Being that I'm living here in Missouri, I really didn't get a chance to celebrate Utah's Pioneer Day, 24th of July.
So, I decided I would pay tribute by posting these of my Pioneer Ancestors.
My Great-Grandfather
1844-1929
Traveled with the Robert Wimmer Company
He was 7 years old when departed on 1 July 1852; 2 years
after I was born
My 2ND GREAT-GRANDFATHER
3 September 1814 – 10 February 1883
Wives Sophia and Amanda Burgess traveled in the Brigham
Young Company in 1848 while Harrison was serving a mission to England. When he
returned in 1850, he joined the Aaron Johnson Company and traveled to Salt Lake
where he was reunited with his wives. His daughter, Sophia Minerva Burgess, born
in Utah, married Gabriel Marion Utley on 1 January 1872.
Amanda Melvina Hammond
My 2ND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
Birth 6 May 1827; Death 8 August 1882.
Traveled in the Brigham Young Company in 1848.
Married Harrison Burgess Feb. 6, 1846.
Levi Hunt
2ND GREAT-GRANDFATHER
1833 –1921
He was 22 years old when he traveled to Utah in 1855 with the
Richard Ballantyne Company
2nd Great-Grandmother
30 March 1839 – 14 June 1863
Jane was 17 years old when in 1856 she traveled with her
family in the James G. Willie Handcart Company. Her father and brother died in
the tragic trek. She barely survived.
Married Levi Hunt in 1858.
John Smith Defreeze Hyatt
2ND GREAT-GRANDFATHER
12 August 1832 – 25 December 1911
In 1846, he sailed from New York, United States to San Francisco,
California. He arrived in Utah in 1848.
Martha Jane Turner (Howd)
2nd Great-Grandmother
14 January 1836 – 10 December 1899
Arrived in Utah on Oct. 2, 1847
Married John Hyatt in Salt Lake Endowment House Jan. 28,
1856.
William Cook Prows
2ND GREAT-GRANDFATHER
11 June 1827 – 23 May 1894, Buried in the Mormon Colony of Colonia
Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico.
After leaving Nauvoo, he was recruited 16 July 1846 at
Council Bluffs, Iowa, serving in the Mexican War Mormon Battalion March;
Dischared to 16 July 1847 in Los Angeles, California.
2ND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
28 July 1835 – 2 September 1922
Under the direction of Amasa Lyman, who was sent from
Brigham Young's vanguard company, her company arrived in Utah in July of 1847.
Married William Cook Prows 14 April 1850.
