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A Fathers Journey of Love
Submitted By: George L Brinkerhoff | Pioneer: Jesse Brinkerhoff | Spouse: Clarinda Rosella Riley
This Story is about my grandfather Jesse Brinkerhoff, who was born, May 26, 1867 in St. George Utah. He was the 6th of 9 children born to James and Rebecca Hannah Hawk Brinkerhoff. First let me give some Brinkerhoff family history. The Brinkerhoff family in Ameri...
A Forgotten Pioneers
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Elizabeth Gaskell | Spouse: John Hiott
Many of the early pioneers who came to the Inter-Mountain West in the mid-1800s were individuals who drew little attention from later writers. Some of them, such as Elizabeth Gaskell, lived obscure, although interesting lives. She was born in Pennybridge, Lancaster, E...
A Great Pioneer Colonizer
Submitted By: Jay M. Smith, Jr. | Pioneer: William Frederick Rigby | Spouse: Elizabeth Eckersley
WILLIAM FREDERICK LITTLEWOOD RIGBY William F.Rigby was born in Yorkshire County England. His mother was Margaret Littlewood who was born on the Isle of Man off the English Coast. His father was Joseph Rigby, though Joseph and Margaret never married. Joseph ...
A History of James Brooks Wasden
Submitted By: Philip Asay Wasden | Pioneer: James Brooks Wasden | Spouse: Tilda Christena Christenson
History of James Brooks Wasden Transcribed by Philip A. Wasden. Phil is the grandson of James Brooks Wasden and Tilda Christena Christensen. James Brooks Wasden, son of John Brooks and Anna Sofie Olsen Wasden was born July 16, 1870, at Scipio, Millar...
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT ORR
Submitted By: Rodney Orr Chapman | Pioneer: Robert Orr | Spouse: Elizabeth McQueen
Robert Orr was born August 2, 1803 at Kilburnie, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was the son of James Orr and Anne Houston. He was an engineer by trade, being employed at one of the large woolen mills where wool fabric was woven. Robert married Elizabeth McQueen in Scotland...
A True Pioneer
Submitted By: Rodney Garth Dalton | Pioneer: Charles Wakeman Dalton | Spouse: Elizabeth Ann Heskett Allred
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF CHARLES WAKEMAN DALTON - By his great, great, grandson, Rodney Garth Dalton Charles Wakeman Dalton was a Farmer, Rancher, Sheriff, Constable, owned a store and a freight company. At the end of his life he was a butcher in Beaver City. He...
A Widow Supporting Her Family
Submitted By: Ray Don Reese | Pioneer: Jane Jenkins Howe | Spouse: William Howe
Jane Jenkins was born on 24 August 1806 in Wick , Glamorgan, South Wales. She married William Howe on 7 May 1833 in St. Brides, Glamorgan, South Wales. They made their home in Wick which is a small community near the sea. They were blessed to have four children born...
Abel Alexander
Submitted By: L. Johnson | Pioneer: Abel Alexander | Spouse: Sara Alexander
ABEL ALEXANDER BIOGRAPHY: ABEL ALEXANDER BIRTHDATE: 08 Jan 1822 Calne, Wiltshire, England DEATH: 30 Aug 1897 Woods Cross, Davis, Utah PARENTS: Henry Alexander & Mary Dolman Alexander PIONEER: 26 Oct 1864 William Hyde Wagon Company ...
Alanson David Allen
Submitted By: Elva Merkley | Pioneer: Alanson David Allen | Spouse: Chastina Hadlock
Alanson David Allen was born May 1, 1829 at Deposit, Tompkins, Dalaware County, New York. He was the son of Albern Allen and Marcia Allen. His parents joined the Church and moved to Missouri. Alanson knew and talked with the Prophet, Joseph Smith. He was within hearing ...
Albern Allen
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Albern Allen | Spouse: Marcia Allen
ALBERN ALLEN & MARCIA ALLEN Albern Allen, b 22 May 1802, Cornwall, Litchfield, CT, Md Marcia Allen, 1826, Hartwick, Otsego, NY, d 2 Jun 1867, Ogden, Weber, UT In a rapidly changing world, Albern Allen was born four months after Napoleon was elected Preside...
Allen Taylor, Captain
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Allen Taylor Capt. | Spouse: Phoebe Ann Roberts
We find very little information on Allen Taylor before his work as captain of his own immigration company. However, we know that he was 24 years old when his father passed away near Nauvoo. At that time, William had 14 children and Allen was the 2nd oldest child in th...
Amelia Jane Davis Blanchard
Submitted By: Darwin L. Salisbury | Pioneer: Amelia Jane Davis Blanchard | Spouse: Thomas Blanchard
AMELIA JANE DAVIS BLANCHARD In the spring of 1860, May 19th, a new baby came into this world. She was the second white girl born in Logan, Utah. She must have been a pretty baby, with a very pleasant disposition because her personality in later years showed su...
Amos Betts Andrews
Submitted By: SUP Library File | Pioneer: Amos Betts Andrews | Spouse: Keturah Eliza Button
History of Amos Betts Andrews. Amos Betts Andrews was born on 4 March 1800 at hitestown, Oneida, New York. He married about 1824 to Keturah. Button and had three children before they moved from New York to Kirkland, Ohio, in 1835, and were converted to the LDS Churc...
An Incident in the Life of George Wood
Submitted By: Jerald S. Bradshaw | Pioneer: George Wood | Spouse: Jane Wood
George Wood George Wood was one of the ironworkers sent by Brigham Young in 1850 to start the pig iron industry in Iron County. He was born in Darlaston, Staffordshire, England on November 13, 1822. He was baptized by Theodore Turley on June 8, 1840 and ordaine...
An Overlooked Pioneer
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: John Hiott | Spouse: Kathaline Harriet Jones
John Hiott was one of those who came to Utah alone, without family members and never had children after arriving. Although only fragments of his life are found in records, he must have lived an interesting, yet difficult life. He survived the handcart disaster of 185...
Andrew Allen
Submitted By: D. Adkins | Pioneer: Andrew Allen | Spouse: Elizabeth Lasley
ANDREW ALLEN WAS BORN 16 NOV, 1849 IN POTOWATAMIE CO. NEAR COUNCIL BLUFFS, Nebraska. HE WAS THE SEVENTH CHILD AND THE SECOND SON OF JUDE ALLEN AND HIS WIFE MARY ANN NICHOLAS.IN THE YEAR 1852, HIS FATHER AND FAMILY JOINED THE BENJAMIN GARDNER COMPANY AND STARTED THE LONG...
Andrew Lee Allen
Submitted By: Theda Judd | Pioneer: Andrew Lee Allen | Spouse:
Andrew Lee Allen: Andrew's mother died when he was nine years old. He went to live in Rochester, New Hampshire with his grandfather, Reverend Avery Hall and wife, Abigail. He learned the blacksmith trade and received religious instruction from his grandf...
Andrew Wood Cooley - A story of Devotion to Family
Submitted By: Jay M. Smith | Pioneer: Andrew Wood Cooley | Spouse: Mary Asenath Huntington
Andrew Wood Cooley was a descendant of Benjamin Cooley, a settler in Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1640s. His ancestors had moved westward through the years until they arrived in Michigan in the mid 1800's. It was from here that Andrew left for California in ...
Ane Nielsen - A Self Sufficient Pioneer
Submitted By: Louis M. Pickett | Pioneer: Ane Kirsten Nielsen | Spouse: James Peter (Jens) Olsen
ANE NIELSEN – A SELF SUFFICIENT PIONEER Ane kirsten Nielsen was the second child of Christian Sorensen Nielsen and Karen or Caroline Eskildsen. She had a sister, Maren, who was three and one half years older. The family lived In Skaabe, by Aarhus, Jutland, Denm...
Annie Rasmussen Christensen
Submitted By: Sydnee Halladay | Pioneer: Annie Rasmussen Christensen | Spouse:
The following is a letter from Annie to her parents in Norway. [Annie was also known as Annie Trondheim]. Fairview, Utah January 12, 1871 I will begin by sending a greeting to you for a Happy New Year from your daughter, Anne. Dear Father and Mother, I want to...
Arza Madsen Adams
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Arza Madsen Adams | Spouse: Sabina Clark
A muggy evening added to Arza’s discomfort with the chills and fever. Malaria had driven him to bed for several days, even though he had much work to do on his farm located just north of the village of Carthage, Illinois. It was dusk when William and John Barnes, two ...
Benjamin Cross
Submitted By: Ivan Y. Haskell | Pioneer: Benjamin Cross | Spouse: Roxana Matilda Powers
BENJAMIN CROSS and Family Benjamin Cross, was chosen to be the first bishop of Peteetneet Creek March 23, 1851 and was Ordained by President Brigham Young, also sustained by the members at the meeting with Heber C. Kimball and President Brigham Young in attend...
Biography of Robert Kenyon Green (1806-1884)
Submitted By: Shane A. Green | Pioneer: Robert Kenyon Green | Spouse: Fanny Greeley
DRAFT December 28, 2006 By Shane A. Green Early Days in New York Robert Green was born on 5 Aug 1806 in Tiscon, Onondaga Co., NY. His parents were Kinyon Green (1776) and Lucy Austin (1780). He was the third of twelve children. He married Fanny...
Blessings For Those Who Serve
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Joseph Stewart Allen | Spouse: Lucy Diantha Morley
Joseph Stewart Allen was born June 25, 1806 at White Town, Oneida (Cold Rain) New York. As a man, he was small in stature - about 5' 8" of blonde complexion, curly hair and unusually small feet and wearing boys size four shoes. He was a good mixer an...
Brief Life Story of Amos Cox
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Amox Jr. Cox | Spouse: Grace Ellen Chestnut
Brief Life Story of Amos Cox From the pen of Cleesa Cox Amos Cox born 8 October 1856 at Manti, Sanpete County Utah was the son of Orville Southerland and Mary Elizabeth Allen Cox. When Amos was a small boy they were called to go to the Muddy in Nevada and ...
Captain John Killian
Submitted By: Doug Gant | Pioneer: John Killian | Spouse: Lydia Ann Hopper
John Killian was born April 25, 1796 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. His father was Philip Killian and his mother was Mary Hoskings. Not much is known about John’s childhood. His family moved to Missouri after the War of 1812. They were among the first settlers ther...
Charles Jameson - Haun's Mill Survivor
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Charles Jameson | Spouse: Mary Ann Hedrick
Charles Jameson, b 28 April, 1803, Codorus, York, PA, m Mary Ann Hedrick abt 1823, d 19 Oct., 1886, Minersville, Beaver, UT Just as the United States doubled in size through the Louisiana Purchase, David Jameson and Magdaline Miller added to that number by the ...
Christopher Lister Riding, Tinsmith
Submitted By: Sydnee Halladay | Pioneer: Christopher Lister Riding | Spouse: Mary Ann Hale
Christopher Lister Riding was born February 10, 1816, in Burnley, Lancaster, England. At an early age Christopher was apprenticed to a tinsmith to learn the trade. He was very apt at this work and became a master mechanic before he was 21. He married Mary Ann Hale 1839....
Daniel Allen - A Life of Consecration
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Daniel Allen | Spouse: Mary Ann Morris
Daniel Allen was born on December 9, 1804, just one week after Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII. And this it was just 4 days after Thomas Jefferson was re-elected as President of the United States. We have little information r...
Daniel Rapalyea Allen
Submitted By: David L. Walton | Pioneer: Daniel Rapalyea Allen | Spouse: Eliza Martin
Daniel Rapalyea Allen Born: 2 August 1816, Newtown, Long Island, New York. Died: 23 January 1873, Salt Lake City. Daniel Rapalyea (or Rapyelle) Allen was born 2 August 1816, son of Robert Allen (born, 22 May 1784, Oyster Bay, Nassau, Queens, New York; die...
David Dutton Yearsley...Giving His All
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: David Dutton Yearsley | Spouse: Mary Ann Hoopes
David Dutton Yearsley & Mary Ann Hoops David Dutton b 3 Mar 1808, Thornbury, Chester, PA; md Mary Ann Hoopes 11 Sep 1830; died 1849, Rocky Ford, NE David Dutton Yearsley was raised in a prosperous religious family in Pennsylvania and belonged to ...
Doug Smoot, Modern-day Pioneer of Technology
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston (with permission) | Pioneer: Douglas Smoot | Spouse: Marian
Doug Smoot was born in Provo, Utah (1934), as were his father (1909) and grandfather (1878). His great-grandfather, Abraham Owen Smoot, was sent to Provo by Brigham Young in 1868, and was soon called by Brigham Young to be the first president of the Brigham Young Acade...
Edward Alma Bagley
Submitted By: Clell V Bagley | Pioneer: Edward Alma Bagley | Spouse: Mary Almeda McClellan
Edward Alma Bagley Edward Alma Bagley was born at Southampton, York, New Brunswick, Canada, the 10th of April 1847, the ninth of 12 children of Edward Cyrenius and Julia Ann Grant Bagley. Southampton is a very beautiful town, as is all of New Brunswi...
Edward Ashton
Submitted By: R. Walter | Pioneer: Edward Ashton | Spouse: Jane Treharne
Edward Ashton was born in Caersus, Parrish of Llangwonog, Montgomeryshire, Wales, 22 Aug. 1821. His father was Richard Ashton, born in 1796, in the same city and died in 1827. His mother, Elizabeth Savage was born in 1798, also in the city of Caersus, and died in Wales....
Elihu Marcellus Allen
Submitted By: Brent J. Belnap | Pioneer: Elihu Marcellus Allen | Spouse: Laura Foote
Elihu Marcellus Allen (by wagon) Name: Elihu Marcellus Allen Born: 14 May 1791, Cambridge, Washington, New York Died: 11 October 1850, Great Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Pioneer Arrival: 2 October 1847, Company: Jedediah M. Grant ...
Elihu Moroni Allen
Submitted By: Brent J. Belnap | Pioneer: Elihu Moroni Allen | Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Graham
Elihu Moroni Allen: Name: Elihu Moroni Allen Born: 9 October 1835, Greenwood, Steuben, New York Died: 22 November 1912, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho Pioneer: 2 October 1847, Jedediah M. Grant Company (by wagon) Captain Hazen Kimball 3rd Ten
Elijah Allen
Submitted By: Theda Judd | Pioneer: Elijah Allen | Spouse:
Elijah Allen His father was a prosperous farmer in New York State. After the family joined the L.D.S. Church, they moved to Kirtland, Ohio and towns in Illinois with other members of the Church, suffering many hardships. When still in his teens, Elijah le...
Elijah Newman-Pioneer
Submitted By: Doug Gant | Pioneer: Elijah Newman | Spouse: Letha Jane Killian
George Washington was President of the United States when Elijah was born in Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia on September 17 1793. His parents were Solomon Newman and Jane James Newman. We have very little information about his parents. The following information is f...
Elisha Averett
Submitted By: Jan & Jessie Wallace Spendlove | Pioneer: Elisha Averett | Spouse: Dorcas Willis
ELISHA AVERETT WAS A FAITHFUL SERVANT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM HE WOULD SERVE WITH LOVE AND DEVOTION THROUGHOUT HIS SOJOURN IN THIS MORTAL LIFE. BORN A MUSICIAN, HE SHARED HIS TALENT WITH LOVE AND ZEST, PLAYING HIS "FIFE" FOR ALL OCCASIONS. (FIFE IS S...
Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson - Handcart Pioneer of 1856
Submitted By: Kirk J Oborn | Pioneer: Elizabeth Horrocks Jackson | Spouse: Aaron Jackson
Elizabeth Horrocks was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England on August 5, 1826. She is the daughter of Edward Horrocks and Alice Houghton. Elizabeth was the oldest of 11 children, and when she was about 7 years old she worked in a silk factory enabling her to assist...
ELIZABETH JANE GREEN Biography by Cora Beck Adamson and amended by Rodney Orr Chapman
Submitted By: Rodney Orr Chapman | Pioneer: Elizabeth Jane Green | Spouse: James Orr
ELIZABETH JANE GREEN 19 Feb 1840 - 2 Apr, 1890 Elizabeth Jane Green was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, South Wales, 19 Feb 1840, the daughter of Richard William Green and Anna Phillips. Elizabeth was the second child in a family of nine children, she bein...
Ephraim Twitchell & Phoebe Melissa Knight
Submitted By: Clark L. Puffer | Pioneer: Ephraim Twitchell | Spouse: Phebe Melissa Knight
Introduction: In order to adequately cover the history of Ephraim Twitchell and Phoebe Melissa Knight I thought it important to join them together as they were so greatly bonded together in life. I give recognition to Mary Almond a great granddaughter of Ephraim an...
Erastus Bingham the Patriarch
Submitted By: Douglas A Heiner | Pioneer: Erastus Bingham | Spouse: Lucinda Gates
Erastus Bingham, born in Concord, Essex, Vermont, 12 March 1798, son of Elisha Warner and Sarah (Perry) Bingham; died in Ogden, Weber, Utah, 2 May 1882; buried in Ogden. (1) He married in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, 20 March 1818, Lucinda Gates, bo...
Experiences of John R Young
Submitted By: George Lamar Brinkerhoff | Pioneer: John Ray Young | Spouse: Lydia Knight
My great great grandfather John Ray Young was born 100 years before me. I was born April 13 1937, and he was born April 30 1837 in Kirtland Ohio. His parents were Lorenzo Dow, and Persis Goodall Young. Lorenzo is the youngest brother of Brigham Young, and the son o...
Francis Armstrong
Submitted By: SUP Library File | Pioneer: Francis Armstrong | Spouse: Isabel Siddoway
The Armstrongs were a small border clan, who in the 1800's lived primarily in Northumberland on the English side of the Scottish border. They had lived in this area for generation after generation, but it was a hard life, and Canada looked promising. In 1855, Franc...
Friend of the Prophet
Submitted By: Homer M. LeBaron | Pioneer: Benjamin Franklin Johnson | Spouse: Melissa Bloomfield LeBaron
Joseph Smith’s death was a difficult tragedy for the Saints in Nauvoo. Most were confident that Joseph would again, as so many times in the past, escape his enemies and return to the Church and preside over the great events of the last days, especially finishing and de...
George Alley
Submitted By: J. Alley | Pioneer: George Alley | Spouse: Mary Symonds
BIRTHDATE: 13 Dec 1792, Lynn, Massachusetts DEATH: 18 Nov 1859, Salt Lake City, Utah PARENTS: Hannah Batchellor and Joseph Alley SPOUSE: Mary Symonds MARRIED: 15 Sep 1822 PIONEER: 1848 Brigham Young Company Children: George Hubbard 1823 M...
George Atkin
Submitted By: G. Buckmiller | Pioneer: George Atkin | Spouse: Sarah Matilda Utley
George Atkin was born March 12, 1836 at Louth, Lincolnshire, England. He was the fifth child of Thomas and Mary Morley Atkin. George was the youngest of three children who lived to maturity. Emily and Thomas Junior were the older siblings. George's parents were wel...
George Freestone, Frontiersman
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: George Freestone | Spouse: Alice Carlisle
GEORGE FREESTONE, FRONTIERSMAN By Angus H. Belliston My mother had a special love for her Freestone grandparents and longed to see her grandfather, George, who lived so far away in the Uintah Basin of Utah. In her journal she mentioned his nam...
George H. Alley
Submitted By: J. Alley | Pioneer: George Hubbard Alley | Spouse:
Birth: 14 June, 1823, Lynn, Massachusetts Death: 6 April, 1910, Salt Lake City, Utah Parents George Alley & Mary Symonds Arrived in Utah 20 September, 1848, Brigham Young's Company “I, George Hubbard Alley, do hereby swear, before the great an...
George Niles Haskell
Submitted By: Ivan Y. Haskell | Pioneer: George Haskell | Spouse: Sally
GEORGE NILES HASKELL And FAMILY George Niles Haskell was born in the small town of Danbury, County of Grafton, State of New Hampshire, and was the first son of Ebeneezer Haskell and Mary Pittsley Haskell. He was born 16 October 1797. Mary and Ebeneezer were married...
George Washington Hill: Stalwart convert and a missionary to the Indian people
Submitted By: Kent B. Beus | Pioneer: George Washington Hill | Spouse:
My great-great grandfather, George Washington Hill, at the early age of 23, stood the test to live by principles he knew to be true. He remained true and faithful ever thereafter. In 1845 in Dallas County, Missouri, after having purchased some land and built ...
Hans Anderson
Submitted By: Thais Carlson DeGrey | Pioneer: Hans Anderson | Spouse: Hanna Jonsson
Hans Anderson was born March 3, 1806 in West Odarslov, Odarslov, Malmohus, Sweden to parents Anders Carlsson and Hanna Pehrsson. Hans worked as a laborer during his entire life. At age 31, he married Hanna Jonsson. She was born May 17, 1808, the daughter of Jons Jeppson...
Hardships Have Their Reward
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Celestia Curtis Durfee | Spouse: Jabez Durfee
Born 21 April 1832 at Ruthland, Tiago County, Pennsylvania. A daughter of Enos and Ruth Franklin Curtis. This was two years after the Church was organized. Her father was away on a mission at the time of her birth. Her father was a Patriarch in the Church. He had p...
Harrison and Mary Freestone Maughan
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: Harrison Davenport Maughan | Spouse: Mary Freestone
HARRISON DAVENPORT MAUGHAN AND MARY ELIZABETH FREESTONE By Angus H. Belliston My grandfather, Harrison Davenport Maughan was born in Wellsville, Cache County, Utah on 17 September 1861, the fourth of thirteen children in the family. Brothers a...
Henry Ashcroft
Submitted By: Gaylen L. & Elaine T. Ashcroft | Pioneer: Henry Ashcroft | Spouse: Mary Glover
Henry Ashcroft was born 30 November 1833 at Upholland, Lancashire, England. His father, George Lee, and his mother, Margaret Ashcroft, were never married, so Henry retained his mother's surname. The following is found in the L.D.S. Branch Records of Lancashire,...
History of Oswald Barlow, St. George Pioneer
Submitted By: Tim Booth | Pioneer: Oswald Barlow | Spouse: Catharine Nightingale
Oswald Barlow was born July 20, 1829 in Prestwich, Lancashire, England. He was the oldest of eight children born to James Barlow (b. 3 Nov 1802, d. 22 Jul 1849) and Ann Crompton Barlow (b. 28 Aug 1804, d. 18 Oct 1887) who were married on February 13, 1831 in St. Mary Ec...
History of Clarinda Huetta Johnson Winget, Utah Pioneer of 1847
Submitted By: Rachael Lynn Johnson | Pioneer: Clarinda Huetta Winget | Spouse: Zenos Winget
History of Clarinda Huetta Johnson Winget, Utah Pioneer of 1847 (Mother of Cyrus Alphonzo Winget) Snow fell heavily and cold at Winter Quarters (now Florence, Nebraska) on the little Mormon Camp. It had come this far, since being driven from Nauvoo, Illinois, by t...
History of James and Ann Crompton Barlow. Edward Martin Company Handcart Pioneers
Submitted By: Tim Booth | Pioneer: Ann Crompton Barlow | Spouse: James Barlow
Ann Crompton Barlow was born on August 27, 1805 in Prestwich, Lancastershire, England, daughter of Thomas Crompton and Martha Mottershead. She was their ninth child and the twin of Martha Crompton. All of her brothers ands sisters were born and christened in Prestwitch,...
History of Lewis Barney: From His Birth to Arrival in Salt Lake City
Submitted By: David Lynn Rogers | Pioneer: Lewis Barney | Spouse: Elizabeth Turner
Excerpts From The History of Lewis Barney: From His Birth to Arrival in Salt Lake City. * Lewis Barney was the son of Charles Barney and Mercy Yeoman. Charles was the son of Luther Barney and Niber Abigail Winship. On the maternal side, his grandfather was St...
History of Robert Wiley and Sarah Darling Wiley
Submitted By: Ruth Ann Robbins | Pioneer: Robert Wiley | Spouse: Sarah Darling
History of Robert and Sarah Darling Wiley Sarah Darling was born in Liverpool, Lancaster, England. She was born to John Darling and Elizabeth Ann Youd Darling on 24 November 1814. She married Robert Wiley on 28 August 1832. They were married in the St. Pete...
HYRUM WOOLSEY TO UTAH - 1848 -
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Hyrum Woolsey | Spouse: Rachel Mitchell
Hyrum Woolsey (abt 1806-aft 1860) born at Fishing Creek, Lincoln (Pulaski) county, Kentucky, and died after 1860 in Utah. His has been a most difficult family to trace, but it is coming together, reluctantly. He married about 1825 in Jessamine County, Kentucky to Rach...
Inspirational Story
Submitted By: Roger Slagowski | Pioneer: James Mellor | Spouse: Mary Ann Payne
At the age of eight, with his entire family (father, James Mellor Sr.(37), mother, Mary Ann Payne (36); sister, Louise (15); sister, Elizabeth (14); sister, Mary Ann (10); brother, William C. (5); and the twins, Emma N. And Clara A. (3)) sailed from Liverpool, England ...
Isaac Allred
Submitted By: Mrs. Inez Allred | Pioneer: Isaac Allred | Spouse: Mary Calvert
Isaac Allred, son of William Allred & Elizabeth Thresher was born Jan. 27, 1788 in Pendleton, So. Carolina. He was one of eight children. At the age of 22 he married Mary Calvert. They settled in the community of Farmington in Marshall Co., Tenn. They lived there fo...
Israel Dodge Allphin
Submitted By: Jessie Wallace Spendlove | Pioneer: Israel Dodge Allphin | Spouse: Burnetta Collins
ISRAEL DODGE ALLPHIN ISRAEL DODGE ALLPHIN, SON OF SHELTON ALLPHIN AND MARTHA TAYLOR, WAS B: 8 SEP 1814 IN VIENA, DAVIES, KENTUCKY; D. 25 APR 1903, ELBA, CASSIA, IDAHO; BUR. ELBA, CASSIA, IDAHO. ISRAEL WAS BAPTIZED A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH 25 FEB 1840 BY ...
Jacob C. Woolsey & son Joseph H. Woolsey - to Utah 1848
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Jacob C. Woolsey | Spouse: Catherine
I have been working with this unique Woolsey family for over ten years, as I researched them in Great Yarmouth, England records, to Rotterdam, Holland, and then to New Amsterdam (New York), Long Island (1647) and then to places north and south throughout America. It is...
James Anderson Allred
Submitted By: Kathleen Pace Boyd | Pioneer: James Anderson Allred | Spouse: Elizabeth Parkis
NOTE: THIS STORY WAS COPIED FROM FILES IN THE SUP LIBRARY. Upon the death of James' father, William Allred, James assumed the responsibility of supporting his mother and brothers and sisters. On January 30, 1844 James married Elizabeth Parkis. Their first...
James Armitstead
Submitted By: David L. Walton | Pioneer: James Armitstead | Spouse: Mary Coupe
James Armitstead, son of Thomas Armitstead and Margaret Rawlinson, was born 22 June 1821 at Bentham, Yorkshire, England. Married Mary Coupe (born 24 December 1821, Haslingden Grane, Civil Parish of Whalley, Lancashire, England; died 10 February 1901, Pleasant G...
James Henry Rollins, Faithful Pioneer
Submitted By: Roland L. Lee | Pioneer: James Henry Rollins | Spouse: Evaline Walker
by: Roland L. Lee, third great grandson My third great grandfather, James Henry Rollins, was one of those early saints who seemed to always be in the thick of things during the restoration period of the Gospel. Henry was born in Lima New York on May 27, 181...
James Thomas and Louisa Belliston
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: James Thomas Belliston | Spouse: Louisa Miller
James Thomas Belliston was born on 18 February 1819 at St. Giles in the Fields,Westminster, London, Middlesex Shire, England. He was the oldest of twelve children of John Belliston and Elizabeth Carpenter. Only six of these children lived to maturity. The family were me...
Jens Olsen: An Honorable Pioneer
Submitted By: Louis M. Pickett | Pioneer: James (Jen) Peter Olsen | Spouse: Ane Kirsten Nielsen
James Peter Olsen was born in Viemose, Kalvehave, Praesto, Denmark, on the 14th of May 1841. His father was Rasmus Olsen and his mother was Ingeborg Hansen or Sorensen. James was called Jens for short. The family owned and lived on a beautiful estate, which was on hig...
Jens Peter Ahlstrom
Submitted By: Unknown | Pioneer: Jens Peter Ahlstrom | Spouse: Inger Marie Larsen
Jens Peter Ahlstrom: Born: 15 April, 1835, Malmo, Sweden. Died: 12 January, 1903, Manti, Utah. Parents: Ole Neilson Ahlstrom and Ingebarg Bunderson. Arrived in Salt Lake Valley about 1865. JENS Peter Ahlstrom’s first spouse was Inger Mar...
John Streator Gleason, Miner
Submitted By: S. John Bennett | Pioneer: John Streator Gleason | Spouse: Desdemona Chase
Mining In Rush Valley One of the premier days of my life is the day I took my Mother (Marie Gleason Bennett) to Ophir City in the County of Tooele. It was here where family tradition has it that John S. Gleason sold his "Million Dollar" gold mine, the Mou...
John Adamson
Submitted By: L. Hall | Pioneer: John Adamson | Spouse: Helen Cameron
NAME: John Adamson BIRTH: 22 Jan 1812, Boreland, Fife, Scotland DEATH: 10 Jun 1902, Wellsville, Utah PARENTS: ANDREW ADAMSON & MARGARET CUNNINGHAM MARRIAGE: 31 Dec 1836 SPOUSE: HELEN CAMERON BIRTH: 6 May 1809, Pathhead,Fife, Scotland DEATH: 3...
John Alleman
Submitted By: Unknown | Pioneer: John Alleman | Spouse: Christean Stentz
John Alleman: Born: 28 June 1808, Middletown, Swatara Twp, Dauphin, Penn. Died: 28 Oct 1883, Springville, Utah, Utah Entered Valley: 3 Oct 1852, 14th Wagon Co., Capt John B. Walker Parents: John Christopher and Catherine Heppick Alleman Mar...
John Carling
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: John Carling | Spouse: Emeline Keaton
John Carling & Emeline Keaton John Carling, b 11 Sept., 1800, Kingston, Ulster, NY, md Emeline Keaton 1 Sept., 1830, d 2 Apr., 1855, Fillmore, Millard, UT. The year 1800 began the nineteenth century with some notable events. The Italian physicist...
John Harrison Maughan and Sarah Mariah Davenport
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: John Harrison Maughan | Spouse: Sarah Mariah Davenport
JOHN HARRISON MAUGHAN AND SARAH MARIAH DAVENPORT By Angus H. Belliston John was the father of my grandfather, Harrison Maughan. He was the eldest son of the first Maughan pioneers, Peter Maughan and Ruth Harrison. John’s birth in Alston, Cumberla...
John Hiott: An Obscure Pioneer
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: John Hiott | Spouse: Kathaline Harriet Jones
John Hiott came to Utah without family members and had no children after arriving. Although only fragments of his life appear in records, he lived during an interesting, yet difficult time. He survived the handcart disaster of 1856, settled in what is now American Fo...
John Pickett - A Fully Converted Pioneer
Submitted By: Louis M. Pickett | Pioneer: John Pickett | Spouse: Rosetta Stringer
John Pickett 4 February 1826 - 27 September 1898 John Pickett was born at Much Hadham , Hertfordshire, England on February 4, 1826. He was the son of John Pickett and Sarah (Susan) Sapsed. Records show that John’s mother, Susan, died when he was seven ye...
John Streator Gleason and the Martyrdom of the Prophet
Submitted By: Ann W. Engar | Pioneer: John Streator Gleason | Spouse: Desdemona Chase
John Streator Gleason (1819-1904) was a scout for the 1847 first group into Salt Lake Valley. He joined the Church in 1839 and moved with his wife Desdemona Chase and her parents to Nauvoo in 1842, where he became a trusted friend of the prophet Joseph Smith.
Joseph Allen
Submitted By: unknown | Pioneer: Joseph Allen | Spouse: Lucinda Drucilla Lasley
Joseph Allen Joseph was born 10 April, 1843, in Parma, Cayahoga, Ohio. He died 25 July, 1921, in Rockland, Power, Idaho, where he was buried 27 July, 1921. He was the first son born to Jude Allen, son of Andrew Allen and Eunice Miner, and Mary Ann Nichola...
Joseph Benson Roper: A Talented, Civic Minded Pioneer
Submitted By: Louis M. Pickett | Pioneer: Joseph Benson Roper | Spouse: Hannah Elizabeth Molen
Joseph Benson Roper Joseph Benson Roper was the second son of William and Susanna Smith Roper and was born on November 2, 1834 in Toynton, Lincolnshire, England. One Sunday night when Joseph was seven years old his father, William, offered to stay home with th...
Joseph Howard Faithful Pioneer
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Joseph Howard | Spouse: Ann Shelton
Joseph Howard, son of William Howard and Tamar Mills was born November 12, 1819 at King's Norton, near Birmingham, England. His father was an England Farmer and his children were brought up and taught in the knowledge of farm. Each was given work...
Joseph Johnson Smith
Submitted By: Jay M. Smith | Pioneer: Joseph Johnson Smith | Spouse: Mary
Joseph Johnson Smith Joseph showed great courage while in Nauvoo, just as the Prophet Joseph Smith did. He and his wife, Mary, came from England in 1843 with two small children, Caroline 2 years and Mercy 8 months. It took them two months on the ship Montre...
Joseph Stewart Allen
Submitted By: LaRae McNamarra | Pioneer: Joseph Stewart Allen | Spouse: Lucy Diantha Morley
Joseph Steward Allen 1997 Sesquicentenial Project Sons of Utah Pioneers Name: Joseph Stewart Allen Born: 25 June, 1806, Whitestown, Oneida, New York Died 25 April, 1889, Huntington, Emery, Utah Entered Utah 30 September, 185...
JOSEPH WOOLSEY AND ABIGAIL SCHAEFFER FAMILY MEMBERS TO UTAH
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Abigail Schaeffer Woolsey | Spouse: Joseph Woolsey
JOSEPH WOOLSEY (abt 1771-1839), born in Ulster County, New York and died in Vandalia, Fayette County, Illinois, is the son of the Revolutionary War Veteran Richard Woolsey (1747-1825) and Nancy Plumstead, of Westchester, Ulster and Orange Counties, New York, to Washi...
Jude Allen
Submitted By: Unknown | Pioneer: Jude Allen | Spouse: Mary Ann Nicholas
Jude Allen, Historical Sketch for 1997 Sesquicentennial Project, Sons of Utah Pioneers Birth: October 12, 1811 at Willsborough, Essex County, New York. Death: February 13, 1990, Calls Fort, Box Elder County, Utah. Arrival in Utah: Sep...
Judge Joseph Holbrook, Faithful Saint
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Joseph Holbrook | Spouse: Nancy Lampson
THE INTRODUCTION TO HIS JOURNAL I, Joseph Holbrook, being desirous of leaving on record a few of the incidents of my past life and also a genealogy of my forefathers that my children may be somewhat acquainted of the origin of their forefathers. And I have wri...
JULIA ANN CHAPMAN LEE
Submitted By: Rodney Orr Chapman | Pioneer: Julia Ann Chapman Lee | Spouse: Isaac Lee
JULIA ANN CHAPMAN LEE 20 August 1825 - 10 July 1852 Julia Ann Chapman was born 20 August 1825, in Eugene, Vermilion County, Indiana to Isaac Benjamin Chapman and Solona Brown Chapman. She married Isaac Lee and had a daughter Mariette, born 1846, Elizabeth ...
Levi Roberts - Converted by Wilford Woodruff
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Levi Roberts | Spouse: Harriett Ann Efford (Hefford)
Levi Roberts, b 26 February, 1815, in Deerhurst, Glouchester, England, md Harriett Ann Efford abt 18 Aug, 1835, d January 22, 1894 in Kaysville, UT On the day that Napoleon and 1200 men left Elba to start the 100 day re-conquest of France, Levi Roberts was bor...
Life of James Kippen
Submitted By: Robert Warner Poll | Pioneer: James Kippen | Spouse: Isabella Watson
"Life of James Kippen" Written by Granddaughter Catherine H. White No one can bequeath to posterity a richer heritage than the memory of a noble and well directed life, devoted with unselfish affection to the up building of the human race. Such a...
Life of John Pannell Wright
Submitted By: John F. Wright | Pioneer: John Pannell Wright | Spouse: Mary Hill Fish
John Pannell Wright was born 18 January 1805 in St. Swithins parish, Lincoln Lincolnshire, England to George Wright and Mary Pannell. He was a man of faith who loved the Bible, but was not affiliated with any church. He married Mary Hill Fish at St. Peters Eastgate in L...
Life Sketch of Orville Sutherland Cox
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Orville Sutherland Cox | Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Allen
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ORVILLE SUTHERLAND COX Pioneer of 1847 Written partly from a sketch written by Adelia B. Cox Sidwell for the "Daughters of the Pioneers," Manti, Utah, 1913 Orville S. Cox, was born in Plymouth, N.Y. November 25,...
Maggie Anna Ferrell Orr, a life history
Submitted By: Rodney Orr Chapman | Pioneer: Maggie Anna Ferrell Orr | Spouse: James Copeland Orr
Maggie Anna Ferrell was born September 20, 1847, in a small house on the outskirts of Sugar Grove, Butler County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of John Bell and Frances Jemima Sweatt Ferrell, both born in Lebanon, Tennessee, and both loyal Southerners. Maggie’s fathe...
Man of Steel, True to the Faith
Submitted By: Larry La Mar Adams | Pioneer: William Decatur Kartchner Adams | Spouse: Margaret Jane Casteel
W. D. KARTCHNER, MAN OF STEEL, TRUE TO THE FAITH William Decatur Kartchner was a man of faith, obedience, sacrifice, and Christian courage from his youth as a meek and humble leader among his family, peers and seniors. He was born 4 May 1820 in Montgomery County...
Margaretta Unwin Clark & Anson Call
Submitted By: Ariel Knowles | Pioneer: Margaretta Unwin Clark | Spouse:
In 1847, Margaretta Unwin Clark, a nineteen-year-old young woman employed in a Nottingham England stocking factory, was hurrying home after work when she came to a scene on a street corner where a young man, probably a little older than herself, was street preaching to ...
Marie-Michelle's Enduring Hard Work
Submitted By: Matthew Wayne Vinton | Pioneer: Marie-Michelle Pierre-Louis Mileon | Spouse:
The Story of Marie-Michelle When it comes to pioneers, I cannot think of a better example than my mother-in-law, Marie-Michelle Pierre-Louis Mileon. She came from a small town in Haiti and made it all the way to owning a business in the United States. All ...
Mary Ann Howard Tolman
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Mary Ann Howard | Spouse: Juston Adonirum Tolman
In the year of 1861, the eldest Howard boys, Thomas and William, came from England to Salt Lake City to work and earn money to bring their parents and the rest of the family. Two years later, 1863, they sent for their Father, mother, (Joseph and Ann Shelton Howard) wit...
MEMORIES OF JOHN NOCK HINTON
Submitted By: David Hinton | Pioneer: John Knock Hinton | Spouse: Emma Spendlove
MEMORIES OF JOHN NOCK HINTON And EMMA SPENDLOVE John Nock Hinton was born in Birmingham, Warrickshire, England, October 18, 1829. Atkins Hinton and Agnes Maurice had seven children, three boys, John, Atkins, Thomas, and four girls, Agnes, Hanna, Eliza...
Milton Ezra and Ida Hansen Steed
Submitted By: Robert Steed | Pioneer: Milton Ezra Steed | Spouse: Ida Hansen
MILTON EZRA AND IDA HANSEN STEED Milton Ezra Steed was my father. He was born in Farmington, Davis County, Utah January 23, 1899. Very little is known about his younger years. He never talked about himself. We do know that he worked very hard on the Steed f...
MOMMA - A SHORT STORY OF ABIGAIL SCHAEFFER WOOLSEY
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Abigail Schaeffer | Spouse: Joseph Woolsey
"MOMMA" The Life of ABIGAIL SCHAEFFER WOOLSEY As Told by Sarah Woolsey Hickerson (her daughter) by Wilford W. Whitaker August 2002 The End of the Road Wet and cold, the little group huddled closer together, seeki...
Moses Thomson, Jr.
Submitted By: Jolene Spendlove Allphin | Pioneer: Moses Thomson Jr. | Spouse:
MOSES THOMSON, JR. Born: 5 Feb. 1834 Kincardine, Perth, Scotland Died: November 1856 on the Sweetwater River near Devil’s Gate (Possibly at Martin’s Cove) MARTIN HANDCART COMPANY - Age 22 Moses was the 5th of 8 children of Moses and ...
Nathaniel Ashby
Submitted By: Karma Reid Lewis | Pioneer: Nathaniel Ashby | Spouse: Susan Hammond
Nathaniel's parents were Benjamin and Mary Young Ashby. The Ashbys were seaman and ship wrights until after the War of 1812. Nathaniel however, was apprenticed to a shoemaker at an early age to learn the shoemaking trade. He became expert in the making of fine shoe...
Nearly Pioneers: Jens and Dorthea Jensen of Pleasant Grove, Utah
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Jens Christen Jensen | Spouse: Dorthea Marie Christine Sorensen
Most pioneer stories involve building religious faith through hardships and challenges, but some early migrants to Utah don’t fit this mold. Some were disappointed by life in Utah and returned to their place of origin. Others moved on seeking greener pastures elsewher...
Neil Anderson
Submitted By: SUP Library File | Pioneer: Neil Anderson | Spouse: Hannah Pehrson
HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Neil Anderson joined the church, 27 August 1859 in Sweden and was ordained a Priest there. He came to America in 1861 and settled in West Jordan, Utah. He was with a group of church members from West Jordan, meeting some pioneers coming into the val...
Nelson Higgins - Through it All
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Nelson Higgins | Spouse: Sarah Blackman
Nelson Higgins was born in Otsego County, NY on 1 Sep, 1806 (one month after the end of the Holy Roman Empire) to Daniel Higgins and Mary Dagget. The name Nelson means courageous, a champion, the chief. It didn’t take long for Nelson to live up to that name, and he di...
NIELS ANDERSEN aka NELS JEPPSEN
Submitted By: J. Allen | Pioneer: Niels Anderson | Spouse: Dorthea Magdalena Nichols
NIELS ANDERSEN AKA NELS JEPPSEN Niels Andersen was-born in Monge, Vejby, Frederiksborg, Denmark, on Sunday 14 December, 1834. He was the son of Anders Jeppsen (son of Jeppe Larsen and Bodil Andersen), and Inger Larsen (daughter of Lars Nielsen and Maren La...
Peter Maughan
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: Peter Maughan | Spouse: Ruth Harrison
Because of his prominence, much has been written about Peter Maughan, the great pioneer colonizer of Cache Valley. This account will serve only as a vignette, summarizing hislife. John was the progenitor of the Mormon Maughans, and was my own great great-grandfather o...
Peter Shirts, Amazing Pioneer
Submitted By: Donald Lee Beatty | Pioneer: Peter Shirts | Spouse: Margaret Cameron
Born: Aug. 23, 1808 Death: probably 1882 Columbiana County, Ohio Fruitland (San Juan County) New Mexico, USA Son of Michael Schertz and Elizabeth VanderBeek Marr...
Pioneer Historian and Traveler
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Andrew Jenson | Spouse: Kirsten Marie Pedersen
Of the Danes who early joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Andrew Jenson left the largest historical footprint. During a career that spanned 65 years he authored more than two-dozen books, edited four historical journals, and compiled thousands of pa...
Richard Alldridge
Submitted By: Catherine T. Jensen | Pioneer: Richard Alldridge | Spouse:
Richard Alldridge: Richard Alldridge was born in Floore, Northampton, England, 15 May 1815, son of Robert Alldridge and Elizabeth Haycock Alldridge. He married Ann Gordan Blunt, daughter of John Blunt and Jane Gordan Blunt, September 1836, Northampton, Northamp...
Richard Carlisle and Jane Field
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: Richard Carlisle | Spouse: Jane or Jennie Field
RICHARD CARLISLE AND JANE FIELD By Angus H. Belliston Richard Carlisle and Jane (or Jenney) Field were both born in England – Richard on 30 April 1798 in Riseholme, Lincolnshire and Jane on 18 November 1795 in Willingham, Lincolnshire. The cou...
Sanford Porter - A Visionary Man
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Sanford Porter Sr. | Spouse: Nancy Arrita Warriner
Sanford Porter, b 7 Mar 1790, Brimfield, Hampden, MA, m Nancy Arreta Warriner 1 Jan 1812, d 7 Feb 1873 Sanford Porter was born 7 Mar, 1790 in Brimfield, Hampton, MA to Nathan Porter and Susannah West. When he was old enough to leave home, he traveled to Willi...
SAVAGE INDIAN PEACEKEEPER
Submitted By: Larry La Mar Adams | Pioneer: David Leonard Savage | Spouse: Theodocia Finch
SAVAGE INDIAN PEACEKEEPER David Leonard Savage was born July 25, 1810 in Leeds, Canada, converted to the Church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) there, eventually went to Nauvoo where he worked on the temple, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley wit...
Sketch of Life of fHeamon Alison Hill
Submitted By: George Curtis | Pioneer: Heamon Alison Hill | Spouse: Lurancy Chase
Sketch of life of Heamon Alison Hill Compiled by Jennie B. Hill Heamon Alison Hill was born at Petersboro, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire on 24 December 1836. He was the son of Leonard Hill and Sally Forbush. On his father’s side he was a grandson of...
Stalked by Cholera in 1866: The Anders Peter Warnick Family Saga
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Anders Peter Warnick | Spouse: Anna Helena Anderson
From 1863 to 1875 cholera swept through Europe. The Austro-Prussian War in 1866 accelerated its spread. That fateful year 250 thousand people died from the lethal disease in Prussia and Austria, 90 thousand perished in Russia, and 113 thousand succumbed the next year i...
Stephen Webb Alley
Submitted By: J. Alley | Pioneer: Stephen Webb Alley | Spouse: Emma Turner
Stephen Webb Alley Born: 12 December, 1832, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Died: 13 June, 1921, Salt Lake City, Utah Parents: George Alley and Mary Symonds Arrived in Utah: 1 June, 1848, Brigham Young's Company Spouse: Emma Tu...
Still Giving Her Life
Submitted By: Elizabeth C. Zaleski | Pioneer: Margaret Church Callister | Spouse: Joseph Lathel Callister
"After you've raised 16 children on a farm in Delta, sent them all to college, participated in church and community affairs, what do you do for an encore? "You work in a hospital, go on a mission, and become Utah's Mother of the Year." (Max...
Stillman Pond -- 1847 Utah Pioneer and his Family
Submitted By: Ricky Lynn Pond | Pioneer: Stillman Pond | Spouse: Almyra Whittemore
STILLMAN POND Utah Pioneer Stillman Pond was born 26 October 1803 at Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Stillman was a son of Preston Pond and Hannah Rice. Stillman lived with his parents until he was twen...
Survival Tips From a Pioneer Born 100 Years Too Late
Submitted By: John K. Francis | Pioneer: John Kimball Francis Jr. | Spouse:
Introduction I grew up in a hard scrabble farm in Idaho. I sometimes tell folks that the Depression lasted in that part of the country until 1963 (when I left home) . We really did pioneer and hunter-gathering things. My mother used to reuse gift wrapping paper and...
The Adventures of Nathan W. Adams
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Nathan William Adams | Spouse: Mary Malinda Plunkett
Much fanfare accompanied the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. Two weeks later Major John Wesley Powell and nine companions in four row boats left Green River, Wyoming, with almost no fanfare, to explore the Green an...
The Big Plow
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Orville Sutherland Cox | Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Allen
When Fairview was just being settled, a ditch was needed to bring water to the land. Several stories about the Big Plow built by Orville have been told, but this one by Pappas Brady of Fairview, an eye witness is the best: “When the ditch was first laid out th...
The History of Tilda Christena Christenson
Submitted By: Philip Asay Wasden | Pioneer: Tilda Christena Christenson | Spouse: James Brooks Wasden
History of Tilda Christena Christensen Wasden Transcribed by Philip A. Wasden. Phil is the grandson of James Brooks Wasden and Tilda Christena Christensen. The following are some of the incidents that Tilda related in her own words of her early life:...
The Last Match
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Orville Sutherland Cox | Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Allen
An incident that illustrated the pioneer life of 1845-6 is told in the story of the "Last Match." In the winter of 1845-6 Orville S. Cox and two Whiting boys, cousins of Elvira, went from Pisgah with ox teams and wagons down into Missouri with a load of chair...
The Life and Struggles of Jesse Molen
Submitted By: Louis M. Pickett | Pioneer: Jesse Molen | Spouse: Laurany Huffaker
HISTORY OF JESSE AND LAURANY HUFFAKER MOLEN Jesse Molen was born the son of Aquilla and Docia White Molen on July 25, 1805. The tax list for Henry County, Virginia for 1804 contains the name of Aquilla, his father, so it is likely that Jesse was born...
The Life of Edward William Davis
Submitted By: Joan Wallace Weston | Pioneer: Edward William Davis | Spouse: Sarah Drabble
Edward William Davis was born February 1, 1794 and Sarah Drabble was born January 16, 1802 in Tower Hamlets, London, Middlesex, England. "Nothing is known of his childhood or young manhood, except that he had a fine profession as a silk and cloth weaver. ...
The Life of George Benjamin Wallace
Submitted By: Joan Wallace Weston | Pioneer: Geroge Benjamin Wallace | Spouse: Martha Davis
Excerpts from journals and books and other sources about his life There are many journals, articles and Daughters of the Utah Pioneer biographical sketches available for George Benjamin Wallace. It seems appropriate to cull the information from many of these source...
THE LIFE STORY OF ALBERT CLEMENTS AND ADA WINCHELL
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: Albert Clements | Spouse: Aidah (ada) Winchell
There were no clouds visible in the sky nor anything in all the world of even a grayish appearance so far as could be seen by Albert Clements. He stood or moved about as if standing or walking in an arc so light and buoyant was the beating of his strong healthy young h...
The Life Story of James Maurice Hinton
Submitted By: David T. Hinton | Pioneer: James Maurice Hinton | Spouse: Cleesa Cox
THE LIFE STORY OF James Maurice Hinton I was born in Virgin, Washington Co., Utah, on October 24, 1890 to John Maurice Hinton and Nancy Alice Nutter Stanworth. I was the youngest boy in a family of four boys. John Samuel was my eldest brother. Geor...
The Story of Melvin "P" Anderson, A Modern Pioneer
Submitted By: Dona H. Anderson | Pioneer: Melvin P Anderson | Spouse: Dona Hansen
THE STORY OF MELVIN "P" ANDERSON A Modern Pioneer Melvin Anderson was born and raised in Lehi, Utah. He has spent his whole life-time as a citizen of this community. His father, Evans L. Anderson was a true farmer, acquiring good land to raise crops ...
Thomas Alston
Submitted By: J. Killpac k | Pioneer: Thomas Alston | Spouse: Mary Ellen Holt
Thomas Alston & Mary Ellen Holt The life story of Thomas Alston and Mary Ellen Holt Alston, their projenitors and their family after them is of interest and should be preserved for the genera¬tions that follow. It is desired to bring together the accumulation t...
Thomas and Sophia Belliston
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: Thomas Belliston | Spouse: Sophia Bardsley
On 1 December 1845, Thomas Belliston was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire,England. His father, James Thomas, and mother, Louisa Miller, were both age twenty-six andliving with their little family in Birmingham. Thomas was the fourth child, but a little brother and siste...
Thomas Ashton
Submitted By: Richard W. Moyle | Pioneer: Thomas Ashton | Spouse: Mary Howard
Thomas' Father Joseph Ashton by trade was a silversmith. Thomas only had one sister Eleanor, that was nine years his senior. At the age of fifteen he apprenticed for six years to the trade of wheelwright, carriage builder, and ship carpenter. Upon completi...
Thomas Atkin
Submitted By: G. Buckmiller | Pioneer: Thomas Atkin | Spouse: Mary Morley
Thomas Atkin was born February 10, 1804 at Legsby, Lincolnshire, England. He was the eighth child of ten born to John and Mary Ashley Atkin. All ten children lived to maturity and married. The family lived on a farm in this farming community. Thomas received only a limi...
Thomas Atkin, Jr.
Submitted By: G. Buckmiller | Pioneer: Thomas Atkin Jr. | Spouse: Mary Ann Maughan
Thomas Atkin, Jr. was born July 7 1833 at Louth, Lincolnshire, England, and was the son of Thomas and Mary Morley Atkin. His parents were well situated as his father was a carpenter and joiner and owned property. His parents had one home in which the family lived and th...
Thomas Freestone and Ann Fall -- Perseverance!
Submitted By: Angus H. Belliston | Pioneer: Thomas Freestone | Spouse: Ann Fall
THOMAS FREESTONE AND ANN FALL By Angus H. Belliston Thomas Freestone, the father of my great grandfather, George Freestone, was born in Fixton, Suffolk, England on 19 May 1795. This was a comparatively prosperous time in England, and Thomas c...
Thomas Hill Allsop
Submitted By: Valora Allsop Le Fevre | Pioneer: Thomas Hill Allsop | Spouse:
Thomas Hill Allsop was born in 1835 at Cheddleton, England. He joined the LDS Church Jan, 21, 1856 and came to Utah in 1857 with his wife, step-daughter and sister-in-law. They had their own outfit of two ox teams and all their supplies. When they arrived here they wer...
Thomas John & Margaret Thomas
Submitted By: ElRoy Taylor | Pioneer: Thomas John | Spouse: Margaret Thomas
Thomas John & Margaret Thomas Thomas John, b 29 Jan 1820, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, m Margaret Thomas, Jul 14, 1840, d Jan 20, 1890, Portage, Boxelder, Utah. In the 19th century, shoemaking was a respected and much needed trade, but it was hard to m...
Thomas Kirk Armstrong
Submitted By: Mildred Porter Hunter | Pioneer: Thomas Kirk Armstrong | Spouse: Margaret Stevenson Hutchison
Thomas Kirk Armstrong was born 7 September 1847 at Plenmellor (or spelled Plainmellor), Northumberland, England the 6th child and son of William Armstrong and Mary Kirk. He was christened Thomas Armstrong, in the Presbyterian Church. Later , he added the maiden name of ...
Thomas Rees - Poor Welch Immigrant
Submitted By: LaRon Taylor | Pioneer: Thomas Rees | Spouse: Rebecca Williams
Thomas Rees, b 4 Jan, 1820, Pembroke, South Wales, md Rebecca Williams 8 Apr, 1841, d 8 Sept, 1892, Wayne County, Utah. This biography is a story of conversion and of a struggle to come to Utah that took years and cooperation of a faithful son. Just 8 days...
Thomas Woolsey, Mormon Battalion Volunteer, Sick Detachment (3 times), Brigham Young Pioneer party of 1847
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Thomas Woolsey | Spouse: Mary Burrell
THOMAS WOOLSEY FAMILY TO UTAH The Mormon Battalion volunteer, Thomas Woolsey (3 Nov 1805-5 Jan 1897), also a member of the Brigham Young Pioneer Company of 1847, was born at Fishing Creek, Lincoln (Pulaski) County, Kentucky, died at West Point, Sanpete County, ...
Thomas Woolsey, Pioneer
Submitted By: Wilford W. Whitaker | Pioneer: Thomas Woolsey | Spouse:
THOMAS WOOLSEY (1805 - 1897) by Wilford Whitaker Descendants of Thomas Woolsey During the years 1846 and 1847, there was much more traffic across the unmarked prairies than what we usually think. There was that seemin...
True Grit: The Elizabeth Cunningham Story
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham | Spouse: James Cunningham
After years of widowhood and a life of hardship, Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham died on March 19, 1890 in American Fork, Utah. Except for her friends and relatives, her passing wasn’t noteworthy at the time. From an historical perspective, however, she lived a remarka...
William Henry Adams, Jr.
Submitted By: Golden V. Adams, Jr. | Pioneer: William Henry Adams Jr. | Spouse: Melissa Jane Caldwell
William Henry Adams Jr. came to Utah with his baby sister and parents when only three years old. During the time they were crossing the plains he was accidentally shot with a pepperbox pistol through both knees, the bullet lodging in the left knee. It was removed by Wil...
William Henry Adams, Sr.
Submitted By: Golden V. Adams, Jr. | Pioneer: William Henry Adams Sr. | Spouse: Martha Jennings
William Henry Adams, Sr., was one of the first three settlers of Pleasant Grove on July 19, 1850 with Philo T. Farnsworth and John Mercer. He scouted the area along Provo River and came back with his report of straight logs for houses, and rocks for foundations. He sur...
William Moore Allred
Submitted By: Morrell Allred | Pioneer: William Moore Allred | Spouse: Orissa Angelia Bates
William Moore Allred was born in Bedford Co., TN on Dec. 24, 1819. He was the fifth child and second son of the 13 children of Isaac Allred and Mary Calvert. The family moved to Monroe Co. Missouri about 1831 and settled near the Salt River. On Sept. 10, 1832 William...
William Wadley's Short-Handled Hoe
Submitted By: Dale W Adams | Pioneer: William Wadley | Spouse: Isabella McKay
In most respects William Wadley was typical of many other people who joined the LDS Church in the mid-1800s in England. Many of them migrated to the Utah Territory, many of them endured hardships during the trip, and many of them settled in difficult places. There ar...
William Wood Sr. From February 3, 1823 to September 18, 1900
Submitted By: Tim Booth | Pioneer: William Wood Sr. | Spouse: Lucy Babcock
History of the Life Of William Wood Senior From February 3, 1823 to September 18, 1900 History of the life of William Wood, Sr, written by himself, but never finished. In order that my children and others may have ...
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