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John Sant was born to Abel Sant and Margaret Bayley in England. He was the seventh of twelve children born to his parents. When John was just ten years of age, his father was convicted of having a file in his lunch pail and sentenced to the prison ship which traveled to Australia. This method […]
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John Thompson Barker was born in England to Thomas Barker and Elizabeth Thompson. He was the eighth of thirteen children which were seven girls and six boys. Five of the children died in infancy and one, a brother died at the age of twenty-seven. In 1856, at the age of 18, John and his family […]
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Jonathan Pugmire was born in England to Jonathan Pugmire and Hannah Hetherington. He appears to have been their only child. During his childhood he was raised by his mother and a step-father named Thomas Coulthard. Jonathan went by his step-father’s name when he was young. We don’t know if his father died or if his […]
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Maria Susannah Merrick was born in England to James Merrick and Mary Vaux. Her life story has been somewhat difficult to tell. That is because for many years, from the time she came to America until just two years ago, the written history of her life contained incorrect information. We have corrected the record in […]
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Joseph Hyrum Pugmire was born in Liverpool, England to parents Jonathan Pugmire and Elizabeth Barnes. He was the fifth child of ten born to his parents. His parents joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in their native Raughton Head, England and were waiting in Liverpool for their trip across the ocean to America […]
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Justin Gerald Pugmire was born to Justin Pugmire and Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom in Fish Haven, Bear Lake County, Idaho. He was the oldest child and son of 13 children born to his parents. In 1912 he married Clara Lzina Barker who was from St. Charles, Idaho. They lived for a time in the Bear Lake […]
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Nephi James Bates was born to Nephi James Bates and Sarah Sprague in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah. He was the second child and first son of 12 children born to his parents. His personal journal has been preserved and tells us much more about him. In 1901 he married Flora Louise Maiben in the Manti […]
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Nephi James Bates was born to Mary Ann Jones Jacaway and James Bates. Nephi’s mother was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was living in the city of New Orleans at the time of James’ birth. She had children from her first marriage to Fields Jacaway, who had died an […]
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Jerome Timothy Watrous was born to Timothy Watrous and Mary Rowley in what would become Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. His father Timothy, along with many others, migrated from various places but primarily from Connecticut to Ohio. There, Timothy Watrous bought a large piece of land. Just a few months short of Jerome’s birth, his father […]
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Martin Kern Schillinger was the third child of four born to Albert Jerome Schillinger and Margaret Conley. His brother Lowell died as a child, sister Lois as a young adult while his younger brother Thomas lived until 2003. Martin’s grandparents were Martin Schillinger who was born in Germany and migrated to the United States and […]