Juletta Eames Hancock

Birth Date and Place: November 6, 1806, Mentor, Lake County, Ohio
Father: Benjamin Eames
Mother: Julia Bacon Eames
Spouse: Alvah B. Hancock
Death Date and Burial: August 28, 1888, Burrville, Sevier Co., Utah

Children: Birth date Death Date
Abigail April 3, 1825
Sarah November 3, 1826
Benjamin April 24, 1830
Joseph Warren October 12, 1832 1912
John Turney June 18, 1835 (died at age 17)
Aurilla April 2, 1838 (died as a child)
Cyrus Mortimer June 6, 1841
Martha Angeline September 30, 1846

Juletta was baptized in 1830, by Parley P. Pratt. She married Alvah Benjamin Hancock in 1823 and they had 8 children (the youngest was just ten months of age when her husband died at Mt. Pigsah). Their first four children were born while they lived in Ohio. They lived in Clay County from 1835 through 1838 in Missouri, where their next two children were born.

Then they moved to Iowa from 1841, remaining there until 1846, where their last child was born. It is reported that her husband signed a petition in 1840 estimating mob damages of $4,500 for 140 acres in Jackson, Clay and Caldwell Counties in Missouri.

Sometime after the death of her husband, Juletta left with the saints for Utah. Her family moved into the middle part of the state. She was a member of the Payson Ward in Utah County.

She lived to be nearly eighty-two years of age. She died in Burrville, Sevier County, Utah. She had endured the tremendous hardships of Clay County, Nauvoo and the trials of crossing the plains with her children by herself; a true pioneer woman of great faith and extreme fortitude.

This information gathered at the Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Museum in Salt Lake City. Information originally submitted by:
Inez Barker-Fruit Heights, UT
Published in Women of Faith & Fortitude

Compiled by Kari R. Kirk 2008