 Ann Llwellyn Lewis LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 2, p.350
Lewis, Ann Llewellyn, wife of Rufus Lewis was born April 21, 1839, at Myrther Tydvil, Wales, the daughter of Edmund Llewellyn and Mary Howells. She became a member of the Church in 1847 and emigrated to America in 1856, crossing the ocean in the ship "Samuel Curling," and, together with her brother Edmund, pulled a handcart all the way across the plains, in Capt. Edward Bunker's handcart company, which arrived in Salt Lake City, Oct. 2, 1856. She lived in Salt Lake City until the time of the move in 1858, when she located at Provo and stayed there five years, working for several families. In 1861 she became the wife of Rufus Lewis, to whom she subsequently bore ten children. After the removal of the family to Goshen in 1868, Sister Lewis took an active part with her husband in raising a large family of children, and after the death of her husband in 1889, the whole responsibility of raising and taking care of the family rested upon her. She has been a diligent worker in the Relief Society and throughout taken a most active part in Church matters. |
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