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Priscilla Clark was born in England in 1826. In 1853, she married direct ancestor George Pickett after the death of his wife Maria Jarvis. George had three children at the time he married Priscilla. Daughter Jane Pickett is our direct ancestor. She married John Thompson Barker. Priscilla and George emigrated from England to America with […]
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Bunkerville, Nevada was an early Mormon settlement dedicated to raising cotton. Direct ancestor Ithamer Thomas Sprague agreed to go there to colonize. Bunkerville was the only successful early settlement to live The United Order. When Ithamer knew that he was going to this part of the country, not far from present-day St. George, Utah in […]
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This is the grave stone for Ithamer Thomas Sprague. It is located in the Bunkerville City Cemetery across the Utah border into Nevada. The cemetery holds many members of Ithamer’s family. Bunkerville was the only successful early Mormon settlement where the United Order was lived. Ithamer participated in this effort. A great deal is known […]
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Ithamer Thomas Sprague was born in New York to Hezikiah Sprague and Abigail Jeffers. He was the eighth child of eleven born to his parents. Ithamer is an unusual name. It was the name of one of the sons of Aaron, who was charged with administering the rites of the Temple in the days […]
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Stewart was the second child and oldest son of Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. From all we have read and found, Stewart appears to have been a fine man. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the army and served from Coshocton County, Ohio for the Union in The Civil War. His uncle […]