from Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude 1779
BIRTHDATE: 6 Dec 1856, Hemel-Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
DEATH: 18 Dec 1932, Vernal, Utah
PARENTS: George Coleman, Elizabeth Bailey Coleman
PIONEER: 26 Oct 1864, William Hyde Wagon Company
SPOUSE: Siney Lewis Sr.
MARRIED: 5 Jan1874, Salt Lake City, Utah
DEATH SPOUSE: 28 Nov 1929, Vernal, Utah
CHILDREN: David 23 Nov 1874, Leonora 16 Aug 1876, Annie Elizabeth 8 May 1878, Minnie "C" 21 Sep 1880, Siney Jr. 6 June 1883, Franklin "C" 22 Jul 1885, Mary 25 Nov 1887, Georgianna 12 Jul 1890, Charles Preston 3 Mar 1892, Aaron 17 Jan 1894, Birda 9 Jun 1899, Jennie 6 Dec 1900
"Elizabeth Coleman Lewis was born in England, the tenth child of a family of eleven children. Her parents kept a little shop and sold grocery items and fuel. They were thrifty middle-class people. Elizabeth had some schooling. She learned to make lace with bobbins and to prepare the straw to make straw hats. Mormon missionaries converted the family in 1844. Elizabeth was seven years of age when she came to Utah with her parents, a brother and two sisters. The family sailed from London on the ship "Hudson" on 3 Jun 1864 and landed in New York. Elizabeth was very ill with Mountain Fever for many weeks after they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 26 Oct 1864. she had walked most of the way across the Plains. They made their home in the Holladay area of the Salt Lake Valley."
"They suffered extensively from poverty and hard work. Elizabeth showed a great aptness in using her hands, harmonizing colors into beautiful articles such as hair nets, hair wreaths, fancy work, wool flowers and straw flowers. She became very skilled in braiding straw for hats. On 5 Jan 1874, at age seventeen, Elizabeth married Siney Lewis, Sr. in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was eight years her senior. In order to help out financially, Elizabeth knit stockings and gloves. She also took in washings for a family of twelve. with the money she bought a sewing machine to sew overalls for Z.C.M.I. department store. She often had to sit up sewing by candle light until one or two in the morning in order to reach the quota assigned to her. She shared the machine with her husband's plural wife."
"Elizabeth was never satisfied without accomplishing something each day. Even when old she never lost her pride even though much of what she did was drudgery. her poetical nature craved pretty things: a pretty handkerchief, a piece of good jewelry, a bit of lace, some mild perfume. She was of a religious nature and had great faith in prayer. She taught her children to rely on the Lord. She was loving and loyal to her family. She and her husband were married for 55 years. She gave birth to twelve children; five sons and seven daughters. Two died in childhood and three were born prematurely. When her daughter, Minnie, died at the age of forty-five Elizabeth went to her home and cared for her husband and eight children. She became more and more grief-stricken and soon became desperately ill. She lived three years after that, but was never entirely well again. Elizabeth died 18 Dec 1932 in Vernal, Utah just for years after her husband. Her daughter, Mary, wrote this tribute about her mother. 'My mother was not a public worker. A woman rearing twelve children of her own and two of another woman's had very little time. To me, her life was a beautiful tapestry - the tones subdued and blended with only a bright spot here and there for variety.' Elizabeth is loved and revered by her posterity."
BIRTHDATE: 6 Dec 1856, Hemel-Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England
DEATH: 18 Dec 1932, Vernal, Utah
PARENTS: George Coleman, Elizabeth Bailey Coleman
PIONEER: 26 Oct 1864, William Hyde Wagon Company
SPOUSE: Siney Lewis Sr.
MARRIED: 5 Jan1874, Salt Lake City, Utah
DEATH SPOUSE: 28 Nov 1929, Vernal, Utah
CHILDREN: David 23 Nov 1874, Leonora 16 Aug 1876, Annie Elizabeth 8 May 1878, Minnie "C" 21 Sep 1880, Siney Jr. 6 June 1883, Franklin "C" 22 Jul 1885, Mary 25 Nov 1887, Georgianna 12 Jul 1890, Charles Preston 3 Mar 1892, Aaron 17 Jan 1894, Birda 9 Jun 1899, Jennie 6 Dec 1900
"Elizabeth Coleman Lewis was born in England, the tenth child of a family of eleven children. Her parents kept a little shop and sold grocery items and fuel. They were thrifty middle-class people. Elizabeth had some schooling. She learned to make lace with bobbins and to prepare the straw to make straw hats. Mormon missionaries converted the family in 1844. Elizabeth was seven years of age when she came to Utah with her parents, a brother and two sisters. The family sailed from London on the ship "Hudson" on 3 Jun 1864 and landed in New York. Elizabeth was very ill with Mountain Fever for many weeks after they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 26 Oct 1864. she had walked most of the way across the Plains. They made their home in the Holladay area of the Salt Lake Valley."
"They suffered extensively from poverty and hard work. Elizabeth showed a great aptness in using her hands, harmonizing colors into beautiful articles such as hair nets, hair wreaths, fancy work, wool flowers and straw flowers. She became very skilled in braiding straw for hats. On 5 Jan 1874, at age seventeen, Elizabeth married Siney Lewis, Sr. in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was eight years her senior. In order to help out financially, Elizabeth knit stockings and gloves. She also took in washings for a family of twelve. with the money she bought a sewing machine to sew overalls for Z.C.M.I. department store. She often had to sit up sewing by candle light until one or two in the morning in order to reach the quota assigned to her. She shared the machine with her husband's plural wife."
"Elizabeth was never satisfied without accomplishing something each day. Even when old she never lost her pride even though much of what she did was drudgery. her poetical nature craved pretty things: a pretty handkerchief, a piece of good jewelry, a bit of lace, some mild perfume. She was of a religious nature and had great faith in prayer. She taught her children to rely on the Lord. She was loving and loyal to her family. She and her husband were married for 55 years. She gave birth to twelve children; five sons and seven daughters. Two died in childhood and three were born prematurely. When her daughter, Minnie, died at the age of forty-five Elizabeth went to her home and cared for her husband and eight children. She became more and more grief-stricken and soon became desperately ill. She lived three years after that, but was never entirely well again. Elizabeth died 18 Dec 1932 in Vernal, Utah just for years after her husband. Her daughter, Mary, wrote this tribute about her mother. 'My mother was not a public worker. A woman rearing twelve children of her own and two of another woman's had very little time. To me, her life was a beautiful tapestry - the tones subdued and blended with only a bright spot here and there for variety.' Elizabeth is loved and revered by her posterity."
Elizabeth Coleman and Siney Lewis Sr. January 5, 1874, Salt Lake City, Utah Caption reads: "My father and mother on their Wedding Day."
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