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Horace Ephraim Roberts



Birth1 April 1807Smithfield, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Horace Ephraim Roberts, ID: KWJY-9TZ.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 160, no. 3, citing Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846.

    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 150-151, FHL microfilm 183393.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Horace Roberts, folder "Division organization minutes, 1847 November 20 " (#70), image 2, line 17; and entry for Horace Roberts, folder "Roll of company number 1, 1845 " (#1), image 8, line 6.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 86, FHL microfilm 183373.

Death24 December 1868Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Horace Ephraim Roberts, ID: KWJY-9TZ.

BurialDecember 1868Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Horace Ephraim Roberts, ID: KWJY-9TZ.

FatherEphraim Roberts
MotherHulda A Gibbs

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   • Harriet McEvers
Married27 May 1828Morgan County, Illinois, United States
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    County offices, Illinois, Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, database, FamilySearch, entry for Horace Roberts and Harriet Mcevers (27 May 1828); citing Morgan County, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,317,641.

          Children:
               Maria Louisa Roberts
               Homer C. Roberts
               Susan McEvers Roberts
               Jane Cecelia Roberts
               Ephraim Horace Roberts
               Harriet Emily Roberts
               Charles Daniel Roberts
               Morris Geraldus Roberts
               Laura Celestia Roberts


   • Mary Jane Bigelow
Married29 September 1852Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Horace Ephraim Roberts and Mary Jane Bigelow, ID: KWJY-9TZ and ID: LKVB-ST1.

    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 150-151, FHL microfilm 183393.


   • Jane Eliza Graves
Married11 December 1856Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Horace Ephraim Roberts and Eliza Jane Durrant Graves, ID: KWJY-9TZ and ID: KWJ1-FGT.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 86, FHL microfilm 183373.

          Children:
               Emeline Elizabeth Roberts


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• 1840Brown County, Illinois, United States
• 1841Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
• 1860Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

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• 1840 Population CensusBrown County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population Censusthe District No 21, Pottawattamie, IowaExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusProvo, Utah, Utah TerritoryExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

Harry Walton/Garden Grove CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

       Departure17 May 1851
       Arrival24-25 Sept 1851


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