Amanda Jane Cloward 1853-1926
2010
Amanda Jane was born in Provo, Utah County, Utah to Thomas Poulsen Cloward and Mary Page. She married Charles Gale as a plural wife in 1869 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her sister wife was Emily Blake Gale. Charles was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and had emigrated from England to America. Amanda’s parents were converts as well. Amanda and Charles were the parents of twelve children. Six died in infancy. Child number seven was William Thomas Gale who is the direct ancestor. Emily Blake Gale died three years after Amanda’s marriage to Charles Gale. Charles and both of his wives are buried in the Payson City Cemetery in Payson, Utah County, Utah. Amanda was born and died in Utah County, outliving her much-older husband by twenty-three years.