Saturday, August 4, 2012

MARY ANN ZWICKER (JOST) 1811-1888

[Ancestral Link: Lura Minnie Parker (Stagge), daughter of Minnie May Elmer (Parker), daughter of Mary Ann Jost (Elmer), daughter of Mary Ann Zwicker (Jost).]

Birth: July 19, 1811
Nova Scotia, Canada
Death: May 10, 1888
Ogden, Weber County, Utah






Ogden City Cemetery


1875 Monroe Blvd.
Ogden, WeberUtah




Ogden City Cemetery
Burial: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA - Plot: B-2-3-2W

found on findagrave.com

HISTORIES OF THE ANCESTORS OF JOSEPH PARKER AND MINNIE MAE ELMER PARKER
MARY ANN ZWICKER JOST

Mary Arm Zwicker was born 19 July 1811 in Lunenhurg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. She married John Alexander Jost 4 May 1834 in Lunenburg, Lunenhurg, Nova Scotia, Canada, they were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah 29 October 1859. She died 10 May 1888 in Ogden. Weher, Utah.

Her father Joim Daniel Zwicker was born 12 March 1772. of Blockhouse. Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Canada he died 21 December 1859, Mahone Bay. Nova Scotia, Canada. Her mother Mary Elizabeth Rodenheer, horn 13 May 1 777, of Blockhouse. Mahone Bay. Nova Scotia. Canada she died I May 1815, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Canada . 

There is no written history of Mary Ann Zwicker Jost. Her husband wrote a very comprehensive journal of their lives when they joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and left Nova Scotia to join the Saints. The journal continues until they leave Atchison for Florence on Thursday June 1856. Mary Ann’s story is contained in the History of John Alexander Jost and their daughter Mary Ann as they leave the mid west and travel to Utah and then to Ogden.

Their children: 1. George Haliburton Jost, born 2 March 1835, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Died. 2. Eliza Ann Jost, born 29 July 1837, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died June 1855. 3. Alice Louisa Jost, born 7 July 1839, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died 8 Jun 1901, married 28 August 1856 to John Moroni Foy. 4. Mary Ann Catherine “Kate”, born 20 March 1841, Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died 18 December 1916, Mt. Pleasant, San Pete, Utah, Married 25 April 1858, to David Candland, married 10 May 1877, to Peter Rasmussen or Soren. 5. John Daniel Jost, born 27 November 1842 Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died 29 November 1923, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, married 8 March 1866 to Rachel McCowan. 6. Samuel Edward Jost, born 1 December 1944, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died 15 October 1922 Provo, Utah, Utah, married 2 April 1872 to Elizabeth Ann Baker. 7. Thomas William Jost born 24 December 1846, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, died 19 February 1917, married Annie Etherington. 8. Mary Ann or Minnie Jost born 29 December 1847 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, died 4 April 1925 Ogden, Weber, Utah, married 18 October 1869 to Mark Alfred Elmer. 9. Alexander Jost born about 1849 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, died before 1855. 10. Andrew Jost born 26 November 1852 Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, died 25 April 1921, married 23 August 1873 to Mary Ann Taylor.

This information of Mary Ann Zwicker Jost edited by Dorothy Toone Cook, 2008. Information gathered from her husband and daughter’s information and from the Paf file of Dorothy Toone Cook, great great granddaughter.

1 comment:

  1. This is my Great Great Grandmother! My Grandfather is George Delbert Jost who lived in Ogden and Kaysville.

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