Number 2 on the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Photo Key                   Gideon was born in 1840, so he’d have been in his seventh year during the 1847 trek.  His father, John, trusted him to help with the oxen and getting “kitted out” for the journey West.  [...]

        This remarkable woman is Melissa Burton Coray Kimball.  She was a newlywed at 18 years old and wished to join her husband, Sgt William Coray on the Mormon Batallion trek.  She was accepted as a laundress for the soldiers and was allowed to go on the march. She was attached to [...]

            See DUP key photo #77           With special permission from the first Presidency of the Church, on February 18, 1848, William Wallace Casper, a former member of the Mormon Battalion, left the “Old Fort” (located on the site of what is now Pioneer Park) in [...]

    From the Deseret News (Church News)  Oct 2009 “Decker, Isaac Perry – (3rd Ten) One of only two children in the first company, he was born Aug. 7, 1840, in Winchester, Scott Co., Ill., to Isaac and Harriet Page Wheeler Decker. His mother and father divorced in March 1843, and she later married [...]

To my delight, in working over a period of days and weeks with this image file, I discovered the face of my great great great grampa, Jesse Bigler Martin.  He is at #83 on the numbered photo image file on the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers site. http://www.dupinternational.org/jubilee/pioneersnumbered.htm The key also says that his first [...]