Susannah (Smith) Roper

Back in April Terry sent me this great link for our Third Great Grandmother Susannah (Smith) Roper.

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847?1868
1848 Heber C. Kimball Company

Roper, Susanna (44)
Roper, Joseph B. (13)
Roper, Henry or John (12)
Roper, Mary Elizabeth (7)

Note: Susannah was Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor Roper’s future Mother-in-law whom she was cared for by after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley as a member of the Edward Martin (Handcart) Company. The Ropers had immigrated to the Salt Lake Valley 8 1/2 year before during the summer of 1848.

Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor Roper History

Charlotte Elizabeth Mellor, the third child of James Mellor and Mary Ann Payne Mellor was born at Lincolnshire, England, January 16, 1842. She worked in a factory when very young, making infant bonnets. Her parents joined the Mormon Church in England in 1844 and were active in helping the missionaries teach the gospel to their family and friends. After a few years they became eager to join the Saints in Utah and began preparing to make the journey.
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Brief Sketch of Thomas E. Morley

Thomas E. Morley was a man of large stature, weighing over two hundred pounds. He was a wheel wright by trade, was considered a temperate man, though he used tobacco and drank tea. He took no intoxicants. His family belonged to the Presbyterian church. In the year of 1829 he moved to Kirtland, Ohio, where he and his wife Editha spent the last 17 years of their lives on a farm. He worked mostly at his trade.
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Dry Fork (Mountain Dell), Uintah, Utah

UT Gen Web

Originally known as Mountain Dell, the town of Dry Fork first settled in 1878. It got it’s name from the fact that it was the “Dry Fork” of the Ashley Creek for most of the year. Teancum Taylor was an early settler in the Ashley Valley and a polygamist who housed one of his wives at Dry Fork. In 1877 he persuaded several families from Ashley Town to settle in the Dry Fork area by dividing up land he had settled and giving lots to anyone who would build on it.

Alma Taylor and Chellus Hall brought the first loads of logs out of the mountains in order to build a schoolhouse. The first school teacher here was Mark Hall. Other early residents were the familes of Thomas Bingham Sr., Thomas Bingham Jr., Fred Williams, a Mr. Burns, George Keary, John Nielson, Charles Nye, Orson Nye, William Perry, Lee Hall, Iowa Hall, and Fletcher Hammond.