Item Detail
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Pill, Elizabeth Henri
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1783-1855
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MSS 8
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Biography
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Elizabeth Henri (Henry) Pill was born March 14, 1783 in St. Peter's Port, Guernsey Isle, England to Thomas Henry and Rachel LeCheminant. She and her husband, John Pill, heard the gospel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while in England, and nearly their entire family was converted. They began their migration to Utah on April 17, 1855 and sailed from Liverpool, England on the 'Chimborazo' with 431 other saints. They arrived at Philadelphia on May 21, 1855, and the saints continued on to St. Louis, and then to Atchison, Kansas. They crossed the plains with oxen, but Elizabeth, John, and some of their children contracted diseases along the way, and died in June of 1855 before reaching the Salt Lake Valley.
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This is a one-page typescript biography of the lives of John and Elizabeth Henri Pill included in the Margaret Steed Hess collection. It briefly covers John's and Elizabeth's lives and provides little to no details concerning their personal feelings and emotions. There is no information concerning either John's or Elizabeth's earlier life, but at the end of the biography is a list of five known children. Following the one-page typescript are two photocopied pages of the same biography.
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1894-1971