Margaret was born in Scotland on December 10, 1835 to George Galbraith I (1812-1840) and Ann Wilkie (1813-1875).
When Margaret was five years of age her father died of yellow fever on St. Kitts Island in the West Indies. He was serving the British Crown as a civil engineer. Her mother was also stricken with yellow fever but survived. After returning to England Margaret's mother married John Hooper and had four more children.
In helping to care for her new brothers and sisters, Margaret began the chief vocation of her life, that of mothering and caring for countless children. Besides rearing her own ten children, she was helpful with her husband's orphaned brothers and sisters, rearing some of the children of her husband's second wife, and two orphaned boys from England. Her husband met these boys when on a mission to England.
Margaret and her mother and family left England with an LDS group of converts under the direction of President Dorr Curtis. After landing in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 Mar 1854, they sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Missouri. From there, they went to Kansas and joined a compay of five hundred with fifty wagons, under the direction of Captain Daniel Cairns. They left for the journey July 1, 1854 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley October 3, 1854 where she met her future husband.
Margaret married Henry William Manning on 14 March 1855 and was later endowed and sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah on December 6, 1862. She was for many years the President of the Relief Society in Hooper. In the winter of 1896, she developed an abdominal cancer and was operated on for the lesion, on the dining room table of her niece, Mrs. George E. Browining, in Ogden, Utah. She recovered in spite of a surgical accident which caused cruel suffering for the rest of her thirteen years of life. She continued to serve as a nurse until she died June 12, 1909.
Margaret's husband survived her, dying April 28, 1916. The entire community of Hooper honored Margaret at her funeral.
Children of Margaret Galbraith Manning and Henry William Manning
1
Ann Wilkie Manning
Born: 19 February 1856 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Infant
Died: 30 May 1856 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah
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2
Joseph George Manning
Born: 15 Apr 1857 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
Married: Josephine Gwilliams on 18 January 1880
Died: 16 May 1937 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
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3
Margaret Ann Manning
Born: 11 June 1859 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
Married: Oliver Belnap on 6 January 1881
Died: 18 April 1894 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
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4
Henry William Manning Jr.
Born: 6 Aug 1861 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
Married: Eliza Jane Wadsworth on 3 January 1884
Died: 21 Mar 1932 at Clearfield, Davis, Utah
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5
Mary Ann Manning
Born: 14 February 1864 at Wilson Lake, Weber, Utah
Married: Henry Eugene Robinson on 19 February 1884
Died: 13 Mar 1924 at Paul, Minnidoka, Idaho
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6
Jane Wilkie Manning
Born: 19 May 1866 at Wilson Lane, Weber, Utah
Married: (1) Jedediah Ballantyne on15 February 1886 (D); (2) Samuel Reed Skolfield on 11 Apr 1897
Died: 11 Feb 1935 at Salt Lake City, Utah
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7
George Galbraith Manning II
Born: 24 Oct 1868 at West Weber, Weber, Utah
Infant
Died: 22 September 1869
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8
Violet Galbraith Manning
Born: 1 February 1872 at Hooper, Weber, Utah
Married: Robert Marchant Newman on 12 January 1899
Died: 9 Oct 1958 at Ogden, Weber, Utah
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9
David Galbraith Manning
Born: 15 February 1874 at Hooper, Weber, Utah
Infant
Died: 3 April 1874 at Hooper, Weber, Utah
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Lawrence Galbraith Manning
Born: 16 July 1875 at Hooper, Weber, Utah
Married: Florence Mabel Mitchell on 2 August 1915
Died: 22 June 1937
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Sources:
PAF - Archer files = Orson Pratt Brown + (2) Jane Bodily Galbraith < William Wilkie Galbraith + Emma Bodily < George Galbraith I + Ann Wilkie ; William Wilkie Galbraith and Margaret Galbraith Manning are siblings.
Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, DUP, Page 1868.
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