_John AVERETT __________+
_Elisha AVERETT __|
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|--Byron AVERETT
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| _Robert L. WITT ________+
|_Sarah Jane WITT _|
|_Dorcas WILLIS _________+
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MARRIAGE: He married his first cousin, Sonora Elizabeth Averett, the daughter of George Washington Gill Averett and Nancy Turnbeaugh on January 11, 1898 in the St. George temple. Marriage Date Variation - 11 June 1895
HISTORY: Byron spent his early life in Sourthern Utah and was living at Glendale, Kane County at the time of his marriage to Sonora Elizabeth Averett. In 1901 Jedidiah Grant called Byron and two of his brothers along with many other Dixie settlers to move to the Big Horn country in Wyoming. In December of that year they pulled and moved to Lovell, Wyoming arriving in the spring and it was there that Sonora had a stillborn girl and also a son. They were the parents of six children. They lived in Washington, Utah in 1909 and in 1910 then moved to Twin Falls, Idaho. Their later years were spent in St. George, Utah, Idaho, and Phoenix, Arizona. Byron died September 3, 1954, at Twin Falls, Idaho, and was buried there beside his wife. Byron and Sonora were good citizens, and parents and left footprints in the sands of time that are deep, well planted and hard to follow.
SOURCE: Histories by Mary Ann Price Chai, grandaughter
_Aaron AVERETT ____+
_John AVERETT __________|
| |_Martha RAY _______+
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|--John R. AVERETT
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| _George GILL ______+
|_Jannett Hamilton GILL _|
|_Jennett HAMILTON _+
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BIOGRAPHY: The journal of George Washington Gill Averett, John's brother states: John was the eighth child of John and Jennett Gill Averett. He lived with his parents until the fall of 1839. When he was 18 years old he ran away, went down the Mississippi River, going out into Hamilton County, Illinois. He stayed there about two years, then he went back home to Pike County, Illinois where his parents were living. Here he married in 1843 a Rebecca Hubbard, daughter of Eli Hubbard. They had one child who died soon after birth. John Averett died in Septemter of 1852 and later his wife married Elisha G. Harper. Elisha was a widower who had been married to John's sister, Pyrenia.
BURIAL: Journal of George Washington Gill Averett states: John and Rebecca were living in Pleasant Hill, Pike Co., Illinois. Their infant daughter is buried in the graveyard known as the McMullin or John Sapp plot. The cemetery is on the bluff of the Mississippi river.
_Elisha AVERETT __________+
_George AVERETT ________|
| |_Sarah Jane WITT _________+
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|--Myrl AVERETT
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| _James LEITHEAD __________
|_Edith Mahala LEITHEAD _|
|_Lucinda Sevella GARDNER _
_Lester Mark HALSTEAD ___
_Lester Mark Jr. HALSTEAD _|
| |_Eleanor Grace BRADFORD _+
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|--Gregory Jason COOK
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|_Judy Lynn COOK ___________|
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_Wilson Glen SHUMWAY ____+
_Clarance SHUMWAY _|
| |_Maria Janette AVERETT __+
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|--Jesse Fredrick SHUMWAY
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| _Jesse Nathaniel SMITH __
|_Esther SMITH _____|
|_Janet Mauretta JOHNSON _
_John TURNBEAUGH ___
_William TURNBEAUGH _______|
| |_Ruth MCLAIN _______
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|--Maggie A TURNBEAUGH
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| _Elijah AVERETT ____+
|_Melissa Ermizade AVERETT _|
|_Cherrizade GRIMES _+
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_Gale Glendon WORKMAN __|
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|--Pearl Irene WORKMAN
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| _David William CAMPBELL __+
|_Lavina Janet CAMPBELL _|
|_Kizzie Ann Jane AVERETT _+