NAUVOO!

Images, top to bottom: Seventies Hall, Nauvoo Temple, land and homesite of William Burt Simmons (next door to the boot shop and John Taylor home and print shop, and one block from Joseph Smith home), Heber C. Kimball home, Brigham Young home.

For the interested historians, I have nine direct line pioneer ancestors (grandparents of various generations) who joined the church in Great Britain and made the voyage across the ocean and then crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. They are: Ann (Adams) Boyd, George Alfred Boyd, Elizabeth (Hollis) Roe (died en route- either near Mormon Grove, near Atchison, Kansas or near St. Louis, MO), Isabella Jane Roe, Caroline (Richan) Fenton, John Richan, Margaret Rayne (Wardell) Richan, Elizabeth (Hutchison) Moyes (joined the church in 1840), and Margaret (Moyes) Anderson.

Brad has 21 direct line pioneer ancestors (grandparents), 10 of whom were in Kirtland, and 15 of whom were in Nauvoo, 6 of whom joined in Great Britain and made the journey across the ocean to join the saints, and some of whom died before the journey across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. They are: Catherine Martha (Eller) Stoker (died in Iowa), Barbara (Graybill) Stoker, Michael S. Graybill, Sr. (died in Iowa), Enoch King, Sr. (died at Far West, MO), Rebecca Angelina (King) O'Brien, Thomas Jefferson King (joined the church in 1830), Zibiah (McCarley) McDaniel, James McDaniel, Jane (McDaniel) Stoker, Harlon Edward Simmons, William Burt Simmons, Amanda (Chipman) Simmons, David Stoker, Michael Stoker, Sr., John Stoker, James Hepworth, Thomas Hepworth, Mary (Fletcher) Hepworth, Charles Kidgell, Sarah Ann (Cashmore) Kidgell, Sarah (Kidgell) Hepworth.