Wilker Family
We hail from Germany and Switzerland.
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Arvin Mitchell Stoddard & Caroline Sargent
Arvin Mitchell Stoddard was born at Bastard, Ludy County, Upper Canada in 1852. His wife, Caroline Sargent, was born in Jackson County, Missouri in 1834. They both joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and met in Provo, Utah after their families migrated west. They lived for a

Martha Jane Stoddard
Janie Stoddard was born April 29, 1852 in Provo Utah to Arvin and Caroline Stoddard. She met Leonard Babbitt Rice at a dance in Farmington and they were married in December 1871. After several years in Utah, the couple moved to southeastern Idaho. Then they moved to southern Alberta, Canada

Frost Hawthorne Clinkscales
Frost Hawthorne Clinkscales, Sr. was born in Tishimingo County, Mississippi on October 9, 1886. His family moved to south central Texas to try cotton farming. They had minimal success. Frost eventually moved to southern Idaho, doing whatever jobs they could to get through life and the Great Depression.

Lucy Jane Stevens
Lucy Jane Stevens was born in Portsmouth, England, on January 1, 1848. Her father and brothers were shipwrights in England. At the age of seventeen, she ran away from home and traveled to Utah by handcart. A year later Lucy married Leonard Rice. She raised a family of seven children,

Margaret Mathews
Margaret Mathews was born in Swansea, Wales on June 11, 1849. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Utah via the Edward Bunker Handcart Company. They settled in Providence, Utah. She married Oscar Rice in 1869 and passed away in 1926.

Olive Emily Smith
Olive Emily Smith was born in Lee County, Iowa on December 12, 1845. Her parents were Utah pioneers who settled in Farmington, Utah. She married Hyrum Rice in December 1865, and they lived in Cache County, Utah before homesteading near Round Mountain in Cassia County, Idaho. In 1886 she fell