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Show 4 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER The parents of Ann Mousley were from Londonderry, Ireland, and were also pre-Revolutionary migrants to America. Tall and erect, with a hearty Irish laugh, Ann and some of her children were baptized by Mormon missionaries in 1840.2 In the 1850s, when her children were growing up along the Brandywine, she often invited missionaries to stay with her and Titus, who remained a non-Mormon. Among these missionar ies was twenty-year-old Angus Munn Cannon, who was assigned to proselytize in the Eastern States in 1854. Born in Liverpool, England, and residing several of his boyhood years with his grandparents and uncles and aunts on the Isle of Man, Angus was the fifth in a family of eight children that was con verted to Mormonism in Liverpool in 1840. In 1842, when Angus was eight, the Cannons migrated to the Mormon city of Nauvoo, on the banks of the Mississippi River in western Illinois. Their mother died on the ocean voyage. Seeking work outside of Nauvoo, the father died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1844. Along with 16,000 others, family members were driven from their Illinois homes in 1846. Angus, an orphaned teenager, worked his way west. He was fifteen when he reached Utah. Angus was a participant in an exploring expedition to Southern Utah; worked as a typesetter for the Deseret News, the LDS Church newspaper founded in Salt Lake City in 1850; engaged in small-scale farming; and at age twenty was called on a proselytizing mission that took him to Delaware, where he met the Mousleys. He was an interested observer in Delaware when the Mousleys began their journey to the Salt Lake Valley in 1857. The next year, 1858, Angus himself was back in Utah, went Mousleys, and secured their approval to marry both to see the Sarah Maria and Ann Amanda, which he did on July 18, 1858. In her trousseau Sarah Maria had fourteen dresses and a chest of hand-woven linen which she had brought with her from Delaware. A plural marriage was neither uncommon nor illegal in Utah in 1858 and the Mousley sisters lived harmoniously in the same home in Salt Lake City for several years, helping each other rear their families. Angus later married additional women: in 1875, |
