BIRTHRATE: 19 Sep 1829  Moira, Franklin Co., New York

DEATH: 18 Aug 1901

PARENTS: Benjamin Bullock III

Dorothy "Dolly" Kimball

PIONEER: 1854 Wagon Train Company

SPOUSE I: Judge Williams

MARRIED: Not given

DEATH SP: Not given

CHILDREN: None

SPOUSE II: Jesse Thompson Hartley

 MARRIED: Not given

DEATH SP: Not given

CHILD: Jesse, 27 Nov 1854 (died as an infant)

SPOUSE Ill: Benjamin Morgan Roberts

MARRIED: 23 Nov 1856

DEATH SP: 1891

CHILDREN:

Benjamin Morgan. Jr.  !2 Aug 1857

Samuel Kimbal1  19 Nov 1858

Isaac Bullock, 24 Feb 1860

Mary Jane (Farrer), 18 Oct 1862

Dorothy Melissa (Carter), 5 Mar 1863

John Riggs, 29 Oct 1865

Sarah Ann, 11 Jun 1866 (died as a child)

 Sarah Ann, 10 Mar 1867

Martha Elizabeth (Nelson), 5 Feb 1868

 Electa, 17 Apr 1870, (died as an infant)

 Joseph Bullock, 25 Jun 1871

Martha Ann "Polly" Bullock was born in 1829 in the state of New York. She was the fourth child in the family. Her childhood was a happy one. She was taught how to work and to take responsibility in the home. She attended school, and received a good education as offered to the young people of that day.

At an early age, Mary Ann married Judge Williams in Moira, New York, but when the family left Nauvoo, because of religious differences, they parted company. The story is told that he gave her a little bag of gold as a parting gift and wished her well.

Mary Ann soon met a young dark eyed, dark haired man by the name of Jesse Thompson Hartley whom she married. Tragedy came to her family when her father passed away. Her father's death was a shock to Mary Ann who was in Kansas City with her husband.

They were making preparations to leave for the West when tragedy struck again when Jesse T. Hartley, her husband, was shot and killed. Mary was grief stricken. Her family was gone, her father dead and now her husband. She was expecting her first child. He was born shortly after her arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. He was named after his father. Nine months later, this little son died. Mary was indeed bereft. She found comfort with her sister, Jane, and her three brothers. Jane was located in Provo, and Mary Ann joined her there.

One of Mary Ann's brothers, Isaac, was called to preside over a mission for the Church at Fort Supply, Wyoming near Fort Bridger. He was to plant gardens, raise cattle, and build up the area to provide help for those com­ing from the East. It was also a mission to the Shoshone Indians as well.

On December 14, 1856, thirty-one year old Isaac married Electa Wood, later married a second wife, Ann, and took his two wives, and his widowed sister Mary Ann, on his mission to Fort Supply.

It was at Fort Supply that Benjamin Morgan Roberts was serving a mission among the Shoshone Indians. Benjamin met the wife of his choice in Mary Ann. It took persuasion on his part, and they were married on November 23, 1856; he was twenty-nine and she was twenty-seven years old. They began their life together in that area, and their first child was born in 1857, and it is said he was the first white child born in Wyoming.

When Johnston's Army came, they took possession of this place. These pioneers were called home. Later they

were called on a mission to the Muddy. They were returning home to Provo when Indians stole their mules and left them stranded near Cedar City. They finally returned to Provo when Mary Ann was expecting her last child, and Benjamin was forty-four years of age.

Mary Ann lived with her youngest daughter following the death in 1891 of her husband. Mary Ann passed away at age seventy-two on August 18, 1901.

Mary Ann was truly a great pioneer woman who loved the Lord, and had faith to follow wherever she was called to go. She left a great posterity who honor her for this faith and for her great fortitude in overcoming the difficulties she encountered during her lifetime.

Excerpt from Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude pages 2608 and 2609

Daughters of the Utah Pioneers