Martha Jane Davies

Born 18 September 1843 to Mary Sibley and William Davies
Married William Harmon 21 October 1876 in Salt Lake
Jane-Gwendolyn-Norma
Died 2 November 1909 in Salt Lake
Buried in Salt Lake City

1880 Census
1900 Census

This information was obtained from the research and notes of Norma Hatch Eastley and comes from the Hatch Family Book written and complied by Ephraim Hatch who spent a great deal of time preparing our ancestors' histories.

Jane Davies was born September 18, 1843, in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, the daughter of William Davies, the owner of a fish market. The father died of cholera in 1854 at the age of 53 in the midst of a terrible plague that swept through Europe. Coffins lined the streets, and carts would come and pick them up to be buried without funerals.

One of six children, Jane, and her mother, Mary Sibley Davies, were converted in the early days of the Church in Wales. While they were shopping they came upon a street meeting, stopped and listened to the LDS missionaries preaching the gospel. Mary Sibley Davies turned to Jane, her daughter, and said, "This is the truth." They joined the Church. Jane was twenty years old at
the time. Mary Davies later married a Mr. Poole. They had one child, Annie.

Jane met Richard Henry Thomas, another member of the LDS Church. They became engaged and decided to come to Utah so that they could be married in the temple. Jane's half sister, Annie Poole, immigrated with them. The couple was married in 1872 and a child was born to them in May of 1873. Jane suffered the loss, by death, of her husband in 1873, and her baby, Harriet, in 1875.

On October 21, 1876, Jane married William Harmon, a Welchman who had joined the Church in Wales and left his first family there to join the Saints in Utah. The children of this marriage were Richard Alfred, Gwendolyn, and Mary Annie.

After William Harmon's death in 1900, she resided in Salt Lake City, a devoted member of the Church, and died November 2, 1909.