Charles and Charlotte Scott Weatherston History

The real story I don't have is how Charles Weatherston became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how he met his wife, Charlotte Scott.  That would be a real family treasure!

Charles Weatherston

I do know that Charles was born August 7, 1833, in Wooler, Northumberland, England, or so he used in all subsequent records.  In his mission journal published online, of which I have read the original personally, he mentions looking for his mother's records in the churches of the area in the 1880's and coming up with nothing. He never records any details other than her name being Agnes which is assumed to be Weatherston as far as I know. There is an Agnes Weatherston of what appears to be independent status in the 1841 England Census (transcribed as Matherston) with sons Charles age 8 and George age 4 in the All Saints district of Newcastle Upon Tyne in Northumberland. He is baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 29 August 1850, in England, and the next record I have found is the 1851 England Census where he is listed as a lodger aged 17 born in Walker, Northumberland.

Charlotte Scott Weatherston

Charlotte Scott is christened 5 May 1833, in Ampleforth, Yorkshire, England. Her parents are George Scott and Mary Grainger. She has seven siblings: three sisters and four brothers. In the 1841 England Census she appears to be with the Garbett family in Oswaldkirk in Ampleforth, Yorkshire. No occupation or relation is listed. I think I have found her in the 1851 England Census as a servant to the Whitton family at the age of 15 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, but I am not certain. She is baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 20 April 1851, in England.

They are married 20 February 1855, in Sunderland, Durham, England, and emigrate to the United States from Liverpool, England, on the Juventa 31 March 1855, with 571 other church members bound for the port of Philadelphia. It was reported as an uneventful crossing and according to the Millennial Star of 8 August 1855, it nullified the route through New Orleans which was never used again. The party traveled by rail to Pittsburgh to begin their cross country trip to Utah, but Charles and Charlotte did not go with them. They settled temporarily in Thomaston, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, where their first child, a daughter, Mary Agnes Weatherston is born 28 November 1856.  As he was a collier or coal miner in the 1860 US Federal Census, it is easy to assume that he worked in the coal mines there, and probably in the Shawneetown Quadrangle in Illinois. She dies in April 1858, in Jackson County, Illinois, where she is buried.

Charles and Charlotte Weatherston had joined the saints and lived in Township 10, Gallatin, Illinois. A son had been born to them also, Charles William Weatherston, on 10 December 1858, in Dorchester county, Illinois where they had just lost their daughter, Mary Agnes. They are listed as Mathuston.

July 1st, 1861, they left Omaha, Nebraska, with the Ira Eldredge Company of 186 individuals bound for Utah.  They arrived 13 September 1861, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

They eventually settled in Plain City, Weber, Utah, southeast of Willard Bay of the Great Salt Lake in the Ogden Valley.  Although everywhere else they lived he was a collier, in Plain City they lived their lives as a farmer and a housewife raising a family of ten, seven of which would reach adulthood and old age.  They can be found in the same house in the 1870, 1880, 1900, and Charles in the 1910 United States Federal Censuses.

He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when called by President John Taylor April 10, 1882. He left according to his journal May 9, 1882, with 19 men also called though two were specifically going to Mexico.  He specifically served in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England. He returned 9 April 1884 with 17 returning missionaries and 300+ emigrants on the SS Nevada on the first emigration sail of the season per the Millennial Star April 14 edition. He had been serving as the Newcastle area president.

The Millennial Star quotes his comments from a May 1883 letter regarding work in the conference:

Charles also reported September 5 1883 of some healings he was part of:

From the Minutes of the Newcastle and Durham Conference September 23, 1883:

The Millennial Star quotes a letter he sent regarding the work in January 1884:

The journal mentioned above was donated to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library and covers his mission from departure 9 May 1882 to 27 September 1883. I have no idea where the rest of his journal is which would have covered October 1883-April 1884. He landed in New York City 21 April 1884, at 9 p.m. A list of the costs and associated requirements of the voyage including the cost for an adult for travel to Ogden, Utah, were listed in the Millennial Star also.

Charlotte died 13 June 1901, in Plain City, Utah. She is buried a few blocks from home in the Plain City Cemetery.

Charles was married to a neighbor's spinster daughter, Hannah Maria Rawson 3 February 1902, by G. W. Bramwell, an elder in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  They would be married for ten years until she died 22 May 1912, in Plain City, Utah. She was buried near Charles' first wife, Charlotte in Plain City Cemetery.

Charles died 20 November 1916, of myocarditis and arteriosclerosis in Ogden, Utah, at his daughter, Matilda Weatherston Folkman's home at 2415 Jefferson Avenue (across from what is now Lester Park and the Weber County Library). He was buried in Plain City Cemetery alongside Charlotte Scott Weatherston, his first wife, son Parley Scott Weatherston, and second wife Hannah Maria Rawson Weatherston.