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Residents of the Settlement of Little Pigeon, Pottawattamie County

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Other members of the family are listed but may not have been in Little Pigeon. Some had died before that time and some of the children had married and were living with their own families elsewhere.

A handful of Little Pigeon saints signed the Kanesville Tabernacle Post Office Petition. Their names were (1):

William Pulsipher
Parley P. Sirrine (age 4 and son of Mephiboshet)
Theodore Sirrine (age 9 and son of Mephiboshet)
John Smith
Richard D. Smith (age 18 and serving in the Mormon Battalion)
William Smith Sr. and his son William Smith Jr.
Azariah Tuttle and his son Alexander L. Tuttle (age 8)
Hascall Waterbury (age 13)

The Pottawattamie County Marriage Records list as residents of Little Pigeon (2):

William A. Park and Matilda Wilson were married April 22, 1849

William Head (from Big Pigeon) and Mary McClellen were married January 17, 1850

Stephen Wight and Lucy E. Waterbury were married January 29, 1850.

Two addition marriages were listed in the Frontier Guardian newspaper. "James Clemons (Clements) and Miss Sarah Wilson, both of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, [were married] 8 January 1852, at Little Pigeon Branch, by Thomas C. D. Howell. (Frontier Guardian, 23 January 1852)" (3)

"John Barnes and Miss Elenor Wilson, both of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, [were married] 18 March 1852, at Little Pigeon Branch, by Thomas C. D. Howell. (Frontier Guardian, 25 March 1852)" (4).

The High Council Minutes adds William Howell as a resident (5).

Records of the Little Pigeon Branch taken on June 1, 1851 (6). The Little Pigeon Branch was organized, and officers elect in consequence of the removal of the former officers to Salt Lake City. A meeting was held at the house of Stephen Wight when these persons were received into the branch by letter and vote of the branch.

Caroline Anderson
Martha Anderson (Martha Helen Anderson)

John Mollineux Barnes (Pottawattamie County Marriages)
Eleanor Wilson

Thomas Barnes
Lydia Barnes (Lydia Swindells) (wife)


Judith Hibbert (wife) (died 1848) Mary Barnes (daughter of Judith Hibbert)

John B. Burrell (John Battish Burrell)
Mary Burrell (Mary Ann Pulsipher) (wife)
John Moroni Burrell

Alex Clark (Gale Alexander Clark)
Hannah Clark (Hannah Compton) (wife)

Henry Devenish
Eliza Devenish (Eliza Horne) (wife)
Elizabeth A. Devenish (Elizabeth Maria Devenish)
Martha Jane Devenish

Henry Eggleston
Emeline Eggleston (Emeline Tilton Stewart) (wife)
Albert Eggleston (Albert Sidney Eggleston) (son of Lydia Robbins Broomly)
Mary Emeline Eggleston

Solomon Freeman
Hannah Freeman (Hannah Sheldon) (wife)

John Goodman (John Richardson Goodman)
Sarah Goodman (Sarah Lee) (wife)

Mathew Hall (Matthew Hall)
Elizabeth Hall (Elizabeth A. Boustead) (wife)


Mary Jane Hall

William Henry Head (from Big Pigeon) (Pottawattamie County Marriage Records)
Mary Jane McClellan

Thomas C. D. Howell (Thomas Charles Davis Howell)
Sarah Howell (Sarah Stewart) (wife)
Jason Howell (Jason Elihu Howell)
Henry Howell (Henry Nelson Howell)
William J. Howell (William Jasper Howell)

William Howell
Hannah Howell (Hannah Rees) (wife)

William H. Ivins (William Hastings Ivins)
Emma Ivins (Emma Ivens) (wife)

Robert Kirkwood
Mary Kirkwood (Mary Muir) (wife)

Thomas Lee, Sr.
Mary Lee (Mary Burbidge) (wife)
Mary Lee
Thomas Lee, Jr.
George Lee
Henry Lee

Elizabeth Moss

Thomas Muir
Isabel Muir (Isabel Samson) (wife)
John Muir (John Samson Muir)

William A. Park (William Asbury Park) (Pottawattamie County Marriage Records)
Matilda Wilson (Matilda Catherine Wilson)

Elias Pulsipher (died 1851)
Polly Pulsipher (Polly Chubbuck) (wife)
Orson Pulsipher (Orson Hyde Pulsipher)
Abigail E. Pulsipher (Abigail Emma Pulsipher)
Harriet Pulsipher (Harriet Elizabeth Pulsipher)
William Pulsipher

Mephibosheth A. Sirrine (died 1848)
Mariah Sirrine (died 1844) (wife)
Helen M. Sirrine
Parley P. Sirrine (Parley Pratt Sirrine)
Theodore Curtis Sirrine (listed on Kanesville Tabernacle Post Office Petition)

William Smith (died 1849)
Mary Smith (Mary Pears) (wife)
Richard Smith (Richard Pears Smith)
William Smith (William Pears Smith)
John Smith (John Pears Smith)

Henry A. Terry (Henry Algernon Terry)
Rachel T. Terry (Rachel Lattha Gillett) (wife)

John Toone
Mary E. Toone (Emma Elizabeth Prosser) (wife)
Henry Toone (William Henry Toone)
Emma Toone (Mary Elizabeth Toone)
Charles Toone

Azariah Tuttle (Azariah Mills Tuttle)
Ann Tuttle (Ann Mabbot) (wife)
Alexander Tuttle (Alexander Leonard Tuttle)
Elizabeth Tuttle (Elizabeth Ann Tuttle)
(blank) Tuttle (Abigail Tuttle)
Mary Ann Tuttle

John Tuttle (John Henry Tuttle)
Sabra Tuttle (Sabra Ann Voorhees) (wife)

Hascall Waterbury (Haskell Waterbury)

Stephen Wight
Lucy E. Wight (Lucy Evaline Waterbury) (wife)
Rachel Jane Wight

Austin Wilder (died 1834)
Sally M. Wilder (Sally Maria Barber) (wife)
Hannah A. Wilder Hannah Austin Wilder)

Elijah Wilson, Sr.
Martha Wilson (Martha Kelley) (wife)
Eleanor Wilson
Sarah Wilson (Sarah Ann Wilson)
Malvina Wilson
Sylvester Wilson
Elijah Wilson, Jr.
Martha Ann Wilson
Mary Jane Wilson
Jeanette Wilson
Harriet Wilson

Clerk records have added other members as they moved into the branch.

William Bench, Sr.
Ann Bench (Mary Ann Boneham) (wife)
John L. Bench
William Bench, Jr.

Richard Britton
Elizabeth Britton (Elizabeth Lee) (wife)
Mary Ann Britton
Sarah A. Britton

James Braden
Rachel Totton (died 1836) (wife)

John Doty (died 1850)
Ellen Jane Doty (Eleanor Jane Braden) (wife)
Sarah Jane Doty
John Doty

Esther Core

Charles Dixon (died 1854)
Elizabeth Ann Humphrey (wife)

Henry W. McCarthy

John McKechnie (died 1848)
Jane McKechnie (Jane Tinto Bee) (wife)
Georgina McKechnie
Jane McKechnie
John James McKechnie

Joseph McKinley
Rachel A. McKinley (Rachel Alvira Tuttle) (wife)
Alma McKinley (died 1851)

Robert Yates
Mary Ann Yates (wife)

The following officers were unanimously chosen on June 1, 1851. Thomas C. D. Howell for President, Henry Eggleston as First Counselor and John Toone as Second Counselor. Stephen Wight was chosen as Bishop with Thomas Lee as First Counselor and John B. Burrell as Second Counselor. Henry A. Terry was the Clerk and William H. Ivins and Matthew Hall as Teachers.

At a meeting held on May 9, 1852, Elijah Wilson was chosen Captain of the 1st ten and Henry Devenish, Captain of the 2nd ten in preparation for emigration.

Bibliography

  1. Maurine Carr Ward and Fred E. Woods, "The ‘Tabernacle Post Office' Petition for the Saints of Kanesville, Iowa," Mormon Historical Studies, Spring 2004, pp. 156-193.
  2. Pottawattamie County Marriage Records," Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society, 2000.
  3. Cook, Death and Marriage Notices, 38; Myrtle Hyde, Conditions, 100.
  4. Orson Hyde, The Frontier Guardian, 27 June 1849, quoted in Myrtle Hyde, Conditions, 19-20.
  5. Pottawattamie High Council minutes, 1846-1852; 1850 December-1851 March; Church History Library, https://catalog.lds.org/assets?id=dff41a9e-b768-40b7-bde1-98b2c19f8c90&crate=0&index=7 (accessed: June 11, 2019)
  6. Little Pigeon Branch (Iowa). Little Pigeon Branch report, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/c3d3c1de-d7af-4472-a4ce-63bb331e29ef/0/0 (accessed: October 11, 2021)