Wilker Family
We hail from Germany and Switzerland.
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Edmund Richardson
Edmund Richardson was born in Mount Holly, Vermont in 1816. He married Mary Ann Darrow in 1840. They trekked towards Oregon with the intent of helping to establish a Presbyterian colony there. The family had to stop in Salt Lake City, Utah because their best ox died. They joined the
Lucy Witter Geer
Lucy Witter Geer was born in Perry, Ohio to Moses and Sarah Geer. She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with her father when she was eight years old and settled in Illinois with the main body of the Saints. There she married William Kelsey Rice before
William Kelsey Rice
William Kelsey Rice was born in Manchester, New York in 1822. He and his parents moved to Washtenaw County Michigan to homestead. William married Lucy Geer in Nauvoo, Illinois before trekking west to Utah. He helped settle Farmington, Utah and lived most of his life there. He was 91 years
Mary Busenbark
Mary Busenbark was born in upstate New York to a wealthy German Jewish family. However her family gave up everything to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She traveled to Utah in 1847. Thereafter she married Asaph Rice and raised a family. She passed away in Panaca,
Louisa Busenbark
Louisa Busenbark was born in upstate New York to a wealthy German Jewish family. However her family gave up everything to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She traveled to Utah in 1847. She married Asaph Rice and raised a family. She passed away in Panaca, Nevada
Asaph Rice
Asaph Rice was born on 3 January 1817 in Farmington in western New York state. His father moved the family to the wilds of Michigan Territory to homestead a land bounty received for his service in the War of 1812. The Rice family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of