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This keepsake photograph was taken at the home of Nephi and Flora Bates in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah in about 1950. Seated is Sarah Sprague Bates. Behind her is her son Nephi James Bates (1875-1958) and her granddaughter Lucile Bates Ford. On either side of Sarah are her great-grandchildren. They are the children of her […]
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This keepsake photograph is of Sarah Sprague Bates. She was born in Utah in 1853 to Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. In 1870 she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921. They became the parents of twelve children but later divorced. This photograph was taken at the home of her son Nephi James Bates 1875-1958. The place […]
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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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Sarah Sprague was the third child of five born to her parents Ithamer Sprague and Sarah Stedwell. Sarah’s mother of the same name had been married twice before she married Ithamer, Sarah’s father. Her life had been full of tremendous heartache. When Sarah was eighteen, she married Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 in Washington County, Utah. […]
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This is the funeral program for Nephi James Bates who was born in 1875 to Nephi James Bates and Sarah Sprague. His funeral was held in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. Following the service he was buried in the Richfield City Cemetery.
posted by Sandy on Stories Within Stories
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Many of our ancestors lived through the events in the early Church including the trials and tribulations which befell the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois. Many journals, including that of George Morris and Jonathan Pugmire talk of their direct contact with the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, the Patriarch, Hyrum Smith. Other journals from the […]
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The events which took place in and around Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois are laced through the lives of many of our ancestors. Many were converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in their native lands of Europe and in their towns and cities across New England and in other parts of America. They […]
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Some stories are hard to read. The story of the life of Sarah Stedwell is one of those stories. She was born to Abraham Stedwell and Rebecca Shefield in New York. She was the second of ten children born to her parents. Her family moved from New York to Ohio and then to LaHarpe in […]
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There are so many tragedies related to the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. One such tragedy occured at a place called Mt. Pisgah, which is a name from the Old Testament. Here, the Saints were camped by the hundreds awaiting the time when they would move on to The Valley […]