Wilker Family
We hail from Germany and Switzerland.
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Ransom Asa Beecher
Ransom Asa Beecher was born on December 10, 1813 in West Haven, Connecticut. His parents moved to Ohio when he was about a year old and he looked westward the remainder of his life. He married Sylvia Desire Wheeler at Fort Leavenworth, Missouri and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. They left
Richard Drake & Phoebe Lovina Beecher
Richard Drake and Phoebe Lovina Beecher married in July 1864 and they settled in northern Utah and southern Idaho before pulling up stakes and moving to the wild Teton Valley to help settle Victor and Cedron, Idaho. Richard passed away in 1912 after suffering from a stroke eight years earlier.
Sylvia Lovina Drake
Sylvia Lovina Drake was born in Willard, Utah on March 3, 1867. She married Edwin Rice on her 17th birthday and they made their home in Conant and Parker, Utah. Later they moved to the Teton Basin where she operated a hotel and a millinery shop. She passed away in
Jane Clarissa Miller
Jane Clarissa Miller was born on August 1, 1841 or 1842 in Adams, Illinois. The Miller family first moved to Kanesville, Iowa, and then Farmington, Utah. Jane married Oscar North Rice on April 25, 1859, and they settled in what is now Providence, Utah. She died at the age of
Elizabeth Almira Babbitt
Elizabeth Almira Babbitt was born in 1830 at Painesville, Ohio. Her family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and lived near both Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois. She married Leonard G. Rice in 1849 and crossed the plains with her new husband to settle in Farmington, Utah.
Elizabeth Ann Morris
Elizabeth Ann Morris was born in Wales on June 13, 1817, She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales and emigrated to America in 1855. She rode the train to Des Moines, Iowa and then traveled overland to Utah via handcart. She arrived in Salt Lake