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| Name |
Emma Melissa Oliver |
| Birth |
21 Sep 1867 |
Payson, Utah, Utah, United States  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
16 Sep 1897 |
MANTI |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWZX-VNL |
| Death |
29 Aug 1948 |
Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
| Burial |
31 Aug 1948 |
Show Low Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
| Headstones |
 Submit Headstone Photo |
| Person ID |
I161422 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
William Temple Oliver, b. 27 May 1833, Danville, Vermilion, Illinois, United States d. 25 Jun 1909, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 76 years) |
| Mother |
Nancy Frances Lovern, b. 27 Jun 1839, South Macon Township, Macon, Illinois, United States d. 21 Apr 1925, Eden, Graham, Arizona, United States (Age 85 years) |
| Marriage |
29 Mar 1856 |
Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F41067 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Willard Whipple, b. 16 Mar 1858, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States d. 5 Apr 1941, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
23 Sep 1884 |
Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Joseph Whipple, b. 29 Aug 1885, Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 29 Aug 1885 (Age 0 years) |
| + | 2. Lydia Emma Whipple, b. 16 Feb 1887, Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 26 Oct 1977, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 90 years) |
| + | 3. Willard Whipple, Jr, b. 15 Aug 1888, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 20 Dec 1949, Sacaton, Pinal, Arizona, United States (Age 61 years) |
| + | 4. Harriet Whipple, b. 23 Mar 1890, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 24 Mar 1956, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 66 years) |
| + | 5. Nancy Whipple, b. 3 Jun 1892, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 16 Mar 1971, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 78 years) |
| | 6. Laura Walrade Whipple, b. 31 May 1895, Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 7 Jun 1897, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 2 years) |
| | 7. Oliver Whipple, b. 22 Jan 1898, Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 30 Jan 1898 (Age 0 years) |
| + | 8. Alzada Whipple, b. 5 Apr 1899, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 29 Sep 1986, Winslow, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 87 years) |
| | 9. Anne Julia Whipple, b. 31 Jan 1902, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 11 Dec 1974 (Age 72 years) |
| | 10. Orson Temple Whipple, b. 19 May 1904, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 25 Aug 1964, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 60 years) |
| + | 11. Charles Chester Whipple, b. 16 Oct 1906, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 12 Jul 1995, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 88 years) |
| + | 12. Howard Eugene Whipple, b. 5 Jan 1909, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 5 Sep 1964 (Age 55 years) |
| + | 13. Milton Lloyd Whipple, b. 15 Jun 1911, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 7 Mar 1987, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 75 years) |
| + | 14. Melvin Floyd Whipple, b. 15 Jun 1911, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States d. 28 Jun 1977, Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States (Age 66 years) |
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| Family ID |
F18766 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 21 Sep 1867 - Payson, Utah, Utah, United States |
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 | Marriage - 23 Sep 1884 - Adair, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 16 Sep 1897 - MANTI |
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 | Death - 29 Aug 1948 - Show Low, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
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 | Burial - 31 Aug 1948 - Show Low Cemetery, Navajo, Arizona, United States |
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| Notes |
- BIOGRAPHY OF EMMA MELISSA OLIVER WHIPPLE
Emma Melissa Oliver was born 21 September 1867 in Payson, Ut a h, Utah Territory to William Temple and Nancy Francis Lovern Oliver. S h e was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint s o n 5 July 1883 at the age of fifteen.
Her father came to the Utah Territory in 1850 with the Jam e s Pace Company. His parents Harrison, age 50, and Hannah Martin Olive r , age 38 came with their family of five children. William Temple was 1 7 ; Edward McClelland was 24; Lamira Jane was 13; Orra was 12; and Emil y Fr ances was 7.
They departed on 11 June 1850 with 255 individuals and 100 w a gons in the company which began its journey from the outfitting post a t K anesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). They made it to Chimne y Ro ck by 25 July 1850.
On 24 August they camped at Devil’s Gate and crossed the Swe e twater the next day. They camped opposite Fort Bridger on 12 September . Very interesting was the fact that they traveled alongside a train wh il e they went through Echo Canyon. They made it into the Salt Lake vall e y 20 to 23 September 1850.
Her mother came to Utah with an Unknown Company in 1852. H e r father was 36;her mother was 36; Benjamin Ellsworth was 14; Nancy Fra nc is was 12; John Norris was 9; Wesley Norton was 4; Lucinda Adalade wa s 2 ; and Josiah was an infant.
Her parents were married on 29 March 1856 on Ogden, Weber, U t ah Territory. Her father was 22 and her mother was 16. They receive d th eir endowment o 11 September 1857 in the Endowment House in Salt Lak e Cit y, Salt Lake, Utah Territory. Emma Melissa was the eighth child bo rn t o a family of fourteen, ten girls and four boys.
Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Birch Creek,n e ar Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah. Here she spent her childhood days un ti l she was about thirteen when her parents decided to move to Arizona.
They left Utah 27 October 1880. Grandfather's purpose ingoi n g to Arizona was to see if the climate might help his asthma with whic h h e was badly afflicted. They drove with them about 300 head of cattl e whic h made the trip much slower. They traveled the southern route by K anab, U tah and over the Buckskin Mountains, now known as the Kiabab Fore st, thro ugh the House Rock Valley and on to Lee's Ferry.
They first lived in Brigham City on the Little Colorado Rive r , arriving there on 16 January 1881. They stayed there a month and the n m oved to Holbrook. A railroad was being built in Holbrook so they wer e ab le to find a job and stayed there until June. In June they moved so uth s ixty miles to a little town where Fools Hollow is now.
She met Willard at a dance. She was acquainted with his you n ger brother,Brig. She had a silk handkerchief of his. The night of t h e dance, she walked into the room and seeing a young man standing wit h hi s back to her, thinking it was Brig Whipple, she walked up behind hi m an d rolled up the handkerchief and hit him in the back and said,"Brig , woul d you like to have your handkerchief?" As he turned around she dis covere d that she had thrown the handkerchief to the wrong man. Thus bega n thei r acquaintance and friendship that developed into love and marriag e.
Their first date was a dance held at the Scott ranch abo u t seven miles up the river. It was Christmas and cold and muddy. Thre e ot her couples accompanied them to the dance. They went in a double be d wago n with four spring seats on it. The wagon was drawn by four horses . The y courted for about two years before they were married.
Emma wore a dress of navy blue brocade, designed with a tig h t basque with puckers up the front. The full skirt was also puckered u p t he front panel. Willard's sister, Ernaline, was married the same nigh t t o Moroni Adair. Both of their mothers were present and Mary Adams , a sist er of Moroni. As wedding presents, Willard and Emma received fro m his mot her a hen and eight chickens, and from her mother a pillow.
Emma Melissa married Willard Whipple on 23 September 188 4 i n Adair, Navajo, Arizona Territory at the age of 17. Willard was bor n 1 6 March 1858 in Provo, Utah, Utah Territory to Edson and Harriet Yeag er W hipple. He was baptized into the Church on 7 August 1884 at the ag e of 2 6. He was 26 years old when they married.
His father came with the Brigham Young Company in 1847. H e t hen returned and brought his family out with the Wilford Woodruff Com pany . He was 45 years old, his wife, Mary Ann was 26, and they had on e daugh ter, Mary age 1. They departed 16 June 1850 with 172 individual s and 4 4 wagons in the company which began its journey from the outfitti ng pos t at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).
In early 1850, Church leaders advised emigrants that pione e r companies would travel on anew route on the south side of the Platt e Ri ver. By taking this new route they avoided some river crossings on t he no rth side that had proved dangerous because of high water in the pre viou s year. They also expected to receive additional military protectio n o n a new army supply road. This was a factor in their decision becaus e the y wanted to avoid conflict with the Plains Indians,who had been agi tate d during the 1849 California gold rush. The 200-mile long army roa d conne cted "Old Fort Kearny," located 50 miles below Kanesville on th e Missour i River, to "New Fort Kearny" following the south side of the P latte Rive r to the west.
The following is from the summary of the Company: “The compa n y was somewhat spread out with the 1st and 2nd Fifties led by Leonard H ar dy and Edson Whipple. Elder Woodruff, traveling with the 1st Fifty, cr oss ed Salt Creek on June 28. After leaving Salt Creek they turned wes t o n a cutoff trail (near present-day Swedesburg, Nebraska). All of th e comp anies except Andrus used this cutoff(which passed near present-da y Davi d City and Bellwood, Nebraska). This cutoff trail, which bypasse d the Cot tonwood/Wahoo Creek drainage, saved them 12 miles.On this short cut route , they reached the Platte about 20 miles west of the regular ro ute take n earlier by Andrus. During this early leg of the journey, a num ber of pe ople died from cholera. The two divisions reunited on July 7 o n the Plat te.
They followed the south bank of the Platte River a hundred m i les west past Grand Island, where they joined with the Oregon Trail com in g north from Missouri. At this juncture they continued 15 more miles t o " New Fort Kearny", which they reached on July 15,although army reserve d gr azing rights and companies weren't permitted to camp within a mile o f th e fort. On this day they were visited by a tremendous thunderstorm , and l ightning killed three oxen and one member of the company.They con tinued u p the south side and miraculously escaped any serious accident o r wagon b reakage during an exciting wagon stampede on July 30. The nex t daythey re ached the Upper Crossing of the South Platte (located abou t three miles w est of present-day Brule, Nebraska).
From Ash Hollow they traveled up the Platte River, arrivin g a t Fort Laramie on August 18. Leaving there, they skirted the Black Hi ll s by taking the river road. They were delayed some days looking for lo s t cattle but reached the Upper Crossing (at present-day Casper,Wyoming ) o n September 3. Along much of the road west from Fort Laramie until th ey r eached the Sweetwater, they found little grass, which caused their c attl e to wander and slowed their pace.
They reached Devil's Gate on September 8. On September 14 th e y bypassed the established road over the Rocky Ridges by veering to th e n orth through a draw. This variant road, scouted out by J.A. Stratto n an d three other men who were sent out by Brigham Young to locate bette r rou tes and help guide the companies to the Salt Lake Valley, it report edly h ad an abundance of feed and water. Unfortunately, Elder Woodruff f ound n o feed or water and said that companies should not take that road.
They rejoined the established road just east of Rock Creek . O ne day west of South Pass they met with a war party of 500 Snake Indi ans , but were able to avoid conflict. They crossed the Green River on Se ptem ber 23 and reached Fort Bridger on September 27. Some in the 1st Fif ty be gan murmuring, Elder Woodruff advised that division to move on ahea d of t hem to the valley. Woodruff's Fifty found the road very rough betw een Bi g and Little Mountain but reached Salt Lake on October 14. Death s in th e company numbered at least 17, many from cholera.”
His family settled in Provo, Utah, Utah Territory. Willard w a s the fifth child o eleven, five girls and six boys, born to Edson an d Ha rriet Yeager Whipple. Edson had six wives. Harriet and Mary Ann we re si sters and were married to him on the same day on 4 November 1850 i n Sal t Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory.
Willard went to school at the Brigham Young Academy for a wh i le with Karl G. Maeser as a teacher. In 1880 he left and when to Provo . He found that his parents had sold their home and gone to Arizona. H e worked for a while in Provo and then went to Arizona in March of 18 82.
Emma and Willard first lived in a two room lumber home tha t h e had built during the summer. They bought a new stove, a bedstead a nd s ix chairs, a wash tub, cooking utensils and dishes, and a small supp ly o f provisions, and paid cash for all of it. They lived there for abo u t a year and a half. Emma and Willard had fourteen children, six girl s a nd eight boys. Joseph was born 29 August 1885 and died the same day. Lyd ia Emma was born 16 February 1887; Willard Jr. was born 15 August 18 88; H arriet was born 23 March 1890; Nancy was born 3 June 1892 in Show L ow,Nav ajo, Arizona Territory; Laura Walrade was born 31 May 1895 in Adai r, Nava jo,Arizona and died on pneumonia on 7 June 1897; Oliver was bor n 22 Janua ry 1898 in Adair and died on 30 January 1898. The rest of th e children we re born in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona Territory.
Alzada was born 5 April 1899; Anne Julia was born 31 Janua r y 1902; Orson Temple was born 19 May 1904; Charles Chester was born 1 6 Oc tober 1906; Howard Eugene was born 5 January 1909; and twins Milto n Lloy d and Melvin Floyd were born 15 June 1911.
Willard and Emma decided in 1897 that they wanted to go to U t ah and be sealed in the Temple. Accordingly, on the 4 Aug 1897 they le f t home in a double bed wagon. The wagon had a good canvas cover and a c hu ck box on the back that had a lid to make a table to use in preparin g mea ls. They had a four horse team pull the wagon. Lydia says,"The foo d taste d so good on the trip. Father did most of the cooking over the fi re, an d food has never in my life tasted so good as that. There were bak ing pow der biscuits, and dutch oven potatoes seasoned with home grown po rk and o nions, good gravy that was super. We bought butter and cheese an d fruit a long the way from the farms we passed.
She did not have water in the home until the last few year s o f her married life. She used a wash board most of her life to do th e was hing. It was only later in years that she had a power washer. Whe n th e twins were born she became very ill and her life hung in the balan ce fo r days until a doctor was sent for. Women of the town took care o f her u ntil she gradually got well. She worked as a midwife and a nurs e for th e surrounding area.
In 1932 Willard built a new five room house just south of t h e old house. They fixed a pump and piped water into the house and had h o t water and a kitchen sink and a bathroom for the first time in their l iv es. Soon electricity was brought in also. She was lovingly called Au nt Em . On 23 September 1934 they celebrated their golden wedding annive rsary. It was the first time that all of Emma’s family had been togethe r for m ore than fifty years.
Willard passed away on 5 April 1941 in Show Low, Navajo, Ari z ona at the age of 83 and was buried on 7 April 1941 in Show Low.
Emma died on 29 August 1948 in Show Low, Navajo, Arizona a t t he age of 80. She was buried 31 August 1948 in Show Low by Willard.
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