Anna Hampton was born March 26, 1840 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Benjamin Hampton and Patience Schull. She was the 3rd of 5 children. Anna's family moved to Missouri in 1846. It looks like they lived in the St. Louis area. It is not know when the Hampton family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It could have been before or after their move to Missouri. Evidence suggests that Anna was baptized in 1851 at the age of 11.
When the Saints when west, Anna traveled separately from her family. She traveled with the Charles Tuckett family in the Moses Thurston handcart company. They left Mormon Grove, near the Kansas/Nebraska border on July 4, 1855 and arrived in Salt Lake City on September 28, 1855.
Anna married Rhanaldo Mowry on February 14, 1856 in the Endowment House. In 1857, Rhanaldo returned to California in hopes of getting his family to move to Salt Lake City. He didn't know that Anna was pregnant. When Rhanaldo and his mother arrived in Utah on November 3, 1857, he was surprised to meet his baby daughter, who was born a couple of weeks earlier. They named the baby Ruth Walkup, after her grandmother. Ruth married Joseph Bywater and is my Great Great Grandmother.
Anna and Rhanaldo had 9 children together, the last in 1878. For some reason, they divorced and Anna married John Sharp and she passed away in 1898 at the age of 58.
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