Born: October 21, 1858 at Woods Cross, Utah
Father: James Kippen
Mother: Cathrine Watson Kippen
Married: Edward Freestone, January 19, 1888 at Logan, Cache Utah (Logan Temple)
Children:
Robert and Cathrine (Campbell) Kippen, my paternal grandparents, were natives of the Highlands of Scotland, where they lived and died. My grandfather followed the vocation of mason, as did two of his sons, including my father, James Kippen, who was born February 3, 1820 at Perthshire, Scotland, where he spent the first twenty-four years of his life. Then, on June 16, 1842, he became converted to Mormonism after listening to a Mormon missionary and was baptized at Mansadie Parish. Afterwards, although he tried hard to convert his relatives and friends, he was forced to sail alone for America without any friend or relative. In April 1844, he arrived at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he remained for some time. But in 1848, he fitted out an outfit and started for Utah, which he reached the same year. He did masonry work in Salt Lake City for a time. While there he placed the first rock of the old tithing building. And again, in the spring of 1850 he moved, locating in Bountiful, where he made farming and stock raising his vocations.
My mother was borned in the Lowlands of Scotland in 1837. Her parents were George and Cathrine (Taylor) Watson. She, Cathrine Watson, was about nine years old when her mother died. And near the middle of the nineteenth century, my grandfather, my aunt and my mother were converted to Mormonism, and left their native land for America. They landed at New Orleans sometime in 1851. While there my grandfather took a fever and died, leaving my mother and my aunt to reach Utah the best way they could. So they walked across the plains and arrived in Salt Lake City in 1853.
Some time after my mother's arrival in Utah, she and my father were married by Daniel H. Wells, They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom are living.
In 1878, my father was sent on a mission to Scotland, where he remained two years. After his return, he was ordained a High Priest and the latter part of his life was spent doing temple work. He died August 19, 1911 of old age and my mother soon followed him to the great beyond, for she met with an accident April 17, 1912 and died a week later on April 24.
My parents, James and Cathrine (Watson) Kippen lived the greater parts of their lives on a farm in Wood Cross, where I was borned October 24, 1858. I was reared like other children of that day, going to school in the district school house and attending the Mormon Sunday School in East Bountiful. And my education consisted of a course in the common schools, such as most people attended then.
On January 19, 1888 I was married to Edward Freestone in the Logan Temple. A few months after our marriage, we moved to Mountain Green, Morgan County. And during our residence there our five children were borned. When my youngest child was about two years old, I met with a serious accident, which almost ended my life, but through some miracle, I was allowed to recover from it. A few years after that occurrence, or in 1901, we moved to Bountiful, where we have since resided.
-from the Genealogical Record of Margaret Jane Kippen Freestone
Note: Pencil changes to dates were made on document as follows:
Birth year changed from 1858 to 1857
Marriage year changed from 1888 to 1887
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