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Byhttps://youtu.be/AVDY570zS-k Larry Gibson, the 2022 National President of the Sons of Utah Pioneers introduces SUP to RootsTech participants, and others who share our love for preserving our pioneer heritage and values. After watching his introduction, we invite you to also watch the presentation below. https://youtu.be/fDqwsFkbUpI Kyle Anderson, a Chapter President explains how the spokes to the “Wagon Wheel” introduce users to the Sons of Utah Pioneers resources. Here are the links to the spokes that Kyle discusses: Pioneer Monuments Overland Trails Pioneer Stories World-Wide Pioneer Chapter Pioneer Magazine
We invite anybody interested in remembering and honoring our shared pioneer past to visit and explore our site.
This site’s stories, essays, histories, and pioneer sites are all open to the public.
Our Mission:
- Come to know our fathers, and turn our hearts to them.
- Preserve the memory and heritage of the early pioneers of the Utah Territory and the western U.S.
- Honor present-day pioneers worldwide who exemplify these same qualities of character.
- Teach these same qualities to the youth who will be tomorrow’s pioneers.
Pioneer Stories
MELLOR Jr., James: Inspirational Story
At the age of eight, with his entire family (father, James Mellor Sr.(37), mother, Mary Ann Payne (36); sister, Louise (15); sister, Elizabeth (14); sister, Mary Ann (10); brother, William…
JACKSON, Elizabeth Horrocks: Handcart Pioneer of 1856
Elizabeth Horrocks was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England on August 5, 1826. She is the daughter of Edward Horrocks and Alice Houghton. Elizabeth was the oldest of 11 children, and…
NIELSEN, Ane: A Self Sufficient Pioneer
Ane Kirstine Nielsen (1844-1928) Ane Kirsten Nielsen was the second child of Christian Sorensen Nielsen and Karen or Caroline Eskildsen. She had a sister, Maren, who…
HAMBLIN, Jacob: Peacemaker
Jacob Hamblin was born 6 April 1819 in Ashtabula County, Ohio. His parents were farmers, and he learned to farm as a youth. In 1836 his family moved to Wisconsin…
ANDERSON, Editha Morgan
Frontier Teacher Single women are overlooked in most L.D.S. history where the typical narrative is family centric, features male leaders, and dwells on the exceptional. There is ample pathos, nonetheless,…
BEESLEY, Ebenezer
This article originally appeared in Vol.50, No.1 (2003) of Pioneer Magazine. by Janet Peterson Ebenezer Beesley was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, on December 14, 1840, the fourth child of…
