarded with a family named "Pincher" or "Pinches." I don't know how addresses in Berlin have changed in the past century, but Berlin has been through two major wars since Jean was in Berlin, and things likely look very different than when she was there. I tried to locate Alberto Jonas' address, but cannot find it in any Berlin city directories.

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The clipping on Cannon is from César Saerchinger, International Who's Who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity, New York: Current Literature Pub. Co, 1918.

Jean Hayward in Germany

Jean was born into a well-to-do Salt Lake City family. Her parents, Henry and Elizabeth Hayward, were active in the community and politics. In 1907 Jean traveled to Berlin along with her friend Rita Jackman and Rita's aunt Helen Kimball Tilton to study for the better part of a year with the famous pianist Alberto Jonás. The next August, she returned home with her father and her aunt Clara who had come to Europe to accompany her home. Her mother was otherwise occupied with political affairs and could not spend the time traveling. In November, Jean married Henry Wessman, who had encouraged her not to miss this wonderful opportunity.

This is Jean's passport application. It shows that she was 5 feet tall. The previous page in the passport application book was for Helen Kimball Tilton, and the subsequent page for Rita Jackman.

While she was in Europe, Jean sent a series of postcards to her family. A cousin sent scans of the postcards, and I will post them over the next several days. Here are the first two, sent from Dresden on December 15, 1907.

Dear brother:—

How do you like the looks of the King of Saxony's palace? We are at a hotel right close to the art galleries as well as the palace. This morning we saw all of the jewels belonging to the crown and we also saw one of the museums. It has been snowing ever since we got here yesterday afternoon and is very, very cold, but we have had a nice time. We go back to Berlin tomorrow night. 

Love from sister Jean.



Dearest Mother:—

This gives you an idea of the beauty of German gardens in summer. Of course we are seeing Dresden at a bad time of the year, but it is a very interesting city as it is so old & quaint. I wish you were here to see the art gallery; it would do your heart good. The Sistine Madonna is even more beautiful than you can imagine. We were very much disappointed in not being able to go to the Opera, but of course we weren't aware of the queen's having any intention of dying. The girls yesterday treated us just fine & seemed glad to see us. We are all well and happy & hope you all are.

Lots of love
Jean

(The address of the Hayward's home at 272 North 200 West is now occupied by more recently built homes.)

Important John Morgan Posts

To make this site more useful, here is a list of the most interesting posts about John Morgan and his family. It also includes a number of links to Ancestral Ties.


Early History

John Morgan—Early Life and Civil War
Birth and service in the 123rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment.

John Morgan Biography—Salt Lake City
John Morgan starts his college and marries Helen Melvina Groesbeck.

Robert Lang Campbell
The Salt Lake City man who befriended and baptized John Morgan and started him on his career in education.


Southern States Mission and Church Service

The History of the Southern States Mission
This is quite extensive. This history was published in The Latter Day Saints Southern Star, 1898-99. As of today it contains 34 posts. The index is here.

An Incident in the Life of President John Morgan
An adventure on the trains.

A Warning Sent to John Morgan
"We will not suffer you any longer to impose upon some of the ignorant men of this mountain."

Another Warning Note to John Morgan
"Runn Morgan Runn."

A Trip to Lookout Mountain
A missionary tells about a day trip to Lookout Mountain with President Morgan.

Looking Up Southern States Missionaries
A response to a question from a reader.

Service as a General Authority
A review of the article "The Seventies in the 1880s" by William Hartley.

Notes from Church Chronology
A timeline of the service dates of the First Council of the Seventies up to 1900 and some notes about John Morgan's service.


Genealogy

Where Did John Morgan Die?
In Matthias Cowley's home in Preston, Idaho.

Garrard Morgan III and Eliza Ann Hamilton Morgan, Part 1, (Part 2), (Part 3), (Part 4)

Garrard and Eliza Morgan's Children
How many siblings did John Morgan have, and why do the records disagree?

John Morgan's Brother James
Why does James Morgan show up in the 1880 Colorado census?

Garrard Morgan II and Sarah Sanderson Morgan
A history of John Morgan's grandparents with notes about his aunts and uncles.


Wives and Families

Helen Groesbeck Morgan

Annie Smith Morgan

Mary Ann Linton Morgan

John Morgan's Children
A list of the children from his three families.

John Sutton Linton
Why did John Morgan meet Mary Ann Linton?

Don't miss the information about the Morgan family on Ancestral Ties, in particular:
John Hamilton Morgan
Helen Melvina Groesbeck Morgan
Annie Mildred Smith Morgan
Mary Ann Linton Morgan

Garrard Morgan III
Eliza Ann Hamilton Morgan

James Morgan (These posts involved some real detective work.)

Garrard Morgan II
Sarah Sanderson

James P. Hamilton
Margaret (Peggy) Turner


Annotated Diary

John Morgan's Diary
November 17-22, 1888
November 23-26, 1888
November 27-30, 1888
December 1, 1888
December 2, 1888
December 3, 1888
December 4-5, 1888
December 6, 1888
December 7-8, 1888
December 9, 1888
December 10-14, 1888
December 15-18, 1888
December 19-23, 1888

See also Ancestral Ties, where Bessie is annotating more diary entries. She has the diary entries listed in the index under "JHM [date] journal entry" with all the entries from the year listed under the heading.


Sermons, Stories, and Correspondence

John Morgan to Garrard Morgan, Feb. 12, 1863
A soldier writes to his father.

Mother's Day John Morgan Civil War Letter
A soldier writes to his mother.

Heber J. Grant to the Morgan Family
A summary of a letter written to the Morgan family by Grant following reminiscences about John Morgan at B.H. Roberts' 80th birthday celebration.

Address Given May 23, 1881, in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
John Morgan talks about preaching the gospel in the Southern States and relocation of the converts to Conejos County, Colorado.

Address Given December 18, 1881, in the Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City
John Morgan talks about the Southern States Mission and the Colorado Settlements.

Missionary Experience on the Little Colorado—John Morgan's Death—A Miraculous Administration
A few pages from a Morgan book with some information about Mary Ann Linton Morgan.

John Morgan on the Southern States Mission
Morgan's notes on the mission of James T. Lisonbee.


Gravestones and Monuments

Morgan Family Gravestones
Photos of the gravestones in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

Gravestone Locations
How to locate the gravestones in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

The John Morgan Monument
Pictures and text of a beautifully restored monument located at 257 South Main Street in Salt Lake City.

The John Morgan Monument
The Southern States Missionaries take up a collection to provide a grave marker for John Morgan. Includes text of a letter published in various newspapers, signed by B.H. Roberts, J. Golden Kimball, William Spry, Elias S. Kimball and Ben E. Rich.

Obituary
As found in the Southern Star in 1900 compiled from several sources.

John Morgan Funeral Address by B.H. Roberts (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)


Sources

Sources on John Morgan
A list of sources about Morgan, his family, and the Southern States Mission.


(This was originally published Nov. 28, 2009, but I will keep moving it up as I add new Morgan materials so it shows up first in the index.)

Amanda Hall Wessman (1848-1931)

 

Many thanks to a friend for sending the obituaries and the picture of the Twentieth Ward Chapel where the funeral was held. Thanks to Toni for sending the copy of the death certificate.

Johan Bengtsson Wessman Letter Part 4

I dag har fått brev från Broder Westerberg. Han är i Makseka. Han sager att han intet kan fullkomma hennes önskan att låna henne 20 dollars tills vidare.

Today I received a letter from Brother Westerberg. He is in Makseka. He says he cannot fulfill her wish that he lend her 20 crowns for an indefinite period.

En annan ting får jag med sorg omtalla och det är att min kusin Petter på linholmen är i farten att öfvergifva Evangelet. Han har varit sjuklig allsedan i höstas, så han har intet ofta varit på församlingarna och dåligt kan han läsa sjelf, så han hade sakt till Alm at dett är desama antingen han går dit eller icke så blir han intet fruktare. Förde inga hälsningar denna gang utan ja tycker Sofi Lundgren börjar att grapna igen, ha hon har ingenting sakt till mig sedan. Jag sander nu till eder alla mina hjärtliga hälsningar. Må Gud bevara eder i från förhårda Pröfningar.

Another thing I will sadly relate is that my cousin Petter på Lindholmen is about to give up Evangelism. He has been sickly since last fall, so he has not very often attended the congregation and very poorly can he read to himself, so he had said to Alm that it does not matter if he goes or not, he would not be any holier. Did not send any greeting this time. I think that Sofi Lundgren is beginning to fail again. She has not spoken to me since. Receive my heartfelt greetings. May God protect you from adversity.

Tecknad av din trogna maka,

Your faithful husband,

Johan Wessman

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3