CATHERINE ANNA MARTIN
Catherine Anna Martin was born at Cap Coch,
Aberdare, South Wales, 18 June 1867, the daughter of
John Martin and Anna Jenkins. She left Wales
as a child of one and a half years along with her parents and her grandmother,
Anna Evans Jenkins and her family. They left Liverpool
on Tuesday, 30 June 1868,
on the steamship Minnesota.
They reached Salt Lake City 20
August and after staying there a few months her sister Mary Ann was born. Then
the family traveled on to Logan, Utah.
Here they spent the first winter. Late in 1869 they moved to Samaria,
Idaho where Catherine Anna grew to
womanhood.
She married Lorenzo Campbell 14 January 1886 at Samaria.
He was the son of Nephi Campbell and Mary Ann Leigh. To this couple was born
Mary Campbell 30 January 1887.
When Mary was a baby her mother had milk leg. When the child was six months old
someone put her on her mother's lap while she was sitting in a wheel chair and
within a matter of minutes Mary took a convulsion and died.
Her first husband, Lorenzo Campbell, died 19 April 1890. Sometime later
Catherine Anna went to Pocatello, Idaho.
While she lived there she met William Wesley Warren Hoskins whom she married 26 March 1895 at Blackfoot, Idaho.
To them was born one son, George W. Hoskins, 20 November 1898 at Pocatello.
One summer she and her second husband ran her father's
farm. William Hoskins could speak Spanish so he thought it fun to teach her
little brother, Joseph, and his cousin, David Jenkins,
some of the Spanish swear words. They could also say a few sentances
[sic] in Spanish and thought it wonderful to say something in another language
besides the little they knew in Welsh.
Later, Catherine Anna and her husband moved to Montpelier,
Idaho where he went into business and
prospered. He was a very good provider and a first rate husband and father.
They had been married about thirteen years when William died, 31 December 1908 at Montpelier.
James Wilson Hoskins came to his brother's funeral. As
time passed and since he was a widower, he began to take an interest in
Catherine Anna. They were married on 7
June 1911. James had a son Harry and Catherine Anna had George;
therefore, she reared the two boys.
Aunt Katie was not talkative about her affairs but she
was a good housekeeper and an excellent cook. She had nothing to do with the
Church. She was principally a housekeeper and was satisfied with that. She was
good company and, like her brothers and sisters, had a good singing voice.
One winter with her third husband, James Wilson Hoskins,
she again visited Samaria and spent
most of it there visiting her family and old friends. They were well liked by
all the people. She passed away 10
July 1854 at the age of eighty-seven and was buried at Montpelier
14 July 1954.
- Anna Davis T. Harris, Niece
