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James Alexander IVIE / Sarah Frances WEST

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[NI1494] "My father was a Mormon and did not stay in one place very long at one time, and while in Missouri we lived mostly in a tent. I was raised that way." James Alexander Ivie
ated a ranch in what is known as Maple Grove for a number of years. After a law suit with the town of Scipio over the water rights, James sold his holdings in Round Valley and moved to Salina. There he farmed for a living, but he also became the town dentist. He might use his harness shop or the kitchen for his dental office, but he would leave his farming any time to pull an aching tooth for a person in pain.

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[NI1495] Sarah left Liverpool, England, on May 3, 1856 with 764 fellow Mormons, bound for New York on the ship Thornton. The group was put on trains in New York and arrived at Iowa City, Iowa on June 26. In Iowa City Sarah West and part of another group were formed into Capt. James G. Willie's Fourth Hand Cart Company. t of a handcart company. She was likely no stranger to hardship. To leave, home alone the the age of 24 to travel in steerage for a month at sea, then to walk a third of the way across the American Continent, a desolate part still inhabited by Indians and buffalo, meant life was likely somewhat desperate in England. No doubt she was inspired by her faith, and the zeal of the missionaries preaching the glorious gathering of Zion, while down playing the grinding drudgery that lay ahead. She began the journey across the plains on July 15 much later in the season than any handcart company had set out before. The Willey and following Martin companies were caught in blizzards while crossing the rocky Mountains in Wyoming. They left Iowa City late, in part because more people came than expected, causing delays to assemble more handcarts and tents. The two companies crossed Iowa in normal time, but repairs at Florence slowed them. Then, on the Mormon Trail, extra flour added to the carts slowed and damaged them. Expected flour at Fort Laramie never came. Short rations and lack of warm clothes drained the travelers' energy. Severe snowstorms caught them, dropping snows up to eighteen inches deep and temperatures below freezing. Food ran out; cattle died; rescue trains from Utah had difficulty reaching the exposed and hungry sufferers. Despite heroic efforts by company members and Utah rescuers, about 200, or one-sixth of the companies, died, and dozens were maimed by frostbite and deprivation. This tragedy was the worst disaster in the history of western overland travel. Rescue wagons carried survivors to Utah over roads kept open by teamsters driving wagons back and forth to pack the snow.(Utah History Encyclopedia)rah West were married a few days after the Wiley party was brought into Salt Lake City.

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[NI1496] Res: 2nd ward

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Benjamin DUTTON / Mary

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[NI2071] Possibly Mary Cone.

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Samuel MUNSON / Mary MERRIMAN

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Yeaton BEATTY / Sarah E. MCKEE

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Adam George GARMAN / Barbara RANCK

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[NI6346] He served as a Private in three units according to DAR record and Pennsylvania Archives, Ser. 5, Vol. 7, pp 122, 130-133, and 979-981. They are : a) Lancaster County Militia, 8th class, in 1777 in Capt Martin Bowman's Company, 10th Battalion commanded by Col. David Jenkins, b) Lancaster County Militia, 4th class, 2nd Battalion, where he served a tour of duty at Lancaster guarding British prisoners of war, and c) Lancaster County Militia in Capt. Stone's Company of the 2nd Battalion.

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Joshua HOTCHKISS / Obedience COOPER

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[NI7641] Daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Smith) Cooper.

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Nathaniel HITCHCOCK / Rebecca MORRIS

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Stephen SCOTT / Hephsibah KILBOURN

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John NORTH / Mary BIRD

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Adelbert GARRISON / (Unknown)

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