Temperance Westwood

Temperance was Henry's second wife and they were married in the Endowment house on March 18, 1856.
Temperance Westwood was born on Aug 19, 1838 in Bromsgrove, Worchester, England. When she was two, her family joined the LDS church and eight years later, in 1849, the Westwood family traveled to America. Temperance experienced many hardships in her childhood. Her brother died when the family was at sea. Then she lost her mother, father, and two sisters all in a matter of a few days. Her family now consisted of six children, and various people took them in. A few of the children were adopted and the others found work. Temperance work for the Roswell Field family where she tended after little Eugene. She worked there for 4 years and became very attached to the boy. Temperance and her brother traveled out west when she was 14, in 1853, with the Jesse E Crosby Company and after arriving in Utah, went to Springville.
When she married Henry, Temperance was sixteen years old. She lived in Salt Lake for a short while and then moved to North Farmington on a farm Henry owned. Henry traveled back and forth from Salt Lake to Farmington almost weekly. Together Henry and Temperance had 13 children, 7 boys and 6 girls. At one point, Henry wanted to move Temperance and their children to Woodland where his third wife, Mary Ann lived. However, Temperance was comfortable with her adobe home in Farmington. She said she loved her roses, trees, and garden and couldn't bear to leave. In 1882, the Edmands Act was passed that said polygamy was officially against the law, so it was probably good that the two wives lived in separate towns.
Temperance loved to read and her bookcase was full of encyclopedias, classics, fiction, etc. She smiled often and went about her work humming and singing. She loved working in her garden and could be found there most every morning.
All of her children but one grew up to get married and have families of their own. Temperance even lived to see her great-great grandchild. She passed away at the age of 83 on Sept 21, 1922.

Source: Moon, Richard Nephi, Maureen Moon LaPray, and Louise Moon Theibaud. The Family of Henry Moon Mormon Pioneer 1819-1894. Provo: Brigham Young University Printing Press, 2006.