Jane Benson Perkins PB

I ordered Jane's PB on the church's website and it arrived today. It was done in Manti, Utah 4 June 1896. She was working in the Manti Temple at the time. I checked the 1900 Census and she is living alone in Manti. John died in 1870 and she never remarried.

Jane was born 4 July 1824 in Wrightington, Lancashire, England. Her family joined the church in 1837 when the first missionaries went to England. About 1847 she married Amos Fielding and a year later they had a son, Amos Hyrum.

They finally left for Zion to join all the other saints. Amos was the PEF (Perpetual Emigration Fund) officer, so he left on an earlier boat. Jane and her son arrived later in St. Louis, Missouri, where they found Amos had taken another wife. When they arrived Brigham Young immediate granted a divorce for the abuse Jane and her son had to live through while crossing the plains. Jane became the second wife of several men at different times, but eventually ended up in Parowan living with her brother's family.

In 1860 John Perkins was sent by Heber C. Kimball, three days after he arrived they were married. John died 10 years later, Jane wrote in her journal that John was her favorite husband. After all her children were married off, she moved back and forth between Mancos, Colorado and Monticello, Utah, until she went to Manti to become a temple worker. She died in Mancos on 5 December 1900.

After emailing a copy of the PB to another relative who has been doing research on this family he told me that Jane had 4 PB, which I didn't know you were allowed to have. I thought you could only have one, but I guess in the Pioneer days they let them have more than one. This one is #3. When I get a copy of the others I will post those. I will warn you if you try to read this, there is no punctuation, it's just one long run on sentence.