Albert G. Conwell 1846-1886
2010
Albert G. Conwell was born in Illinois. He married Carrie Virginia Pancake, daughter of Samuel Crawford Pancake and his wife Catharine Darling in about 1876. Albert and his wife Carrie were the first of her large family to come to Utah to work and invest in the explosion of profitable mines. Albert and Carrie settled in Springville, Utah where they became the parents of two children. Juliet Galena and George. Juliet was the name of another of Carrie’s sisters who had come to Utah. Also living with them was Carrie’s brother Marion Darling Pancake who worked with his brother-in-law in the mines. The census of 1880 finds these five people together. We know that during the next two years, many additional members of Carrie’s large family came to Utah seeking the same success. In 1883, Marion Pancake died of consumption at the age of twenty-seven. His death prompted his father Samuel to purchase a plot of twelve graves in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. Marion was buried there, followed by the infant Martin Watrous in 1885 and in 1886, Albert Conwell at age 40 died as a result of his exposure to the hazards of the mines. He was laid to rest next to his brother-in-law Marion.
Albert’s widow Carrie stayed in Salt Lake City with her family until they moved on to California. She moved with them and took her two children with her. She remarried to a man named Drage. Galena returned to Utah to marry Dr. John Ulrich Giesy. Both Galena and John are buried in the Samuel Pancake family plot with Albert, a grandfather Samuel Pancake and other family members.
The migration of Albert G. Conwell
Illinois to Utah