First European Woman to be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Ann Elizabeth Wamsley was the first woman to be baptized in member of the Church. She is a Great Great Great Gma to Brett. Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Willard Richards and Joseph Fielding were sent to England to open that land to the preaching of the gospel. They landed in Preston England July 20, 1837. Reverend James Fielding, the brother of Joseph Fielding opened his chapel to the missionaries to preach the gospel, then seeing that he was losing his flock, he closed the chapel to them!!

Heber C. Kimball entered the home of Thoams Wamsley and found his wife very sick with Turburculosis from which disease she had suffered for several years. She was reduced to a mere skeleton, and was in a wheelchair, and the physicians had given up all hope for the continuation of her life for any length of time. Elder Kimball preached the Gospel to them and promised Sister Wamsley in the name of the Lord that if she would believe, repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of her sins, she would be restored to health and strength.

On the morning of July 30, 1837 in the river Ribble, which runs through Preston, England. Ann Elizabeth Wamsley was the first woman convert to receive baptism in England. She was carried into the water, and walked out of it unaided, being partially healed at the time. Shortly afterwards on the bank of the river at her confirmation the Elders rebuked her disease in the Name of Jesus Christ and promised she would be healed completely. In less than a week, she was going about her household duties.

Ann and Thomas Wamsley had five children while in England, two died and the other 3 came with them to America. They settled in Missouri and shared the persecutions and pivations of those trying times in the early days of the church. They moved with the saints to Nauvoo, where Thomas Wamsley died. He was 35 years old. She was left with 4 children having had a new baby. In 1844, married Isaac Palmer (which is how us Hatfield's come into the picture) Journal (Our Grandfather) was born in a wagon ten days out of Winter Quarters on their journey to Salt Lake. His name came from the word journey. Ann drove an ox and two cows across the plains. They came into Utah in 1849.

She was buried in Bloomington, Idaho where a monument was erected to her memory by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

So as you can see the pictures. Also, where Brett is pointing is the Great Grandparents of his Grandma Wynona Sanderson, whom he will always be grateful for the memories they made while he attended Ricks College. Wynona told him many many stories, he just got a picnic and took her to the mountains for a drive.