Thomas Moulton, Pioneer of 1856 2 Thomas Moulton was born 10 November 1810 at Irchester, England. He was the son of William and Sarah Home Moulton, and his father died…
Thomas Moulton, Pioneer of 1856
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Samuel Whitney Richards
Samuel Whitney Richards 1 Samuel W. Richards, born in Richmond, Mass., August 9, 1824, was the sixth child of Wealthy Dewy and Phineas Richards. , , , A cousin –…
Ammon Tunis Rappleye
Ammon Tunis RappleyeArticle by Janell Kleinman Nichols, Great Granddaughter of Ammon Tunis Rappleye.This history has been edited and condensed from a collection of histories in the possessionof the writer. Those…
Life Story of James Ephraim Twitchell
My great grandfather was born 19 October 1834 in (McCame), McDonough County, IL. That is just 101 years before my birth. McDonough County is the county in which Carthage, IL…
Bailey, Charles Ramsden
Charles Ramsden Bailey In his autobiography, Charles Ramsden ‘Bailey’ makes this profound statement concerning his involvement in plural marriage: “It was the grandest step in my whole life and while…
Blackner, James Henry and Jane Allen
James Henry Blackner and Jane Allen Blackner by Kay E Blackner My Great Grandfather, James Henry Blackner, and my Great Grandmother, Jane Allen Blackner, were born in (GF) Hullnall, Forkhead,…
WARD, Lucy A Member of the Willie Handcart Company
Pioneer information and story provided by Hal Reeder, to SUP Library on April 13, 2016. Story written by Isabell May Tinsley Johnson, (granddaughter of Lucy Ward) from the article titled…
PRATT, Orson
This article originally appeared in History of Utah, Vol.4 by Orson F. Whitney This famous Apostle and Pioneer, one of the most prominent figures in the founding of Utah, was…
HEATH, Henry: Linked in History to Jean Baptiste, “the Ghoul of the Great Salt Lake”
Submitted by Michael Jordan Henry Heath, born 11/22/1828 in England. Died 3/30/1908 in Salt Lake City Utah Jean Baptiste, born 1813 in Ireland; Died unknown. Henry Heath and Jean Baptiste…
SAVAGE, David Leonard
Submitted by L. LaMar Adams Born: 7/25/1810 Johnstown, Edwardsburh, Leeds and Grenville Ontario Canada Died: 4/26/1886 Snowflake, Apache, Arizona Territory A SAVAGE INDIAN STORY From History of David Leonard Savage,…
GILLIES, Ebenezer
Born 11/16/1819, Blairloggie, Perth, Scotland Died: 4/24/1883, Beaver, Utah Ebenezer Gillies was born November 16, 1819 at Blairlogie Perth, Scotland, the son of John Gillies and Christina Gibb. He was…
FOX, Charles Wilson
Submitted by Susan Hawkes Born: 14 Sept 1823, Derbyshire, England Died: 8 Jan 1880, Franklin, Idaho Charles Wilson Fox was born in Derbyshire, England in 1823; he was the son…
GREENHALGH, William: In his Own Words
Submitted by Jake Smith William Greenhalgh Born: 7/29/1811, Bolton, Lancashire, England Died: 04/03/1882, Spring Lake, Utah William GREENHALGH was born on 29 July 1811, the son of Robert GREENHALGH and…
MITCHELL, James Jr. & Anne Hull
Up north in the Upper Snake River Valley, the virgin soil was bringing forth bounteous crops. This land could be had almost for the asking, so James took advantage of the pre-exemption rights of the Homestead Act and secured 360 acres of virgin soil just two miles north of Shelley, Idaho. So it was that in 1885, James came to Idaho.
DAVENPORT, James and Almira Phelps
In this spring of 1847, James Davenport was recruited as a blacksmith for the first company to leave with Brigham Young for the Great Basin of the West. They would generally follow the Oregon/California Trail along the Platte River. But they deliberately chose the opposite side of the river from the well-traveled side. Part of the mission of that first company was to identify the best route for the trail and the best sources for feed for the livestock, and to improve the road for the thousands that would follow. There were worrisome encounters with Indians, whose intentions were not well-know at the time, but no serious troubles occurred.