_John AVERETT __________+
_Elisha AVERETT __|
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|_Sarah Jane WITT _|
|_Dorcas WILLIS _________+
[88] BIOGRAPHY: Dorcas Averett had fifteen children. SOURCE: Erma H. Skeem, Oasis, Utah in "Averitt Lines and Related Families" by Christine Walser.
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|_Dorcas AVERETT ______|
|_Sarah Jane WITT ___+
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|_Clarissa Maud AVERETT _|
|_Laura Abigail MAXWELL ___+
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_Samuel Alexander Pagan KELSEY _|
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|_Jennet AVERETT ________________|
|_Jannett Hamilton GILL _+
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When Elenor was five years old her parents joined the Church and went to Far West, Missouri with the Saints. They were driven from there home to Illinois, and they went with the Saints to Quincy, later moving up the river to Nauvoo.
We know little of her girlhood days, except that she lived in Nauvoo. She was fourteen years old when the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred, and she was sixteen years old when the Saints were driven from Nauvoo. Her mother and her older sister were charter members of the first Relief Sociey organization. She was not old enough to join at that time. The Kelsy family moved from Nauvoo to Quincy when the Saints were driven out. Here she became acquainted with a neighbor boy, Levi Walter Everton, and married him when she was nineteen years of age. She had three children, Lauretta, Marion Cecil, and Emma Samantha. After seven years of married life her husband died.
She was a widow in Quincy for four years, then in 1860 her father, who had moved to Utah nine years previously, made a trip across the plains by ox team to get his daughter and her two children and bring them to Utah. He arrived in Quincy in the late summer of 1860, and made preparations to return immediately to Utah. His son, Thomas, and his daughter, Dianah, lived in Iowa. On the road to Utah they stopped in Iowa to visit with Thomas and Diannah, who persuaded them to remain in Iowa during the winter. The following spring they started for Utah, and some time during the summer landed in Smithfield, Utah. At that time the people were living in the fort.
Elenor and her children spent the winter of 1861 and 1862 with her father and mother in the old fort at Smithfield. In 1862 she married Chauncey Rogers of Logan and moved to Logan with her two children. If her home were still standing it would be numbered about 35 West on 3rd Street, Logan. Logan had been settled less than three years when she moved here, so that pioneer conditions still prevailed during the time of her residence in Logan.
After five years residence in Logan another move was made, this time to Bloomington, Bear Lake County, Idaho. They were among the first settlers in Bloomington and endured the hardships of pioneering in that new country. When their wheat crop failed it was necessary to get wheat from Cache Valley to carry them through the winter, and when snows were deep and roads poor and few, it was not always easy to get medical aid, food and other necessities from the nearest settlement in Cache Valley.
After several years' residence in Bloomington, they made another move, this time to Richmond, Cache County, Utah. While we do not have the exact date, as nearly as I can compute, they moved to Bear Lake in 1866. They moved back to Richmond in 1870, and in 1871 moved to Lewiston, where they became pioneer settlers again.
In 1873 Elenor was taken with an attack of typhoid fever and died. Her body was buried in the cemetery at Smithfield, the home of her parents. She had four sons Chauncey Rogers, namely, Woodfrod, Ottis, Walter and Oscar.
My father's description of her would indicate that she was of a very peaceable disposition. There were three daughters in her mother's family. The other two sisters could not agree, but either one of them could agree with Elenor, or when they had a disagreement it was her privilege to bring about a reconciliation and make peace between them. She was well beloved by her brothers and her sisters. Mrs. Rawlins of Logan 3rd Ward, was a neighbor to the Rogers family in Lewiston. She says Elenor was a good-looking lady.
SOURCE:This was copied from the Everton book. B. Walter Everton's daughter, Mrs. Laura Wagstaff.
_Samuel KELSEY _________+
_Samuel Alexander Pagan KELSEY _|
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|_Jennet AVERETT ________________|
|_Jannett Hamilton GILL _+
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|_Sarah Ann AVERETT ___+