_Elisha AVERETT _____+
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|_Ruth MCLAIN ___________
[200] BURIAL: Journal of his father, George Washington Gill Averett states: We were living in Pleasant Hill, Pike Co., Illinois. He is buried in the graveyard known as the McMullin or John Sapp plot. The cemetery is on the bluff of the Mississippi river.
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MARRIAGE: When Nancy ws 17 years old she was married to George Washington Gill Averett by Judge Alexander Hemphill on Feb 24, 1853 in Pleasant Hill, Illinois. They were later sealed by Heber C. Kimball in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah on 14 June 1867. Source: Life History written by Effie Syphus
BIOGRAPHY: Nancy had a half brother named John who also came to Utah. She also had two half sisters, Melzenia and Florida. Nancy had very little schooling, so she learned to write after she settled in Washington. She smoked a pipe for a while after being married but George bought her a clock to get her to throw away her pipe. Nancy came to Washington, Utah in 1862 with the rest of the Averetts as part of the cotton mission for the LDS Church. She was the mother of eleven children. All but one of her children grew to maturity.
Source: Life History written by Effie Syphus.
!BURIAL: Headstone in Old Washington Cemetery, Washington, Washington, Utah reads: Nancy Ann T.Averett, 1836-1909. She is buried beside her husband George Washington Gill Averett. Researcher: Georgenia Stewart
LIVED: The arrival of the Turnbaugh family in Pleasant Hill Township dates from March 6, 1827. The head of the family was George Turnbaugh, a native of the state of Kentucky, and before coming to Illinois was a resident of Lincoln county, Missouri for a few years, In coming to our community they crossed the Mississippi at Clarksville and drove their oxteams across the bottoms to where Pleasant Hill now stands. After reaching the bluff they followed the crest of the hill westward and settled in the Stockland neighborhood on land now owned by Stella Webster. George was born in 1792 and died in 1865, and his wife, Nancy, was born in 1794 and died in 1859. The children were: John, Jacob, Joseph, Jonathon, Lenallen, Mrs. Sarah Ann Brandon, Mrs. Margaret Tadlock, James W., Mrs. Lochey R. Farthing and Mrs. Nancy Wilson. From newspaper clipping in my grandmothers scrapbook. From: Captn@nova.org (Jim Kirk), 14 Jan 2001.