_Elisha AVERETT ___+
_William AVERETT __|
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| _Thomas HICKEN ____
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|_Catherine FEWKES _
_James Lafayette AVERETT _+
_Charles Ray AVERETT _|
| |_Laura Abigail MAXWELL ___+
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_Leonard Dale BARNES _|
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| _Sumner Udall STEWART _+
|_Beverly Ann STEWART _|
|_Sarah Jane PARIS _____+
_John Wesley CLARK _
_James Madison CLARK _|
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|--Fernando CLARK
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| _Elisha AVERETT ____+
|_Dorcas AVERETT ______|
|_Sarah Jane WITT ___+
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|--George CLARK
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| _James Lafayette AVERETT _+
|_Laura Eulalia AVERETT _|
|_Laura Abigail MAXWELL ___+
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BIOGRAPHY: LEVI WALTER EVERTON
(1824-1856) Husband of Elenor Jennett Kelsey, niece of Elijah Averett Daughter of Jennet Averett and Samuel Alexander Pagon Kelsey
(Written by W. M. Everton)
Levi Walter Everton was the only son in a family of girls and from what I can learn he was greatly beloved by all his sisters. Apparently he was of a studious disposition as he acted as a surveyor in his early manhood. We do not know when the move was made from Ohio to Quincy, Illinois but the first information we have concerning Levi Walter, he lived in Quincy. His father and his sisters lived there, and his mother had died. We are not certain whether she came to Illinois or died in Ohio.
When the Saints were driven from Nauvoo, the Kelsey family moved from Nauvoo down the river to Quincy, and settled near the Everton family. Levi Walter Everton became a chum of the older son in the Kelsey family, Tommy, and they visited at each other's homes naturally. The result of these visits was that Thomas fell in love with and married Levi Walter's sister, Sarah, and Levi Walter fell in love with and married Thomas' sister Elenor Jennet. They were married in 1849 when Elenor Jennet was nineteen years old and Levi Walter twenty-five years of age.
After his marriage he worked in a stove foundry and continued to live in Quincy, having his home near the Mississippi River. In the foundry they used something which the family called 'black lead' for dusting the castings, or blacking the stoves, or for some other purpose. Levi Walter worked with this material until it got into his lungs and he died from lead poisoning.
Levi Walter was of a religious disposition, and undoubtedly should have accepted the gospel had it been presented to him. At that time there was no branch of the Church in Quincy. Levi Walter's father-in-law moved to Salt Lake City, Utah so that he had the privilege of associating with him for only a short period of time. Elenor Jennet, his wife, was young and was perhaps unable to present the gospel to him. His brother-in-law, Thomas Kelsey, never would have presented the gospel to him in a way that would convert him. His sister, Sarah, did not accept the gospel until they had come in contact with other Latter-day Saints, and the gospel had been preached to her by them. That he was of a religious turn of mind is plainly evident from a poem, which was preserved by his sister, Sarah. It was found among her belongings after she passed away.
_Horace HANSEN ___
_Horace Scott HANSEN _|
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_Alfred M MISNER ____________|
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|--Cherizade MISNER
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| _James William Sr. THAXTON _
|_Cherrizade Bernice THAXTON _|
|_Helen Marion AVERETT ______+
_Wilson Averett SHUMWAY _+
_Blaine Grant SHUMWAY _|
| |_Ruth SMITH _____________+
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|--son SHUMWAY
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|_Jacqueline DALE ______|
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