AMY BELLE PORTER HART

Born:              January 9, 1886 at Porterville, Morgan, Utah 

Father:            John P. Porter

Mother:           Amy Zenora Porter

Married:          George Cartwright Hart on January 9, 1907 at Salt Lake City

                        (George C. Hart born 6 Sept 1881 at Bountiful, Utah)

Children:

   George Kenneth Hart, born 17 Jan 1908 at Bountiful, Utah

   Thelma Belle Hart, born 15 Sept 1909 at Bountiful, Utah

   Amy Althea Hart, born 27 Nov 1911 at Bountiful, Utah

   Vestah Zenora Hart, born 22 Jan 1914 at Bountiful, Utah

   [Note: additional children born after this was written]

Historical Sketch of Amy Belle Porter Hart

            I was born in a small village called Porterville, getting its name from my great grandparents, they being the first settlers there.

            My great grandparents were all born and raised in America. They lived in Illinois for quite a while and while there was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. by the prophet Joseph Smith. [They] later moved to Utah and settled at Porterville, Morgan County and lived there at the time of their death. They were very religious and had many hardships. They erected a sawmill as soon as they were settled and engaged in sawing logs in which they built their own homes and sold to others, and in that way got along fairly well.

            In the year of 1847, my grandfather and grandmother, John Porter and Nancy Rich emergrated [sic] to Utah, crossing the plains in Charles C. Rich company.

            And arriving on Sweet Water River in Wyoming on the 4 day of Sept., 1847, my father John P. Porter was born to them. They arrived in Salt Lake Valley October 2, making him not quite a month old.

            And while there my great grandmother Nancy Oneal Rich died, being the first death in Salt Lake Valley.

            Later they moved to Centerville, Utah and erected a sawmill and engaged in sawing lumber.

            And from there moved to Porterville, Morgan Co., and run a sawmill there. On the 5^th day of October 1867 my father John President Porter married Amy Zenora Porter and made their home in Porterville, Morgan Co. And while there five sons and nine daughters were born to them, I being the tenth child.

            We lived on a farm in a small log house and had many hardships. When I was 9 years old my parents moved to Bountiful, Davis Co., where I now reside. I got my education in Bountiful District schools. I was babtysed [sic] in the Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S. when 8 years old.

            On the 9^th day of January 1907, I married George Cartwright Hart of Bountiful, making our home in Bountiful Utah, where one son and three daughters have been born to us.

            I am now working for the interest of my family, and engaged in the duties of a wife and mother.

Baptized July 8, 1894 at Porterville, Morgan, Utah, by Lorenzo H. Durant into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Confirmed July 8, 1894 by Joseph R. Porter

Church positions held:

   Sunday School Teacher in the Bountiful Ward, Davis Stake: about 1905-1907

   Librarian for Y.L.M.I.A in the Bountiful Ward, Davis Stake: about 1905-1907

   Counselor in the Primary Associatoin in the Bountiful Ward: about 1905 - 1907

   Teacher in Religion Class in the Bountiful Ward, Davis Stake: about 1905-1905

–from the Genealogical Record of Amy Belle Porter Hart

  written in approximately 1915