Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman - Seek by Deseret Book

Chapter Thirty-Eight
“Weaned from the World”
Myra Mayall Henrie (1803–1893)
Donna Toland Smart
Biographical Sketch
Myra Mayall was born at Thurston Clough in Saddleworth,
Yorkshire, England, on November 1, 1803, at 7:00 p.m. 1
More than a decade before, Myra’s uncle Samuel Mayall had risked
his life in hiding himself and his plans for a woolen mill aboard a
ship to the United States; he built the first woolen mill in the United
States in 1791 in Gray, Cumberland County, Maine. 2 His family
followed later. Myra’s mother, Margaret Mayall, “married James
Radcliff when Myra was a child. Although the date and circumstances
are unknown, Myra migrated to the United States, and met
William Henrie. They married in Ohio on November 17, 1824, and
1. The information on her birth is embroidered in green yarn on a simple paper
sampler, now owned by a descendant.
2. Ben Butter and Natalie Butter, “The Mayall Woolen Mill First in the United
States,” Down East: The Magazine of Maine, September 1970, 29–35, 312.
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