Wilker Family
We hail from Germany and Switzerland.
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Oscar North Rice
Oscar North Rice was born on October 19, 1835, in Washtenaw County, Michigan. In 1842 his family his family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. Later in Utah, Oscar served as a scout in the Lemhi Valley Indian troubles. He married Jane Miller and Margaret Matthews and they lived in Providence, Utah.
Leonard Gurley Rice
Leonard’s family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan. Shortly thereafter the Rice family moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. After being driven from Nauvoo by mobs, the Rice family trekked west to Utah. Leonard helped lead other pioneer companies across the plains. Later he was involved in
Ann Victoria Rose
Ann was born in Steuban County, New York to Abraham and Catherine Nicholson Rose. Her family had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and west to Ohio and Illinois to be closer to the main body of the Church. Her family crossed the plains with other pioneers
Margaret Buckwalter
Margaret Buckwalter was born in 1828 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She and her family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and they moved to Illinois to be with the main body of the Church. There she married Lemon Wickel, who died three years later in 1850. After
Murder at Corner Ranch
On February 12, 1917, just seven miles north of the Corner Ranch in the southwest part of New Mexico, Andy Peterson, Burton Jensen, and Hugh Acord were kidnapped and murdered while gathering cattle near the Corner Ranch south of Hachita in the boot hill of NM.
Mary Ann Darrow
Mary Ann Darrow was born in Hebron, New York in 1818. She was a weaver by trade. She married Edmund Richardson and moved to Indiana where they made plans to establish a Presbyterian colony in Oregon. While crossing the plains on the Oregon Trail, their ox died and they were