Utah Pioneer Ancestors

All eight of my Grandma Fike’s great grandparents and two of her 2nd great grandparents crossed the plains to Salt Lake valley on the Mormon Trail in covered wagons. Four of my Papa’s (Daniel M. Lowe) great grandparents and one set of his grandparents also crossed the plains to settle in the Ogden, Utah area. .

They were all first generation converts to Mormonism following the church’s instruction to gather together to their new mountain home. The Cannons, Andrews, Croxalls, Hoggs, and McLeans were first generation Americans who crossed the Atlantic from England and Scotland after their conversion to Mormonism in Europe. William Lowe was also an English immigrant who came to the St. Louis area early enough to serve in the Union army during the US Civil War. The Hoaglands, Daniel Wells, Emmeline Woodward, and Nannie Farley Lowe descended from colonial immigrants who arrived in the New World as early as 1610 in Jamestown and 1620 on the Mayflower.

This is the chronology of their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley

1847George Q. Cannon, Abraham, Margaret, and Elizabeth Hoagland in the 2nd pioneer company
1848Daniel H. Wells as aid-de-camp to Brigham Young on Young’s second crossing
1848Emmeline B. Woodward
1854Frederick and Elizabeth Andrew
1855Charles and Ann Hogg
1861Daniel and Elizabeth McLean
1861Jonah and Eliza Croxall
1865William and Nannie Lowe

This next section will briefly introduce you to our Utah pioneer ancestors in the order in which they arrived in the Salt Lake valley. Later sections will offer more detailed biographies and images.

George Quayle Cannon

Abraham, Margaret, and Elizabeth Hoagland

Daniel Hamner Wells

Emmeline Blanche Woodward

Frederick Chadwick Andrew

Elizabeth Whitaker

Charles and Anne Stanger Hogg

Daniel and Elizabeth Smith McLean

Jonah and Eliza Orgill Croxall

William and Nannie Farley Lowe