Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Annie Eliza Sheen: Death Certificate


This is the death certificate of my 2nd great grandmother Annie Eliza Sheen that I obtained from the Utah State Archives online.


This death certificate says she was born in Kaysville, Utah on February 14, 1860.  (This post talks about possible issues with this information.)  Her parents are James and Mary Sheen.  This says they were born in Utah but I'm pretty sure that's not right.

She passed away June 21, 1945 in Ogden, Utah.  Cause of death is listed as myocarditis.

She was married to Neriah Thomas Moore Jr.

The informant was my great grandmother Erma Squires (Moore).  Her signature is on the document.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Mormon Overland Trail Database: Part 6

Part 5 of the series is here.

This post talks about the Jacob Stevens family.  Jacob Stevens was my 3rd great grandfather.

The family traveled with the Warren S. Snow company in 1864.  They traveled by wagons from Wyoming, Nebraska about the 13th of August.  They arrived in Salt Lake on November 2nd.

Traveling with Jacob was his wife Eliza Symons (3rd great grandmother) and their two sons, William Henry Stevens (2nd great grandfather) and Thomas Jordan Stevens.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

John Fell Squires (1846-1933): Gravesite



The is the gravesite of John Fell Squires, my 2nd great grandfather. These photos come from the findagrave.com website.

He is buried in the Logan City Cemetery in Logan, Utah.


The following paragraph is included in the website:

John Fell Squires was the 2nd child of John Paternoster and Catherine Harriet Fell Squires. The family was converted to the LDS church in 1853 and left for America on the ship the International the same year. It took ten weeks to reach New Orleans, and from there they traveled up the Mississippi river to Iowa and on to the Salt Lake Valley. John met his future wife as a small child traveling in the same pioneer company across the plains. Alice Penn Maiben and John were married 7 Aug 1868 and had 12 children together, 9 of which grew to adulthood. John was a colorful and witty man, a writer and teller of exaggerated and entertaining stories. He was the first Cache National Forest ranger.