James PASS

                   Vb-B-1-32-22

The Thomas Pass family moved to Salt Creek (Nephi) during the summer of 1852.

Came to the US on the ship Antarctic in 1863 with Sarah, Sarah, Susannah, , Mary A., and Mary E. and his son Thomas

«b»Naturalization«/b» - Thomas Pass - Minute Book - Vol. 2 Pg. 95 - District Court, Provo, Utah - Naturalization 21 February 1882, Witnesses John Sidwell and Thomas Wright

After being baptized the family saved money to go to Zion and on 23 May 1863 they sailed for America on the ship Antarctic.  After 48 days they landed in New York and from there rode in cattle cars to Florence, Nebraska.  On July 25th they left by ox-team in Captain Peter Nebeker's Company for the Salt Lake Valley, a thousand miles away to the west. The family moved south to Nephi in Juab County.  For several years they lived inside the fort wall in a dug-out. Later he father built one of the first adobe houses inside the fort.

«b»1880 Census - Nephi, Juab, Utah«/b» - FHL Film 1255336 - NARA Film T9-1336 - Pg. 388B
Thomas Pass - self - male - married - white - 67 yrs - born England - Occ: Railroad hand - Father born England - Mother born England
Mary A. Pass - wife - female - white - 68 yrs - born England - Occ:Keeping house - Father born England - Father born England
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History written by Pearl Snow«/b»
Thomas Pass born June 16, 1812 at Branacheshire, England ???, son of James Pass and Betty Rawlingson. Baptized 1840 by James Hawkins, confirmed by John Banks, was a High Priest in the church. Mary Ann Pass was born January 8, 1812 at Chorley Lancashire, England. Baptized 1840 by Jas. Hawkins - confirmed by John Banks 1840 was the daughter of James Warmby and Elizabeth Kirk. They were both rebaptized on October 17, 1875 by Joel Grove at Nephi, Utah. They were married May 1837. They joined the church on July 20, 1837. On May 23, 1863, they prepared to come to this country at age 51 was 48 days on the water, ship the Atlantic under John Nerdman, landed in New York July 10, 1863 went in cattle cars to Florence, Nebraska. They left there in July 25, 1863 in Peter Nebeker's Company, arrived in Salt Lake City, Friday September 28, 1863. Brother Jacob Bowers went back and helped bring the family to Salt Lake City took 60 days to come to Nephi. Thomas Pass the only son was 12 years old. It was 23 years after they joined the church before they came to this country.  All these years, they had a home for the elders. Brother C.W. Penrose was the outstandling elder.  Their children were Elizabeth, Harry, . . . When they first came to Nephi, they lived in the fort which was taken down in 1854. They then lived in Brother Hawkins Place where Frank Sells store now stands, then in a dugout, also in the South part of town where the home of Andrew Blackett was.  It was an adobe room and this stood until after the home was sold and was then torn down. He died July 2, 1899, age 87 years 7 days old.

Baptized 1840 - rebaptized 17 Oct 1875
Notes from grandma gave birthdate as 15 June 1912
T. Pass and M.A. Warmby married May 1837 - Thomas Pass died 2 July 1899 - M.A. died 15 May 1888«b»

Find a Grave«/b» - Thomas Pass - born 21 June 1812 - died 2 July 1899 - children: Thomas Pass (1856-1938) - buried in Vine Bluff Cemetery, Nephi, Juab, Utah - Plot Vb-B-1-32-22
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Utah Cemeteries and Burials Database -
«/b»Thomas Pass - born 15 June 1812 in Stockport, England - died 2 July 1899 - buried in Nephi Vine Bluff Cemetery - source: sexton/grant - Grave location: Vb-B-1-32-22 - Relatives: Mother: Elizabeth Pass - Father: James Pass

«b»History of the Pass Family written by Blanche Burton Hesse«/b»
On 28 May 1837, Thomas Pass, born 21 June 1816 in Stockport, Cheshire, england, was married to Mary Ann Warmby in the Episcopal Church.  Mary Ann was christened 17 January 1819 in chorley, Lancaster, England.  On 26 February 1843, they were both baptized and became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Lancaster, England.  Mary Eleanor, the seventh of their ten children was born 28 July 1851 in Heaton Norris, Mancester, Lancaster, England, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 8 May 1863.  Manchester was an industrial center and Thomas and his children worked in the cotton mills there for long hours and for very little pay.  From the time of their conversion, they were determined to go to America.  About twenty years later, they were able to do so.  On 23 May 1863, they sailed from England on the Ship Antarctic, and on July 25th left in Captain Peter Nebeker's Company by ox-team for the Salt Lake Valley, which was over a thousand miles to the west.  All of the able-bodied in the camp were requir4ed to walk and according to the Pass family history, Mary Eleanor, twelve years of age, walked all the way.  After sixty long day across the prairie and over the mouontains, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on 25 September 1863.  Seven days later they went directly to Nephi where they lived in a one-room adobe house on the west side of Main Street until Thomas was able to build a dug-out home in the southwest part of the town.  (This information was taken from the Pass Family History, written by Joseph Greenhalgh.)

«b»Another History of the Thomas Pass and Mary Ann Wharmby Family
«/b»The Thomas Pass Family was living in England when the first missionaries of the Restoration brought the gospel overseas.  Thomas Pass was born in Stockport, England on 15 June 1812 and was the son of James Pass and Elizabeth Rawlingson, sometimes spelled Rollinson.  Very little is known of the Pass and Warmby families other than that of thomas and Mary Ann.  Mary Ann was born 8 January 1812 and was the daughter of James Warmby and Elizabeth Kirk.  Thomas and Mary Ann were married on Sunday 28 May 1837.  On 1 April 1839 this couple was living in Stockport and it is in this city that their children were born.

From records of the Pass family, we known that Thomas and Mary Ann were not of the wealthy class of people, but as members of the laboring class, they were neither in extreme poverty.  Of the ten children in Rachel's family, three died as infants, while six girls and one boy grew to adulthood.  All of the children and their parents, worked in the same factory and had to travel to and from work in a boat on the Mersey River.  Their history records that as soon as the children were old enough to go to work for a half shift period, they were called to do so and they arose early each morning with the help of Thomas and after breakfast they would all go to work.

Thomas and Mary Ann were baptized into the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840 just three years after Heber C. Kimball had opened the British Mission and three years after this couple had been married.  Elder William H. Dame and his companion David H. Cannon lved in the Pass home when preaching in their vicinity.  These elders were telling of the visions of Joseph Smith.  Among these visions was the one where the great prophet Moses appeared in the Kirtland Temple and restored to the earth the spirit of gathering scattered Israel from the four corners of the earth.

This family was dedicated to the gospel.  Each Saturday the family would turn the money they made over to Grandmother and she would set aside the rent money, the tithing, food, and money for a future date when this family would go to America and to Zion.  It was on 23 May 1863 that a port of the Pass Family left home in England to cross "the pond."  Not all of the Pass family chose to come to Zion.  Sarah, Thomas and Mary Ann's daughter, had a lover in Stockport.  The money had been spent and the time to leave for America had come, yet Sarah refused to come.  The family left this daughter in England.  Later, Sarah married James Sykes and they had five children.  Sarah Sykes was later baptized 13 March 1914. "The Antarctica" set sail from Liverpool, England on 23 May 1863 with 483 Latter-day Saints on board.  After riding the water for 48 days, she landed in new York on 10 July 1863.

As we know, Elder Dame brought Rachel to Utah.  The Pass family crossed the plains in 1865 without Thomas as he was working his way over.  Others must have helped this family cross the plains.  After landing in New york on 10 July 1865, the Pass Family went by rail to Florence, Nebraska.  In a few days the family left Florence with a train of immigrants on 25 July and for the next 60 days they followed the oxen and covered wagons to the Great Salt Lake.  The family went to Nephi where they made their home.  This couple helped build Nephi and this is where Mary Ann died in 1888 and eventually Thomas died in his bed 2 July 1899.  Thomas was laid to rest in Vine Bluff Cemetery in Nephi, Utah.  They entered the Endowment House and had been seal and their children have been sealed to them.