John joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 18 May 1840. He met Mary Ann Weston and they were married by a clergyman of the Church of Enlgand on 23 December 1840 in Saint Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucester, England.
John had a nicely furnished home in Tirley so Mary Ann and he went there to live. The Elders of the LDS church came to visit them in their home, but mobs would come to the house to persecute them. They were able to get the preacher out of the home unharmed, but John was knocked down and kicked several times. He was bruised internally and never felt well after that night.
His mother, Charlotte, did not like the Mormons and would come over to the house and would make John too anxious. They had to ask his mother to leave. John suffered and relapse and bled into his lungs again. He got weaker and weaker by the day. By the 14th of February, only six weeks after he married Mary Ann, he was confined to bed. Mary Ann never left his side.
On the 6 April 1841 John peacefully passed away. He was a newly wed of three and a half months. Mary Ann stated that he was a good kind husband and a faithful Latter-day Saint. He was laid to rest on the 10 April 1841 in a nice quiet corner of the Tirley, Gloucester, England graveyard. Mary Ann said that she never forgot the picture of that burial site.
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