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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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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 […]