July 25, 2021

Tribute to my Pioneer Ancestors

 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.


Gabriel Marion Utley

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

 

Harrison Burgess

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

 

Jane M Gadd

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.

 

Lodesky Ann Roberds

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.        




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