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| M - 4th Ggrandfather |
Parents William Houston and Catherine Boyle
Born abt 1779 Franklin Co, Pennsylvania
Married Mary Magdalena Ettleman 7 Sep 1813 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Buried Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska
Note: No stone exists
Sources
Book: LDS Biographical Encyclopedia Vol 1 page 800
Family Search
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His parents, wife, and children: http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm#20
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| LDS Pioneers |
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| Group Headstone |
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| M - 4th Ggrandmother |
Parents Jacob Frederick Ettleman and Chloe Ann Benner
Christened 27 Aug 1786 Franconia Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Died 26 Mar 1847 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
COD: Scurvy (poor nutrition)
Buried Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska Plot #116
Note: Remember her name appears as Mary Houston on the monument
Sources
Online: http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
NOTE: This link is no longer operative as of 2020
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35005827/mary-magdalena-houston
Her personal plot: http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/graves.aspx#Top
NOTE: This link is no longer operative as of 2020
Family Search
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CHILDREN
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| Elizabeth H McBee |
Born 25 Feb 1814 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married James Riley McBee 27 Jan 1831 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Note: married by George Roberts, Justice of the Peace
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| Obituary |
Died 6 Mar 1893 Tinney's Point, Missouri
COD: Paralysis and old age
Buried: McBee Chapel Cemetery, Carroll, Missouri
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| Headstone |
Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ohio County Marriages 1789-1994 Film 897628 page 218
1850 US Census for Ray County, Ray, Missouri (age 35)
1860 US Census for Morris, Carroll, Missouri (age 46)
1870 US Census for Morris, Carroll, Missouri (age 56)
1880 US Census for Bates, Carroll, Missouri page 403C (age 66, widow, living with son, David)
Family Search
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91515559/elizabeth-mcbee
Born 17 May 1816 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married Christiana Ettleman 15 Oct 1840 Adams, Illinois
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| Christiana's obituary |
Children: William, Catherine, Lucy, Mary, Wilson, John
Died and Buried 5 July 1852 On the plains
Life Events:
John marched in Zion's Camp.
John crossed the plains in a handcart company, died, and was buried along the trail.
John was a member of the Quorum of Seventy and ordained as such in Nauvoo.
John served in the Military as Private, Company E
Sources
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
NOTE: This link is no longer operative as of 2020
Illinois County Marriages 1810-1934
Christiana Ettleman Houston Forney's obituary
The following sources were listed on Family Search
The Forney Five Family Records by Charles W Forney 1931 Standard Printing Company, Boone, Iowa p 72. Nauvoo Land & Records Office A biographical story written for the young child by Dorothy Wight Brinck is in the Daughter of the Utah Pioneer's Files for John Houston.
ancestry.com
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| Headstone |
Born 11 Sep 1818 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married: 1) Joseph Smith Jr 1842 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Note: This marriage is debatable.
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| Heber Chase Kimball |
Note; she was one of 43 wives - they had no children)Note: Some have recorded this as a proxy Temple marriage
Died 24 Dec 1896 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried 27 Dec 1896 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah Plot A-8-75-E
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69396974/mary-kimball
Wiki about Joseph/wives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives#cite_note-SmithGD-12
Wiki about Heber/wives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_C._Kimball
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| Anne Houston Headstone |
Married Newel Kimball Whitney 7 Jan 1846 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Children: Jethro
Note: this is her ONLY child
Died 16 Nov 1848 Winter Quarters, Douglas, Nebraska
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| Newel K Whitney |
Buried: Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Note: Supposedly the first person to be buried in the private cemetery. What it does not say it if she died in Nebraska and her body brought to Salt Lake.
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65790/anne-whitney
The Utah genealogical and historical magazine, Volumes 28-29 page 67
Family Search
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| Sarah Houston Pratt headstone |
Born 3 Aug 1822 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
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| Parley Parker Pratt picture likely taken by Marsena Cannon |
Children: Julia, Mormon, Teancum, Sarah, David
2) A. Louis Taussig 15 Nov 1857 President's Office, Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake, Utah (polygamy - 3rd wife)
Children: Isabell, David, William
When Louis deserted them, Sarah took back the surname Pratt, and the two older children, Isabell and David, also took the Pratt name.3) Culbert King This is NOT her husband, but her son-in-law, married to her daughter Sarah (thank you Paul for pointing this out in the comments)
Died 22 May 1886 Coyote, Garfield, Utah
COD: dropsy (edema)
Buried Antimony Cemetery, Antimony, Garfield, Utah
Her obituary
A Hard Experience
Richfield, June 15, 1886
Editor Deseret News:
I send you a very brief sketch of the life of Sister Sarah Houston Pratt, who died at Coyote Creek, Grass Valley, Garfield County, May 26th 1886, which you will confer a favor by publishing.
She was the daughter of James and Mary Houston, born in Stark County, Ohio, August 3rd, 1823. When 9 years of age she became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and, with her parents, gathered with the Church and suffered in all the persecutions of that time.
In 1848 she was married to Apostle Parley P. Pratt, and in 1847, in company with her husband and the first company of Saints, started across the plains, traveling on foot, with her infant in her arms, most of the way. From that time until her demise she suffered many severe hardships; but in the hardest trials she trusted in the will of God. It may truly be said of her, “Thou hast come out of much tribulation.” Of late she has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Sarah E. King, at Grass Valley. She leaves 6 children and 30 grandchildren to mourn her departure.
–J.G.
[Deseret News, June 30, 1886]
[Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 15, 1886, 4]
Sources
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
1870 US Census (age 47, working as domestic servant for the J. Smith family)
1880 US Census (age 56, occupation: Spinning at home, living with Eugene and Wesley Pratt - supposedly children of hers)
http://jared.pratt-family.org/parley_family_histories/list_parley_wives_histories.html
Online: History of Parley Parker Pratt by Marie Dean Speakman
Patriarchal Blessing of Sarah Pratt
Obituary Deseret News, June 9, 1886
History of Sarah Houston Pratt and A. Lewis Taussig by Phil Cowley
“Research Report on Sarah Houston Pratt (Taussig)” by Angie M. Grigg.
Personal History of Sarah Huston Pratt Tausig by Gardner Cousins, Blane Gardner, 1983
Family Search
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| Susanna Houston Mitchell |
* Susannah HoustonBorn 11 Feb 1826 Jackson, Stark, Ohio
Married 1) Gideon Cooper Matlock 1848 Council Bluffs, Pottawatomie, Iowa
Children: Alexander
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| Susanna Mitchell headstone |
Children: Thomas, Edward, Erastus, Charles, Lehi, Nephi, Walter
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| M - 3rd Ggrandmother |
Salt Lake, Utah
Buried 8 May 1900 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7543293/susanna-mitchell
1860 US Census for Utah, 15th ward, page 152 (age 34, called 'Susan')
1880 US Census for Utah (age 54, widow)
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
Family Search
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| Catherine Houston Alexander |
Born 12 Mar 1831 West Canton, Stark, Ohio
Traveled with the Willard Richard's Company to Utah Jul-Oct 1848
Married Horace Martin Alexander 15 Feb 1849 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Died 22 Mar 1900 Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah
Buried: Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Utah, Utah
Sources
http://winterquarters.byu.edu/pages/ward4/pafg01.htm
Online: Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail 1847-1868
Online: Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail 1847-1868
A short history written by Lucille H. Walker
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| Catherine's shared headstone |
1) Catherine became an orphan on 21 Mar 1847 when her mother died in Winter Quarters (see Winter Quarters Project website) so she was not an orphan when she first arrived there and likely traveled to Winter Quarters with her mother and maybe a married sister or two.
2) In the story, Catherine's sisters were listed as Mrs. Heber C. Kimball and Mrs. Henry Rollins. Anne, her sister, did marry Heber, but I the way I understood it, Mrs. Rollins was actually the sister of
"...with Nancy (Horace's 1st wife) during her illness was my grandmother, Catherine Houston, then an orphan girl of fifteen years. After the children went to live with Nancy's sister, Mrs. Henry Rollins. Catherine was taken along too, to take care of the children who loved her. Together they crossed the plains.
Grandfather received word that his children, with one of the Parley Pratt Companies was well on its way to the Valley. (NOTE: Catherine traveled at the age of 16 with the Willard Richards company which left 3 Jul 1848 and arrived in Salt Lake in mid October 1848) So with a few other brothers he hurried forth again on horseback to meet them. It is thought that he sighted the emigrant train somewhere in Wyoming. Grandmother still continued to live with the Henry Rollins family and to take care of the little Alexanders until her marriage to Horace.
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| Horace Martin Alexander |
Grandfather received word that his children, with one of the Parley Pratt Companies was well on its way to the Valley. (NOTE: Catherine traveled at the age of 16 with the Willard Richards company which left 3 Jul 1848 and arrived in Salt Lake in mid October 1848) So with a few other brothers he hurried forth again on horseback to meet them. It is thought that he sighted the emigrant train somewhere in Wyoming. Grandmother still continued to live with the Henry Rollins family and to take care of the little Alexanders until her marriage to Horace.
Sarah Houston was not married to Culbert King. Culbert King was mared to Sarah's daughter Sarah Elizabeth Pratt. This is a common error.
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