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Samuel Walter Jarvis, fifth child of George and Ann Prior Jarvis, born in London, Middlesex, England, April 18th, 1854, married, first, Fran...

Frances (Fanny) Godfrey Defriez was born May 5th, 1859, in London, Middlesex, England, was the youngest daughter of Dr. Joseph George and Ma...

[The missionaries to the Arizona settlements had split up to travel through the arid areas of northern Arizona.] On April 20th when they s...

As I've mentioned before, I'm currently working on the history of the Springthorpe family. I was going through my dad's scanned ...

[Ed.—In this excerpt, the travelers are back in the Hualapai Valley, with some contradictory information. The book about Henry Martin Tanner...

On March 21, 1877, they left the river and started on their way. The trip from here to the San Francisco Peaks proved to be the most trying ...

Another highlight of the crossing was the swimming of Mag, one of the white mares of the Tanner team. She was a marvelous swimmer and carrie...

Some distance out from St. George, the company was joined by John Bushman and his second wife, Mary Peterson, and daughter Lois. They had pr...

Henry M. Tanner and Eliza Ellen Parkinson were married January 25, 1877, in the St. George Temple. He was twenty-four and she nineteen. Henr...

After I started working on a post about the David Nathan and Adeline Springthorpe Thomas family, it quickly became clear that it was a much ...