Parley Parker Pratt

M, #1, b. 12 April 1807, d. 13 May 1857

 
 

Father*Jared Pratt1 b. 25 Nov 1769, d. 5 Nov 1839
Mother*Charity Dickinson1 b. 24 Feb 1776, d. 20 May 1849
Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Samuel Dickinson|b. c 1753\nd. bt 1810 - 1814|p6.htm#i164|Huldah Griffith|b. 26 Dec 1755\nd. c 1783|p6.htm#i163|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree
Parley P. Pratt Pedigree

Birth*12 April 1807 Burlington, Otsego, NY2,1,3 
Marriage*9 September 1827 Baptist Church, Canaan, Columbia, NY, by Elder Palmer., Bride=Thankful Halsey4,3 
Marriage*9 May 1837 Kirtland, Geauga, OH, Principal=Mary Ann Frost5,3 
Marriage*24 July 1843 Principal=Elizabeth Brotherton5,3 
Marriage*9 September 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, Principal=Mary Wood5,3 
Marriage*2 November 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, Principal=Hannahette Snively5,3 
Marriage*20 November 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, Principal=Belinda Marden5,3 
Marriage*15 October 1845 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, Principal=Sarah Huston6,3 
Marriage*8 February 1846 Principal=Phoebe Sopher6,3 
Marriage*28 April 1847 Winter Quarters, Nebraska, Principal=Ann Agatha Walker7 
Marriage*28 April 1847 Winter Quarters, Douglas, NE, Principal=Martha Monks6,3 
Marriage*27 December 1853 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Principal=Keziah Downes8,3 
Marriage*14 November 1855 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Principal=Eleanor J. McComb8,3 
Death*13 May 1857 Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, He was murdered by Hector McLean9,3
Burial*14 May 1857 Fine Springs, Crawford, Arkansas, Gravesite online. 
Ordination*September 1830 an Elder3 
Ordination6 June 1831 Kirtland, Geauga, OH, a High Priest by Joseph Smith3 
Ordination21 February 1835 an Apostle3 
Emigration*24 September 1847 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, with the Daniel Spencer/Peregrine Sessions Company, leaving 18 Jun 1847 from Elkhorn River, Nebraska., Witness=Alma Pratt, Witness=Ann Agatha Walker, Witness=Belinda Marden, Witness=Elizabeth Brotherton, Witness=Hannahette Snively, Witness=Helaman Pratt, Witness=Julia Huston Pratt, Witness=Martha Monks, Witness=Mary Wood, Witness=Nephi Pratt, Witness=Parley Parker Pratt Jr., Witness=Phoebe Sopher, Witness=Sarah Huston10 
Census*1850 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA, Witness=Elizabeth Brotherton11
Note* The large number of wives is due to the fact that in those days the Mormons practiced polygamy. These are largely simultaneous wives and he had children by most of them. 
HTML* 
my pages on Parley, and his autobiography.
 

Family 1

Thankful Halsey b. 18 Mar 1797, d. 25 Mar 1837
Child

Family 2

Mary Ann Frost b. 14 Jan 1808, d. 24 Aug 1891
Children

Family 3

Hannahette Snively b. 27 Oct 1812, d. 21 Feb 1898
Children

Family 4

Belinda Marden b. 24 Dec 1820, d. 19 Feb 1894
Children

Family 5

Mary Wood b. 18 Jun 1818, d. 5 Mar 1898
Children

Family 6

Sarah Huston b. 3 Aug 1822, d. 26 May 1886
Children

Family 7

Ann Agatha Walker b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Children

Family 8

Martha Monks b. 28 Apr 1825
Child

Family 9

Phoebe Sopher b. 8 Jul 1823, d. 17 Sep 1887
Children

Last Edited7 Sep 2004

Citations

  1. [S49] Archibald F. Bennett, Finding Your Forefathers in America, p. 209.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 28.
  3. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  4. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 30.
  5. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 462.
  6. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 463.
  7. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  8. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  9. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt.
  10. [S262] Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, online "http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompany/0,15797,4017-1-213,00.html."
  11. [S100] 1850 US Federal Census (online images) Roll M432_919 image 286 p. 141.
  12. [S79] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Temple Record; FHL #1761081.

Joseph Henry Dean

M, #2, b. 16 October 1855, d. 2 November 1947

 
 

Father*Joseph Dean1,2,3 b. 3 Aug 1831, d. 30 Jun 1895
Mother*Catherine Knott1 b. 16 May 1824, d. 29 May 1897
Joseph Henry Dean|b. 16 Oct 1855\nd. 2 Nov 1947|p1.htm#i2|Joseph Dean|b. 3 Aug 1831\nd. 30 Jun 1895|p45.htm#i1338|Catherine Knott|b. 16 May 1824\nd. 29 May 1897|p45.htm#i1339|Barnard Dean|b. 16 Aug 1794\nd. 3 Nov 1856|p46.htm#i1363|Joanna Elliott|b. 16 Sep 1795\nd. 15 Jan 1873|p46.htm#i1364|William Knott|b. 11 Aug 1796\nd. 8 Aug 1879|p46.htm#i1358|Mary J. Withers|b. 14 Jun 1797\nd. 26 Jun 1872|p46.htm#i1359|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree

Birth*16 October 1855 Taunton, Somerset, England1,3 
Christening24 September 1857 Taunton, Somerset, England4 
Rebaptism4 December 1875 1 
Marriage*11 October 1876 the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Principal=Sarah Allen Arnold5,3 
Marriage*11 June 1885 the Logan Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, Principal=Florence Ridges1,3 
Marriage*11 June 1898 Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, This marriage was performed by Antony W. Ivins in Mexico. See Quinn:

Aside from the 1892 letter to Teasdale, there are three presently available copies of George Q. Cannon's polygamy authorization letters to Anthony W. Ivins. Two of them, dated 27 December1897 and 1 February 1898, do not identify the bearer and are as seemingly innocuous as the 1892 letter. The First Presidency letterbooks contain copies of similar letters asking Ivins to provide services to specific visitors (some of whom were non-Mormons). But the diary of Joseph H. Dean, former president of the Samoan Mission, recorded how George Q. Cannon authorized and assisted him to marry his plural wife after the Manifesto. Dean began courting his prospective plural wife in October 1897, explored the possibility with Cannon a few days later, and obtained Cannon's specific approval on 3 December. After a brief consultation with Joseph F. Smith, the second counselor in the First Presidency, Dean met again [80] with Counselor Cannon on 23 April: "He approves of my going to Mexico, and thinks it would be a good thing for me to do. Consents to my taking Sister A. mafaaipoipo [Samoan translation: for a bride]. Says that when ever we are ready to call upon him and he will give us the necessary documents." On 3 May 1898, Dean obtained the following letter addressed to Anthony W. Ivins: "This will introduce you to Elder Jos. H. Dean and Sister Amanda W. Anderson who wish to look your country over with a view to settlement. Any favor you can show them will be appreciated by Your Brother Geo. Q. Cannon." The next day, Dean got an additional note from Cannon and bought round-trip tickets to Mexico. On 10 May 1898, Dean and his intended wife arrived in Colonia Juarez and showed their letter to Ivins who immediately performed the marriage and sealing for them.(281)

That this couple was married was kept secret because it was a post-manifesto marriage. Before he died, Joseph H. Dean told my grandfather, Charles E. Dean, that "Sister Petterson is my wife" and charged him to see she was not in need of anything. I am unaware of any issue from this couple. - GEB

, Principal=Amanda Wilhelmina Petterson2,6 
Death*2 November 1947 Uintah Basin Hospital, Vernal, Uinta, Utah, Cause: Myocardial degeneration.1,7
Burial*7 November 1947 City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1
Occupation* a carpenter and musician1 
(Witness) Census24 June 1870 Morgan City, Morgan, Utah, Dean, James, 39, WM, Carpenter, $1200, $1000, b. England, literate
Catherine, 46, WF, Keeping House, b. England, literate
Henry, 15, WM, at home, b. Utah
William, 6, WM, b. Utah
Mary E., 4, WF, b. Utah
Next door:
Dean, Amelia, 42, WF, Keeping House, b. England, literate
All children surnamed Dean.
Rhoda, 17 WF, At home, b. England
Eliza, 15 WF, b. Utah
Martha, 14, WF, b. Utah
William, 9, WM, b. Pennsylvania
Emily, 3, WF, b. Utah
Catherine, 1, WF, b. Utah

, Principal=Joseph Dean, Principal=Catherine Knott8
Ordination*12 August 1872 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, an Elder4 
Ordination1876 a seventy by Burr Frost4 
Residence*1884 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, alderman9 
Residence1890 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, a stonecutter10 
Census14 June 1900 Mancos, Montezuma, Colorado, Dean, Joseph H., head, b. Oct 1855, 44, WM, b. England, parents b. England, Merchant.
Sarah A., wife, b. Dec 1854, 45, WF, b. Utah, parents b. England
Henry R., son, b. Apr 1879, 26, WM, b. Sandwich Islands, Merchant
Lillian E., dau, b. Nov 1882, 17, WF, b. Utah
Harry A., son, b. ? 1892, 7, WM, b. Utah
Frank L., son, b. Apr 1894, 6, WM, b. Utah
Clifford, son, b. May 1898, 2, b. Utah
[Note: many of the birthdates here are wrong. -GEB]

, Witness=Sarah Allen Arnold, Witness=Henry Royal Dean, Witness=Lillian Emma Dean, Witness=Harry Arnold Dean, Witness=Franklin Leslie Dean, Witness=Clifford Arnold Dean11
Residence1904 Kirtland, San Juan, NM12
Census*3 May 1910 Kline, La Plata, CO, Joseph H. Dean, 54, Farmer
Sarah A. ,55, wife #1
Florence R. , 43, wife #2
Harry A., 17, son of #1
Clifford, 11, son of #1
Wilford M., 20, son of #2
Lawrence J., 18, son of #2
Charles E., 16, son of #2
Florence S., 13, dau of #2
Winifred L., 11, dau of #2
Stanley R., 9, son of #2
Leah R., 6, dau of #2
Dorothy, 2, dau of #2
Donald, 3 mo., son of #2, Witness=Sarah Allen Arnold, Witness=Florence Ridges, Witness=Harry Arnold Dean, Witness=Clifford Arnold Dean, Witness=Wilford Moroni Dean, Witness=Lawrence Joseph Dean, Witness=Charles Edwin Dean, Witness=Florence Stella Dean, Witness=Winifred Louise Dean, Witness=Stanley Ridges Dean, Witness=Leah Ridges Dean, Witness=Dorothy Ridges Dean, Witness=Donald Ridges Dean13
Census*17 January 1920 Shelley, Bingham, ID, Dean, Joseph H., Head, WM 64, b. England, parents b. England, night watchman at the sugar factory.
Florence, wife, WF 53, b. Utah, parents b. England, nurse with private family.
Stanley, son, WM 18, b. Colo.
Lea, dau, WF 16, b. N Mex.
Dorothy, dau, WF, 12, b. Colo.
Donald, so, WM, 9, b. Colo., Principal=Florence Ridges, Witness=Stanley Ridges Dean, Witness=Leah Ridges Dean, Witness=Dorothy Ridges Dean, Witness=Donald Ridges Dean14
Census11 April 1930 5th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Joseph Dean, Head, $7750, WM 76, b. England, parents b. England, Policeman on the City Police Force.
Myrtle, dau, WF 31, b. Wyo., parents b. England, dispatcher, railroad office.15
HTML* 
Joseph H. Dean's Biography.
 

Family 1

Sarah Allen Arnold b. 13 Dec 1854, d. 1 Jan 1932
Children

Family 2

Florence Ridges b. 1 Dec 1866, d. 14 Jul 1942
Children

Last Edited25 Jan 2007

Citations

  1. [S138] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Henry Dean Family Group Sheet", Family group sheet compiled by my grandfather.
  2. [S144] Harold Dean, "Joseph Dean Family Group Sheet."
  3. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.
  4. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  5. [S84] LDS Family History Library, Sarah A. Arnold Marriage Record; FHL #0183401.
  6. [S208] D. Michael Quinn, "New Plural Marriages."
  7. [S398] Joseph Henry Dean, Joseph Henry Dean Death Certificate.
  8. [S147] 1870 US Federal Census (online images) Morgan City, Utah Territory, p 38.
  9. [S254] Utah Gazetteer.
  10. [S255] Utah Directory, 1890.
  11. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Mancos, Montezuma, CO, ED 77, Sheet 9.
  12. [S333] House of Joseph Dean Photograph; Gordon Banks Files.
  13. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) La Plata Co., Kline Precinct #20, Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 80, Sheet 10 B.
  14. [S210] 1920 US Federal Census (online images) Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, ED 24, Sheet 9A.
  15. [S209] 1930 US Federal Census (online images) Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, ED 18-82, Sheet 4A.
  16. [S106] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File", Ancestral File.
  17. [S138] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Henry Dean Family Group Sheet", Family group sheet compiled by my grandfather, p. 308.
  18. [S327] Charles E. Dean, Church Birth Certificate.

Florence Ridges

F, #3, b. 1 December 1866, d. 14 July 1942

 
 

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1,2,3 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1,2 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Florence Ridges|b. 1 Dec 1866\nd. 14 Jul 1942|p1.htm#i3|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree

Birth*1 December 1866 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2,4 
Marriage*11 June 1885 the Logan Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah, Principal=Joseph Henry Dean5,4 
Death*14 July 1942 Shelley, Bingham, ID5 
Burial*22 July 1942 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA4
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt6
Married Name11 June 1885 Dean 
(Witness) Census3 May 1910 Kline, La Plata, CO, Joseph H. Dean, 54, Farmer
Sarah A. ,55, wife #1
Florence R. , 43, wife #2
Harry A., 17, son of #1
Clifford, 11, son of #1
Wilford M., 20, son of #2
Lawrence J., 18, son of #2
Charles E., 16, son of #2
Florence S., 13, dau of #2
Winifred L., 11, dau of #2
Stanley R., 9, son of #2
Leah R., 6, dau of #2
Dorothy, 2, dau of #2
Donald, 3 mo., son of #2, Principal=Joseph Henry Dean7
Census*17 January 1920 Shelley, Bingham, ID, Dean, Joseph H., Head, WM 64, b. England, parents b. England, night watchman at the sugar factory.
Florence, wife, WF 53, b. Utah, parents b. England, nurse with private family.
Stanley, son, WM 18, b. Colo.
Lea, dau, WF 16, b. N Mex.
Dorothy, dau, WF, 12, b. Colo.
Donald, so, WM, 9, b. Colo., Principal=Joseph Henry Dean, Witness=Stanley Ridges Dean, Witness=Leah Ridges Dean, Witness=Dorothy Ridges Dean, Witness=Donald Ridges Dean8
Note* Her journal is in the manuscripts division of the J. Willard Marriot Library of the University of Utah. 

Family

Joseph Henry Dean b. 16 Oct 1855, d. 2 Nov 1947
Children

Last Edited7 Sep 2004

Citations

  1. [S82] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges LDS Membership Record; FHL #884096.
  2. [S83] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges Temple Record; FHL #178052.
  3. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  4. [S238] Wilma Stone, 2003.
  5. [S138] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Henry Dean Family Group Sheet", Family group sheet compiled by my grandfather.
  6. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.
  7. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) La Plata Co., Kline Precinct #20, Supervisor's District 2, Enumeration District 80, Sheet 10 B.
  8. [S210] 1920 US Federal Census (online images) Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, ED 24, Sheet 9A.
  9. [S327] Charles E. Dean, Church Birth Certificate.

Lovina Jemima Pratt

F, #4, b. 6 August 1787, d. 18 May 1878

 

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Lovina Jemima Pratt|b. 6 Aug 1787\nd. 18 May 1878|p1.htm#i4|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*6 August 1787 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1,3 
Marriage5 September 1812 Principal=Losee Van Cott4,5 
BaptismOctober 1844 5 
Death*18 May 1878 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut5 
Burial*18 May 1878 3 
Name Variation Lovinia 
Married Name Van Cott 

Last Edited27 Dec 2006

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S387] Online Cemetery Index of Ancestry.com Salt Lake City Cemetery B-14-5.
  4. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 150.
  5. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.

Joseph Harris Ridges

M, #5, b. 24 April 1827, d. 7 March 1914

 
 

Father*Edward Ridges1 b. 5 Sep 1773, d. 8 Feb 1853
Mother*Rebecca Watson1 b. 29 Aug 1795
Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Joseph Ridges|b. 26 Apr 1740\nd. 31 Jan 1822|p44.htm#i1292|Sarah Harris|b. 7 Dec 1743\nd. 3 Nov 1819|p44.htm#i1293|John F. Watson|b. c 1765|p52.htm#i1550|Elizabeth Newbolt|b. c 1765|p52.htm#i1551|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree

Birth*24 April 1827 2 
Birth27 April 1827 Eling, Hampshire, England3 
Christening3 August 1827 Independent Church, Eling, Hampshire, England4 
Marriage*18 March 1850 Bride=Adelaide Whiteley5 
Marriage*31 January 1858 Bride=Emma Girdlestone5 
Marriage*4 March 1860 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut,
In the pamphlet, "PARLEY P. PRATT HIS TWELVE WIVES" (compiled by Kate B. Carter in 1947, for Daughters of Utah Pioneers) the following is recorded regarding this marriage to Joseph Harris Ridges:
"At the time of Parley P. Pratt's death, Ann Agatha was twenty-eight years old, still a young woman. Three years later she was asked by Joseph Harri Ridges, builder of the Tabernacle Organ, to be his wife. By counsel of President Brigham Young, SHE WAS MARRIED FOR TIME TO MR. RIDGES, MARCH 4, 1860. Two children were born to them--a daughter, Louise, who died in infancy, and a son, Wilford Owen Ridges. Six years after this marriage, January 20, 1866, Joseph Ridges took for his fourth wife, Agatha Pratt, daughter of Ann Agatha. About this time Ann Agatha discontinued living with Joseph Ridges, although there is no record of a divorce."

, 2nd=Ann Agatha Walker6 
Marriage6 July 1860 Bride=Elizabeth Jane Robins6 
Marriage*20 January 1866 Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Bride=Agatha Pratt7 
Marriage*6 July 1869 Bride=Elizabeth Jane Robins5 
Death*7 March 1914 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Cause: Cystitis3,2 
Burial*1914 City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah5
Occupation* a carpenter and organ builder5 
(member of household) Census18411841 Millbrook, Hampshire, England, [Note, I think this is the family, but the ages don't fit very well, but may have been sloppily entered. However, all of the members of this family fit in order, including the married daughter's name.]
Edward Ridges, M, 60, Carpenter, N;
John do, M, 20, Coach m., N;
Emily do, F, 15, N;
Joseph do, M, 10, N;
James Caithness, M 2, N;
Elizabeth do, F, 20, N., Head Of Household=Edward Ridges8
Census*7 June 1880 Ridges, Joseph, 33 WM, Carpenter, b. England, parents b. England;
Adelaide, 36 WF, wife, b. England, parents b. England;
Ernest, 12 WM, son, b. UT, Principal=Adelaide Whiteley9
Census*9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 72 WM, b. Apr 1828, England, parents b. England, nat. 1850, Organ Builder, literate;
Agatha, wife, 57 WF, b. Jul 1848, UT, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Beatrice, dau., 24 WF, b. Nov 1875, UT, literate;
Bernice, dau., 20 WF, b. Jul 1879 (sic), UT, literate;
Parley, son, 18 WM, b. Jul 1881, UT, literate., Principal=Agatha Pratt, Witness=Beatrice Ridges, Witness=Josephine Bernice Ridges, Witness=Joseph Parley Ridges10
Census28 April 1910 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 82 WM, b. England, parents b. England, literate;
Agatha, wife, 61 WF, b. Utah, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Joseph P., son, 28 WM, b. UT, newspaper engraver.
Next Door:
Adelaide Ridges, head, 79 WF, b. England, parents b. England., Principal=Agatha Pratt, Witness=Joseph Parley Ridges11
Note* Biographical notes from diverse sources:

He was a native of England, was born April 27, 1827, at Ealing, a suburb of Southampton, Hampshire. His parents, Edward and Rebecca Watson Ridges, belonged to the yeoman class, a group largely responsible for the transforming of the marshes and fens of England into productive fields and places of beauty. When Joseph was 23 years of age, he married at New Road Chapel, London, Adelade Whiteley, a lovely girl whose parents were prosperous. Joseph Alfred, their first child, was born July 13, 1850, and was christened at Paddington Parish, London.

Possessed of an adventurous spirit, the family left England in November of 1851 for Australia where they planned to make an interesting and productive life. Five months were passed on the sea before they landed at Sydney. Among the ship's passengers was the Luke Syphus family with whom Joseph and Adelade became close friends. In Sydney they became neighbors, and soon the Ridges discovered their friends were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Luke taught them the gospel. Later, they were visited by the missionaries and converted to the new religion, both being baptized November 15, 1853, by Elder Augustus Farnham.

Joseph continued to work at the trade of carpentry and cabinetmaker, but the desire to gather in Zion with the Saints became uppermost in his thoughts, thus he began making plans to leave Australia. Before they left, the family heard that the Saints were practicing polygamy. This shocked Joseph and he said, "I won't have anything to do with the Church if they do that." Adelade, who was very devout in her religion, told him, "We should go and hear what the president of the Church tells us in regard to the principle."

Shortly before leaving, one of their small sons died. They were overwhelmed with grief and felt they could not leave his body in Australia. Joseph built a tightly-fitted coffin and lovingly they placed the body of their child in it. Then he sealed it with a substance to make it airtight so that they might carry the little body with them across the waters.

Another son was born to them April 15, 1856, and they sailed May 25th on the schooner, Jenny Lind, along with several returning elders. Arriving in California early in September, they decided to remain in San Bernardino for the winter. On September 15th their baby died and he was laid to rest along with his brother whose body had been brought from Australia. Joseph worked at his trade as carpenter in Los Angeles that winter.

In April of 1857 Joseph and Adelade left San Bernardino, traveling with the Charles C. Rich company to Utah. The trip across the desert was a trying one, as the weather was hot and the trail dusty. Joseph was inexperienced in handling mules, and as his were young, he had difficulty keeping them on the road. Somewhere in the desert, Joseph lost his gold watch which he highly prized. He knew it was useless to retrace his steps to try and find it, so continued on his way. Fortunately, a few months later, a rider found the watch glistening in the sand and took it on to Salt Lake City where it was subsequently returned to Joseph. The company arrived in the Valley June 11, 1857, where Joseph and Adelade were met by President Farnham, who had baptized them in Australia, and he took them to his home to stay until they could obtain a place of their own.

Adelade soon discovered that her husband approved of polygamy, for a year after they reached Salt Lake City he married Emma Smith, who was four years his senior. One child, whom they named Mary, was born of this union. Later Joseph married Agatha Pratt, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Parley and Agatha Walker Pratt. Eight children were born to them. Joseph's wives all worked hard to help provide the living for the large family, as most of Joseph's labor brought scant wages.

But though poor in worldly goods he might have been, immortality of another kind awaited Joseph Ridges in the form of a glorious organ that he would raise in a desert tabernacle.

To understand the ability of the Latter-day Saints to attempt, in their isolated situation, an undertaking of the proportions of the Tabernacle and its great organ, one must understand the inherent temperament of the Mormon people. Here was not a body of people of one mind and culture leaving the tyranny of a despotic country, but a great mass of emigrants from all corners of the earth, trying desperately to blend their differences in an inhospitable region. Their sufferings were sometimes intense in their chosen mountains and valleys, as they were in the mid-west and on the western trek, and among the suffering, music seems to play a majestic and important role. In times of great trial, the desert would ring with their favorite hymns, or with songs that bouyed up their sagging spirits. Many of the most beautiful hymns of hope and faith of the Church date from those harrowing days. Whether or not it was this shared experience that instilled in the Saints a great and continuing love for music cannot be said, but that it implanted in their souls a desire for a great organ and equally magnificent choir can scarcely be doubted.

Music has been a part of the Church organization from the earliest days. In an article by Phil Margetts, pioneer of 1850, he speaks of the Old Bowery in 1851 "... The west end was used for the speakers' stand and choir...." And from the writings of Levi Edgar Young we learn:

The Old Tabernacle was a center for high class music and lectures in early days. Now and then musical feasts were held to which came the people from all parts of the Territory. For example it was announced on a special programme, for Tuesday evening, December 9, 1862, that the first concert of the Deseret Musical Association will be held in the Tabernacle December 9, 1862. "This Association," says the announcement, "has been organized for the purpose of diffusing throughout the Territory a taste for the cultivation of music upon rational and scientific principles. Since its classes have been formed, it has had the attendance of between four and five hundred scholars in this city who have thus far been taught gratuitously. With the view of defraying the expenses incurred in printing at home the music used by the classes in the Tonic Sol-Fa Notation, and in the hope of procuring for the Association an organ and such other instruments of music as are required for the further extension of its usefulness, the patronage of the public is now solicited."

The orchestra on this occasion was conducted by Professor C. J. Thomas and the whole was under the direction of Mr. David O. Calder. It is interesting to read from the programme that "Cash, store pay, and produce will be received for tickets." At this concert selections from the opera, The Barber of Seville as well as The Creation by Haydn were rendered. In reviewing the programme, one is impressed with the fact that the management had in mind the creation of an interest in community music, a movement which today has become an important factor in our educational system.

The First Organ—In an interview with Joseph which took place in 1897, the reporter, said by the Ridges family to have been Karl G. Maeser, elicited the following interesting account of the talented organ-builder's early life:

"Across the street where I lived when a boy near London was a pair of massive, tall, iron fretwork gates. Beyond them was situated a large organ loft and factory. I can remember those youthful days in green England, and the delight with which I used to sometimes pass beyond those gates and revel in the mysteries of that organ factory, watch the men at their work, and study and think out the purposes and uses of the numerous things the mechanics were at work upon. The bellows with their great ribbed sides and pumpers underneath; their tops weighted with heavy iron bricks that represented 1,000 pounds of cast metal; the little glass tubes that registered and tested the power of the wind in the bellows—one and all come before me now just as they appeared to me in my boyhood days. The great arteries that rushed compressed wind into the huge wind chest, that were all fitted up with their beautiful valves and hardened brass wire springs, the thousands of pipes and the men voicing them—I can see them now just as though it were only yesterday since I left that organ factory."

"That organ factory, then, really was the birthplace of the great Tabernacle organ," suggested the reporter.

"Yes; I can say that I first became interested in things pertaining to music in general and organs in particular when as a boy I wandered through that factory and used my eyes. I had a youthful chum, too, who was older than I was, one who had been through all the branches of the work, and was conversant with the intricacies of an instrument. From him I learned many things pertaining to his trade. In the organ loft at that factory were a number of second-hand church organs of varying power; some with one, some with two and some with three manuals. This spot was a veritable fairyland for me as a youngster. Here we would spend our spare time, my friend and I, and we would take it in turns to blow for each other while one of us played on one of the instruments. While thus engaged I would ply my companion with all kinds of questions in regard to the mechanism of the instrument. I guess I must have been a veritable human sponge, the way I absorbed information in those days. My curiosity and search for knowledge brought me into numerous juvenile scrapes. I can say that my enthusiasm led me to take long walks of miles in order to visit some distant church and endeavor to get into conversation with the organist, that he might allow me to examine his instrument. Many is the time that I have been allowed to remain throughout the morning service, and also, I must say, many is the time I have had to remain there until the verger unlocked the doors for evening song."

Continuing to review the events that led up to his eventually coming to Utah and erecting the famous Tabernacle organ, that has been the means of affording so much joy to residents and tourists alike, Mr. Ridges said:

"In '51, in company with friends, (family) I sailed for Australia, suffering from a bad attack of gold fever, and after five months at sea, we landed at Sydney. While on board ship I became acquainted with a gentleman whose name was Luke Syphus; it subsequently transpired that Mr. Syphus was a Mormon, but at that time I could not have told you what a Mormon was, as the fame, or otherwise, of the Latter-day Saints had not then become so widely known as perhaps it is today. Upon landing at Sydney, I joined forces with this gentleman and we went some 400 miles up the rivers and creeks into the dense bush. Well, to cut the matter short, it was not long before I found out what a Mormon was, and I became one of them joyfully, an action which I have never regretted, if it did have the effect of causing my brothers and relatives at home in England to cease corresponding with me.

"After staying in the bush for some time I returned to the beautiful city of Sydney. Here I picked out a double-storied house, and having a little money coming to me I began to build my first church organ, which by the way, was the first organ to be built in Australia. I had plenty of time on my hands and I worked night and day at the instrument."

Mr. Ridges went on to describe the calm, unalloyed delight with which he worked on that organ; how it began to grow under his skillful hands. The story of how he developed the beautiful wind-chest with its slides and valves, and how it was reared into position piece by piece, proved to be a very interesting one. The climax was reached when he related how he attached the valves to the keys and then made, voiced and tuned the two soft, rich diapason stops to pipes—the basis and charm of all organ tones—and commenced to play on the organ. As the tones filled the house and floated into the street, men and women came out of their homes and stopped in the street with the expression "Great God, there is a church organ in there and we have not heard one for years!" Mr. Ridges stated that he finished the inside of the organ with six stops to ultimately bring it to Utah after many adventures:

"I went ahead and when I had the instrument all completed, the presiding Elder of the Latter-day Saints Church, of which I recently had become a member, asked me to donate my work to the church in Utah. I agreed to so do, and we soldered the various sections of the organ up in large tin cases and shipped them to San Pedro, California. When we arrived there, Charles C. Rich and Amasa Lyman sent teams down from San Bernardino, seventy miles distant, to fetch the organ to that settlement.

"I remained in Los Angeles and San Pedro all that winter and made some alterations in one of the two shipping houses that comprised that place at the time. The houses were built of adobe and had walls three feet thick for me to cut through and put in doors. For this work the owner paid me four mules, some harness, a wagon, a sack or two of flour, and a little money. He paid well for the job as there were no competent carpenters available and he wanted the work rushed. The man had a great high corral in which he kept about two hundred mules, which he used to freight grapes from Los Angeles for shipment by sea. With ten span of mules hitched on to a big prairie schooner, piled ten feet high with boxes of grapes, he would start out for the coast. The roads were rough, the mules barely broken and the sequel often was a tangled-up mess of squealing mules, and overturned wagon and grapes scattered all over the landscape.

"In the meantime, while I was working in California, the presiding Elder, Mr. Farnham of the Australian mission, had reached Salt Lake. He told President Brigham Young about the organ and the President sent word by the next party to have it brought on to Salt Lake City.

"A company was made up for the long, dangerous and tedious journey across the desert. The tin cases containing my organ—some of them as long as a wagon—were loaded up and we started out from California Apr. 18, 1857, to Salt Lake, taking the trail now followed by the Salt Lake Route Railroad today. Our company was made up of twelve wagons hauled by fourteen mule teams.

"From this time on we made good progress until we struck a strip of desert which we crossed in three days, with the sand up to the hubs and no water available save what we carried in a barrel lashed to the side of each wagon. The story of the travels of that organ would make a book in itself. It would include some local color tales of the horror of thirst on the desert, and of a collection of adobe dwellings, now the City of Los Angeles."

On arrival in Salt Lake City, the organ was given to President Young who had Joseph Ridges install it in the Old Tabernacle. A note in the Deseret News states that the organ was played there for the first time on October 11, 1857.

"I went ahead and when I had the instrument all completed, the presiding Elder of the Latter-day Saints Church, of which I recently had become a member, asked me to donate my work to the church in Utah. I agreed to so do, and we soldered the various sections of the organ up in large tin cases and shipped them to San Pedro, California. When we arrived there, Charles C. Rich and Amasa Lyman sent teams down from San Bernardino, seventy miles distant, to fetch the organ to that settlement.

"I remained in Los Angeles and San Pedro all that winter and made some alterations in one of the two shipping houses that comprised that place at the time. The houses were built of adobe and had walls three feet thick for me to cut through and put in doors. For this work the owner paid me four mules, some harness, a wagon, a sack or two of flour, and a little money. He paid well for the job as there were no competent carpenters available and he wanted the work rushed. The man had a great high corral in which he kept about two hundred mules, which he used to freight grapes from Los Angeles for shipment by sea. With ten span of mules hitched on to a big prairie schooner, piled ten feet high with boxes of grapes, he would start out for the coast. The roads were rough, the mules barely broken and the sequel often was a tangled-up mess of squealing mules, and overturned wagon and grapes scattered all over the landscape.

"In the meantime, while I was working in California, the presiding Elder, Mr. Farnham of the Australian mission, had reached Salt Lake. He told President Brigham Young about the organ and the President sent word by the next party to have it brought on to Salt Lake City.

"A company was made up for the long, dangerous and tedious journey across the desert. The tin cases containing my organ—some of them as long as a wagon—were loaded up and we started out from California Apr. 18, 1857, to Salt Lake, taking the trail now followed by the Salt Lake Route Railroad today. Our company was made up of twelve wagons hauled by fourteen mule teams.

"From this time on we made good progress until we struck a strip of desert which we crossed in three days, with the sand up to the hubs and no water available save what we carried in a barrel lashed to the side of each wagon. The story of the travels of that organ would make a book in itself. It would include some local color tales of the horror of thirst on the desert, and of a collection of adobe dwellings, now the City of Los Angeles."

On arrival in Salt Lake City, the organ was given to President Young who had Joseph Ridges install it in the Old Tabernacle. A note in the Deseret News states that the organ was played there for the first time on October 11, 1857.

When the present great Tabernacle was well advanced, David O. Calder, the founder of the well-known music firm was teaching children note singing in the old schoolhouse just within the Eagle Gate. By this time, cabinet organs had come to be comparatively common in Utah, and altogether music was coming to be in the ascendant. The universal opinion was that it was absolutely necessary that a big organ should be obtained to accompany the choir. The thoughts of Brigham Young were always in advance of those of the rest of the community. One day he said that the Tabernacle must have a big organ which would be commensurate with the beauty and vastness of the building. No sooner had he advanced this proposition than it was at once urgently supported by the approval of such influential and sterling citizens as D. H. Wells, G. A. Smith, D. O. Calder, Alexander Pyper, Dr. Benedict and others. Again quoting Joseph Ridges:

After discussing the matter, President Brigham Young came to me and asked me if it were possible to build such an organ in Utah. I told him that I thought it could be done, whereupon he asked me to draw preliminary plans of the instrument. I at once went to work on the draft of a large organ in the office of Truman O. Angell.... By this time I had submitted the scheme of the organ together with the plans and elevation to President Young and he had approved them. One day he came into my shop and I can hear him speaking as if to himself, now, as if it were yesterday: "Can we do this thing? Yes, we can, we can do anything that we put our minds to." Turning to me he said, "Go ahead with this, Brother Ridges." The elevation looked grand with the pillars, towers and domes towering to the roof. The President asked many questions regarding the size of the platforms required, their strength and weight to be carried. He then took me down to the Tabernacle and marked with his stick a certain distance out from the west wall according to plan. (End of quote.)

Myrtle M. Dean, a granddaughter of Joseph Ridges, stated that there was much prayer and planning for this great venture. "Carefully Joseph made the plans and each day took them to the architect, Truman O. Angell. Finally, together they agreed that the plans were satisfactory and they were approved by the Church leaders. Brigham Young was very pleased and told Joseph to go ahead and find workers to assist him in the building of this organ."

Having received permission to proceed, Joseph gathered around him several men who, although they had never worked at organ building, were nevertheless intelligent and skillful mechanics. Shure Olsen, Niels Johnson, David Anderson, William Pinney and John Sandberg proved to be invaluable workmen. As the great organ neared completion, Mr. Frank Woods, who had worked at the business before, was engaged. A shop was constructed on the Temple grounds for greater convenience.

Returning to the words of Joseph Ridges: "Great difficulties had to be met and surmounted. The white vertical grain pine had to be obtained from the mountains and some loads were brought in wagons from St. George, a distance of nearly 325 miles. This was the best wood for the pipes, being free from gum or pitch, and clear. The great 32-foot tones required many thousands of feet of it.

"We wanted immense quantities of glue, so we made ranks of fires just outside the Tabernacle walls and put on big iron pots. We wanted cowhides to chop up and boil down into glue. We got them, for the cows simply died. We also wanted calves' skins to hide the bags of the great bellows, and the calves died also.

"At this stage my time began to be taken up with making scales of sizes of ranks of pipes, voicing them and assigning details for the boys. Those were busy, happy days. After many months, the great instrument on which we had worked so long began to assert itself. The great bellows were put in place, the strong frames carrying their huge wind chests, with their multitudes of heavy pipes, the entablature, the columns and pillars, began to rise into their positions. All was happiness and pleasure and we felt, every one of us, that we had not worked in vain. Our reward was with us, for a thing of beauty is a joy forever...."

Joseph discovered that certain materials were needed that were not available in the Valleys of the Mountains. President Young gave him $900.00 to take a trip East where he purchased wire, leather, brass, ivory for the keys and other needed materials. Jay M. Todd, in the April 1967 issue of the Improvement Era had the following to say in his article, The Tabernacle Organ:

As a master of intricacies behind the casework, Joseph Ridges perhaps felt the need for ideas and assistance concerning the organ's exterior. Few of us realize the planning that must go into making the best possible acoustical and architectural conditions for an organ. But Joseph Ridges did, and apparently he recognized in the Boston Music Hall organ that for which he had been searching.

While in Boston, because of his interest in organs and desire to improve his technical knowledge, Joseph Ridges probably inquired about and examined organs. The most famous organ of the time, then only a little more than two years old, was the Boston Music Hall organ. For still another decade this instrument, inaugurated November 2, 1863, was to be known in America as "the great organ."

Comparing photographs of the Tabernacle organ with the Boston Music Hall instrument, it appears that the Boston organ left a deep imprint upon him. Whether Joseph Ridges examined the Boston Music Hall organ in person or examined it through pictures or designs, it appears that he adapted some of the exterior design and a few of the interior intricacies of the Boston organ to fit the needs of the instrument he was to build in the Tabernacle.

Ridges returned to Salt Lake in the spring of 1866 and set himself to the almost incredibly difficult one-man task of designing and guiding the building of an organ that soon would overshadow even "the great organ" in tonal beauty and frame. Without benefit of an international commission of organists or counsel from technicians, Brother Ridges began anew his work.

Following his return to Salt Lake City, newspaper reporters quoted him as saying the Tabernacle organ would be built "on a large scale on the most improved principles ... that modern art in organ building has produced." At that time he commented that there would be a 32-foot pitched pipe and that the general dimensions of the organ and casing would be about 23 feet wide by 30 feet deep by 40 feet high. He said that the design would be "a very handsome one, and that the front will be formed with flutings, panels and pillars in the Corinthian style, tastefully carved and crowned with pyramidical tops," and will present a "massive and imposing appearance."

When the group of pioneers reached the valley of the Little Salt Lake January 13, 1851, they immediately set out to explore their new-found home. Some were assigned to explore the canyon for timber and they found an abundance of great towering pines, giant sentinels of bygone days, their arms reaching up, far up into the blue.

Sometime in the early 1860s, President Brigham Young sent scouts all over the Territory for samples of wood with which to build the Tabernacle organ. It was finally decided that the timber in Parowan Canyon and Pine Valley Mountain was suitable. Excitement ran high when word came to Parowan that the authorities wanted loads and loads of the very best obtainable, and there was keen competition even among the loggers to see who could secure the very best trees.

Sawmills for cutting the logs were plentiful. In the mouth of the canyon on the stream was the sawmill built and run by Richard Benson, but owned by President George A. Smith. The second was about a half-mile farther up the canyon, owned and operated by Bishop Herman D. Bayles. The third, just below the four-mile and directly above the three-mile rock, was built and owned by Ebenezer Hanks, who later sold it to Nathan Benson. The Bayles mill wasn't running full time, as Bishop Bayles was the master carpenter working to complete the rock church.

The logs were hauled by oxteam into the first and third sawmills, where the old up-and-down saws were never idle. Every time the saw went up and down the log would go forward and saw the length of its teeth, then it would go up and down again, taking another bite. Great lengths of timbers and lumber were sawed without even a knot to mar their surface. Hence a good share of the timbers and lumber that went into the Tabernacle Organ was hauled by oxteam from Parowan Main Canyon to Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Some of the pipes were thirty-two feet long.

The following story was told by Bishop Hugh L. Adams:

I remember my father, Hugh L. Adams, telling about going to Salt Lake City with his father, Grandfather William Adams, to haul some of the timbers for the organ. Father was only a boy and was so excited about his first trip to Salt Lake. They made it out to Buck Horn Springs the first day and turned their oxen out to graze during the night. But old Bonny and Bounce and the others got homesick, and the next morning not an oxen could be found. So Grandfather left the boy to look after the outfit, while he hunted the run-away oxen. He tracked them clear back to Parowan, and what a long weary day it was for the little boy, who, at every sound, thought the Indians were after him. About sundown, Grandfather came in with the missing oxen. So over the long weary roads, making from twelve to fifteen miles a day, fording streams, building bridges, trudged the men and oxen, hauling the precious timbers that were to make the most famed organ in all the world.

The Journal of Robert Garner states:

In 1866 the great Tabernacle organ was being built in Salt Lake City, and some clear, clean lumber was needed for the pipes. To Robert Gardner was assigned the duty of furnishing this particular lumber. He and his son William began searching the forest for a tree that would serve the purpose. Finally one was found at the mouth of what is called Middle Fork, in Pine Valley. The tree was cut down, sawed into lumber and hauled by oxteam to Salt Lake, a distance of approximately three hundred miles. The stump of that tree is now being preserved as a landmark of this early pioneer achievement. The story of this accomplishment has become a tradition among the Gardner family and the residents of Pine Valley.

Historian's Office
Sept. 24, 1927

Mr. D. S. Spencer
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dear Mr. Spencer:
Referring to Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah, known for the fine quality of timber supplied therefrom, I may state that the first sawmill was built there as early as 1856.
Much of the wood for the great organ for the Salt Lake Tabernacle, built by Joseph Ridges in 1866 and 1867, was obtained from the hills of Pine Valley and was hauled by wagons with oxteams, a distance of about 325 miles. Especially was this wood used for the larger pipes because it was clear from knots, straight of grain and without pitch or gum.

Yours very truly,
Andrew Jenson,
Assistant Church Historian

May 24, 1866. We paid a visit to the organ shop the other day where the large organ for the New Tabernacle is being built and we are gratified to note the progress already made. Brother J. H. Ridges, the builder, kindly informed us that the organ is being constructed on a large scale on the most improved principle. It has two manuals or keyboards and 27 pedals.... It will contain something like 2,000 pipes.... The instrument when completed will be 20 by 30 feet and 40 feet high and the cost of it, if made in the East and freighted here, would be over $30,000. —The Deseret News.

An article appeared in the Deseret News of July 3, 1869, from which the following excerpt is taken:

On entering the New Tabernacle today, we were filled with admiration at the beauty and grandeur of the great organ, now that the scaffolding has been removed and the organ case grained and varnished. Its cathedral-like shape, with immense towers and symmetrical proportions, now stands out beautifully, and the entire work reflects great credit upon Brother J. Ridges, the designer and builder. When completed the organ will compare favorably with any in the world for its beauty of design and purity of tone.... We have heard but one expression about the organ from the many visitors who have examined the workmanship and listened to its tones: they think it a remarkable piece of mechanism to be built in this country, and that it isn't inferior, so far as completed, to the eastern and foreign-made articles of its class.

The biographical sketch of Mr. Ridges' life on file at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers points out that he worked twelve years building the organ. Years after its completion he had this to say:

I am proud of that organ, as proud as the proudest father could be of a distinguished son, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that when I am laid away to rest, the organ will continue to stand as a memorial of the trials and the difficulties that were overcome by the pioneers, breathing out strains of sweet music to delight future generations.

At the New Year's service in 1901, the outstanding feature of the occasion was the introduction of Joseph H. Ridges to the vast audience by President Angus M. Cannon. The entire congregation gave vent to their feelings of gratitude for the service rendered by this great man by bursting forth in a thunderous applause.

In his later years, Joseph Ridges often reminisced on the days when the great organ was being built. Below is one such interesting account:

... Brother Bywater brought the iron horse into Salt Lake with the screeching of whistles and the clanging of bells. Every day brought in trains which were loaded down with excursionists and tourists who invariably came to see the great Tabernacle and the organ as it was being reared behind the massive scaffold. Many is the time that these tourists have said to me, "Why, Mr. Ridges, you people way off here in Salt Lake are manifesting intelligence and genius to a degree which we were not led to expect in the wild west!" Sometimes Capt. Hooper, with a dozen of his friends from Congress and Washington, would come and ask me to show our work to them. I can remember that one day some seventeen members of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's congregation from Brooklyn, N.Y., visited us and expressed themselves delighted with the tone of the organ. The great 32-foot pipes, in those days had not heretofore been attempted in the United States.

After the Brooklyn visitors returned to their homes, I received one of their papers containing an account of their visit here in which it was admitted that in some things the Mormons were ahead of the people of New York.

Well, I guess I had better not talk any more in that strain as you might think that possibly I am trying to blow my own trumpet. (End of quote.)

Many stories tell of the difficulty of pumping the organ bellows; indeed, four men would be tired out in half an hour. When the organist, Joseph Daynes, announced at one time that he would play Tannhauser as an encore, he found the organ without air. According to Albert L. Zobell, Jr., Mr. Daynes, after signaling for a few moments, went to the rear of the organ where he found the four "pumpers" comfortably seated. When questioned, they said, "Whenever you give a recital you always get the credit, and we wish to say that without our help there can be no recital." Brother Daynes returned and had his four assistants named one by one.

From the Press:

On Tuesday evening Feb. 19, 1901, the testimonial benefit for Joseph H. Ridges, the designer and builder of the Tabernacle organ, will be given in the Tabernacle and on that occasion the grand old instrument as it came from the hands of the builder and as later improved by other artisans will be heard for the last time before undergoing extensive improvements. Following the concert the organ will be shut down for several weeks while it goes through a $12,000 process of overhauling and improvement.

The following program prepared by Professor Evan Stephens was given:

Chorus, Praise the Lord, Randagger Tabernacle Choir
Organ solo, selected J. J. McClellan
Soprano solo, Queen of the Earth, Pinsuti Claribel Ridges Pike
Rigoletto Quartet, Verdi Lizzie T. Edward,
Arvilla Clark, Mrs. Thomas S. Ashworth
and Horace S. Ensign
Organ Solo, Selection Prof. Thomas Radcliffe
Solo and Chorus, Gypsy Sweetheart, Herbert
Horace S. Ensign and Choir
Song, Southern Tennessee Little Miss Williams
Organ solo, selection Prof. J. J. Daynes
Male Quartet, Beauty's Eyes, Tosti Messrs. G. D. Pyper,
David Dunbar, H. S. Ensign, J. D. Spencer
Contralto solo Miss Arvilla Clark
Remarks and Illustration of the Pipe Organ Joseph H. Ridges
March and Chorus, Hail to the Victor, Auber
Tabernacle Choir and Organ
E. Stephens Director
J. J. McClellan Accompanist

Joseph H. Ridges, 88 years of age, builder of the famous Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and who won renown as the man who gave Utah the distinction of having the greatest pipe organ in the world, died at 8 o'clock last night (March 7, 1914) at his residence, 427 W. Third North. Mr. Ridges had been in ill health about one month. Mr. Ridges was born in Ealing, near Southampton, Hampshire, England, April 27, 1827.

Mr. Ridges is survived by two widows Mrs. Addie Ridges and Mrs. Florence R. Dean Ridges. By his first wife, Addie Ridges, he is survived by three children, Ernest E. Ridges and Mrs. Amy Ridges Williams of Salt Lake and Mrs. Addie Ridges Wood of Bountiful, and by his second wife, Mrs. Florence R. Dean Ridges, six children, Milton Ridges, Mrs. Louis R. Carpenter, Mrs. Bernice R. Haddock, J. P. Ridges and Miss Beatrice Ridges of Salt Lake and Mrs. Clarebelle R. Pike of Idaho Falls....

The Tabernacle Choir, at the close of the afternoon services yesterday, upon the suggestion of Prof. Evan Stephens, appointed a committee to draw up the resolutions of respect to the memory of Mr. Ridges. The following was later submitted by the committee:

Whereas, our Heavenly Father in His wisdom has called our venerable and esteemed brother, Joseph H. Ridges, from our midst to his reward, we the officers and members of the Tabernacle Choir, who have for so many years been closely associated with the result of his genius in the construction of the grand organ whose rich tones have touched hearts of thousands from far and near, and which will be a lasting monument to his memory, hereby express our sincere sympathy and condolence to his wives and families and pray that our Heavenly Father will comfort them in this hour of their bereavement and request the secretary to spread a copy of this resolution upon the records of the choir.

Daniel J. Lund, Joseph A. White, W. N. B. Shepherd, committee.

The following is taken from The Great Mormon Tabernacle by Levi Edgar Young:

In 1900 the First Presidency of the Church decided to bring the organ up to date, and the services of the W. W. Kimball Company of Chicago were called in to enlarge the instrument and to introduce an entirely new mechanism, which would be good for many years to come. After this work was completed the organ was regarded as a rare work of organ building. Great strides have been made in organ construction, and important improvements are constantly necessary in order to keep the Tabernacle instrument apace with the times. For this reason, the First Presidency again decided to have the great organ thoroughly overhauled, and a contract was made with the Austin Organ Company, Hartford, Connecticut. This was in 1915. As a result of the work of the Connecticut company, the entire mechanism has been changed, but such pipes of the old organ that are still in good condition have been used. These have been regulated and revoiced to conform to the tonal scheme. Especially notable among these old pipes are the large thirty-two foot diapasons. The original case has been preserved and remains the center of the elevation. A new extension of about fifteen feet in width has been built on both sides, so that the present organ is practically thirty feet wider than originally.

The action of the organ is electric throughout; the power for it is furnished by low voltage generators. The wind pressure by which the pipes are blown is furnished by centrifugal fans, which are rotated by four motors creating thirty-two horsepower. Nearly two thousand magnets are used in the mechanism which controls the vast tonal resource of the organ. The total number of pipes is between seven and eight thousand and in order to make these pipes speak, wind is forced through them in five, ten, and fifteen-inch pressure. The air enters the organ through large air chests and some of these are as large as an ordinary room. Above these air chests are myriads of pipes varying in length from five-eighth inch to thirty-two feet long. The interior of the organ contains one hundred and twelve sets of pipes, which are divided into seven sections.

It is believed that this instrument has now attained a perfection which will place it in the fore-rank of the great organs of the world. The console, or keyboard, of the organ, is one of the most interesting features. It is direct electric in all its mechanism and is exceedingly small in comparison to the mammoth instrument it controls, and supplies the organist with unusual facilities for controlling the instrument. It is wonderfully compact in design, and is movable. "Key-stop" action is used, and in addition to the four banks of manual keys and pedals, there are no less than 270 different appurtenances, all of which the organist must remember. These consist of stops, couplers, etc. The console is connected with the organ by cables; there are two junction or connection boards in the floor, which permit of the console being moved to any desired location in the rostrum. There is also a canceller system provided which consists of small bars running over a group of stop keys, a touch of which may cancel any stops that may be in that department.

The present organ consists of seven organs or divisions, viz., great, swell, orchestral, solo, celestial, string and pedal organs. The celestial organ is located in a brick and concrete chamber under the floor in the east of the building, more than two hundred feet distant from the main organ. It can be played from either the great or solo manuals, or both, duplex action and stops being provided, so that it is really a two-manual and pedal organ.

The string organ was the latest innovation in organ construction in 1915. It consists of seven ranks of pipes of string tone entirely independent of the other stops of this quality in the organ and is located in a separate swell-box behind the other swell-boxes. It can be operated from any manual, or all at the same time, and the shutters of this box become automatically switched to the swell-pedal of that particular organ to which the string organ has been connected.

The different organs are located on the level of the top row of seats in the choir gallery, as follows, beginning at the south side: orchestral, swell, great, and solo. The pedals are distributed in front, on the sides, and back of the other organs. (End of quote.)

In 1948 Donald Harrison, eminent English organ builder and president of the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, was engaged to rebuild the organ completely. Mr. Harrison announced this would be his "swan song" in organ building. The gigantic task was completed January 19, 1949.

There are now 188 sets of pipes, totaling 10,746 individual pipes. Many of the original pipes and much of the original casing are still in the organ. All of the cherished qualities have been retained, and in addition the dynamic range and tone color variety, the warmth, and the brilliance have been greatly extended. The Tabernacle organ ranks among the largest church organs in the world and among the most beautiful in tone quality.

Some of the original pipes built by Joseph Ridges are still in the new organ which include ten of the large visible wooden pipes in the front. Other pipes added by subsequent builders which are of desirable quality have also been kept and are a part of the present instrument.

Critics were at once unanimous in rating the new organ as one of the finest in existence. M. Marcel Dupre, organist at St. Sulpice in Paris, France, said of the organ:

The instrument is glorious, and it is in perfect balance. The acoustics of the historic Tabernacle are unique and give the organ the advantage that no other organ in the world has. This instrument is absolutely superb.

In 1955 when Alexander Schreiner, present Tabernacle organist (1967), attended the convention of the members of The National Organists Guild, where two thousand American organists and others assembled, he was told by the top ranking organists of the country that "much and all" as they thought of their own organs, the "prize" organ of all was in the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. —J. Spencer Cornwall, A Century of Singing.23 
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Family 1

Adelaide Whiteley d. 26 Aug 1919
Children

Family 2

Emma Girdlestone b. 31 Mar 1835, d. 31 Dec 1914
Child

Family 3

Ann Agatha Walker b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Children

Family 4

Agatha Pratt b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Children

Last Edited25 Jan 2007

Citations

  1. [S137] Charles Edwin Dean, "Edward Bear Ridges Family Group Sheet", Sources: 1841, 1851 Census Eling & Lyndhurst, Hamps.
    Parish register, Eling, Millbrook, Southampton, Lyndhurst
    Wills, Archdeacon Winton by Correspond.
    Marriage certificates, death certificates, Somerset House, London.
  2. [S399] Joseph Harris Ridges, Joseph Harris Ridges Death Certificate.
  3. [S101] Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Utah, Our Pioneer Heritage.
  4. [S102] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Film # 1235189.
  5. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  6. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  7. [S81] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Marriage Record; FHL #0183395.
  8. [S278] Unknown date unknown census type (online images) Hampshire, Millbrook, District 3.
  9. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 18.
  10. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.
  11. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 128, p. 18A.
  12. [S106] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File", Ancestral File.
  13. [S82] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges LDS Membership Record; FHL #884096.
  14. [S83] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges Temple Record; FHL #178052.

Agatha Pratt

F, #6, b. 7 July 1848, d. 12 August 1914

 
 

Father*Parley Parker Pratt1,2,3 b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Mother*Ann Agatha Walker2,3 b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
MotherAnn Agatha Walker b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|William G. Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree

Birth*7 July 1848 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah4,2,5,3 
Marriage*20 January 1866 Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, 5th=Joseph Harris Ridges6 
Death*12 August 1914 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,7 
Burial*August 1914 City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah8
Census*1850 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Household of Agatha Walker9
Married Name20 January 1866 Ridges6 
Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Witness=Florence Ridges, Witness=Milton Ridges, Witness=Clarabella Ridges, Witness=Agatha Louise Ridges, Witness=Beatrice Ridges, Witness=Josephine Bernice Ridges10
Census*9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 72 WM, b. Apr 1828, England, parents b. England, nat. 1850, Organ Builder, literate;
Agatha, wife, 57 WF, b. Jul 1848, UT, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Beatrice, dau., 24 WF, b. Nov 1875, UT, literate;
Bernice, dau., 20 WF, b. Jul 1879 (sic), UT, literate;
Parley, son, 18 WM, b. Jul 1881, UT, literate., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Witness=Beatrice Ridges, Witness=Josephine Bernice Ridges, Witness=Joseph Parley Ridges11
Census28 April 1910 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 82 WM, b. England, parents b. England, literate;
Agatha, wife, 61 WF, b. Utah, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Joseph P., son, 28 WM, b. UT, newspaper engraver.
Next Door:
Adelaide Ridges, head, 79 WF, b. England, parents b. England., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Witness=Joseph Parley Ridges12

Family

Joseph Harris Ridges b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Children

Last Edited25 Jan 2007

Citations

  1. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  2. [S79] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Temple Record; FHL #1761081.
  3. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  4. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464 gives date as 17 Jul.
  5. [S80] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Endowment House Record; FHL #183405.
  6. [S81] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Marriage Record; FHL #0183395.
  7. [S400] Unknown subject Death Registration, by unknown photographer.
  8. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  9. [S100] 1850 US Federal Census (online images) Roll M432_919 image 81 p. 41.
  10. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.
  11. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.
  12. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 128, p. 18A.
  13. [S82] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges LDS Membership Record; FHL #884096.
  14. [S83] LDS Family History Library, Florence Ridges Temple Record; FHL #178052.
  15. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."

Milton Ridges

M, #7, b. 17 December 1868, d. 9 December 1933

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Milton Ridges|b. 17 Dec 1868\nd. 9 Dec 1933|p1.htm#i7|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*17 December 1868 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2 
Marriage*21 December 1893 Principal=Mary Foster1 
Death*9 December 1933 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Cause: Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Coronary Occlusion1,2 
Burial* Slc Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah 
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt3
Census*9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah4
Occupation*9 December 1933 Contractor and Builder5 

Last Edited25 Jan 2007

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S400] Unknown subject Death Registration, by unknown photographer.
  3. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.
  4. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.
  5. [S400] Unknown subject Death Registration, by unknown photographer, According to Death Certificate.

Clarabella Ridges

F, #8, b. 15 December 1870, d. 10 November 1946

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Clarabella Ridges|b. 15 Dec 1870\nd. 10 Nov 1946|p1.htm#i8|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*15 December 1870 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Marriage*19 June 1893 Principal=John E. Pike1 
Divorce* Principal=John E. Pike1 
Death*10 November 1946 Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho1 
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt2
Married Name19 June 1893 Pike1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.

Agatha Louise Ridges

F, #9, b. 16 January 1873, d. 18 July 1941

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Agatha Louise Ridges|b. 16 Jan 1873\nd. 18 Jul 1941|p1.htm#i9|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*16 January 1873 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Marriage*19 November 1894 Principal=George Eustace Carpenter1 
Death*18 July 1941 1 
Burial* Forest Lawn, Glendale, California 
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt2
Married Name19 November 1894 Carpenter1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.

Beatrice Ridges

F, #10, b. 26 November 1875

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Beatrice Ridges|b. 26 Nov 1875|p1.htm#i10|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*26 November 1875 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt2
(Witness) Census9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 72 WM, b. Apr 1828, England, parents b. England, nat. 1850, Organ Builder, literate;
Agatha, wife, 57 WF, b. Jul 1848, UT, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Beatrice, dau., 24 WF, b. Nov 1875, UT, literate;
Bernice, dau., 20 WF, b. Jul 1879 (sic), UT, literate;
Parley, son, 18 WM, b. Jul 1881, UT, literate., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Principal=Agatha Pratt3
Married Name18 April 1906 Jones1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.
  3. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.

Josephine Bernice Ridges

F, #11, b. 6 July 1880

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Josephine Bernice Ridges|b. 6 Jul 1880|p1.htm#i11|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*6 July 1880 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
(Witness) Census7 June 1880 19th Ward, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Agatha, 31 WF, Wife, Keeping House, b. UT, father b. Sweden (sic), mother b. England;
Florence, 13 WF, dau., b. UT, father b. England, mother b. UT;
Milton, 11 WM, son, b. UT;
Clarabelle, 9 WF, dau, b. UT;
Louise, 7 WF, dau, b. UT;
Beatrice, 4 WF, dau, b. UT;
Josephine, 11/12, Jul, dau., b. UT.
, Principal=Agatha Pratt2
(Witness) Census9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 72 WM, b. Apr 1828, England, parents b. England, nat. 1850, Organ Builder, literate;
Agatha, wife, 57 WF, b. Jul 1848, UT, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Beatrice, dau., 24 WF, b. Nov 1875, UT, literate;
Bernice, dau., 20 WF, b. Jul 1879 (sic), UT, literate;
Parley, son, 18 WM, b. Jul 1881, UT, literate., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Principal=Agatha Pratt3
Married Name14 February 1901 Haddock1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 46, p. 19.
  3. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.

Joseph Parley Ridges

M, #12, b. 21 July 1881, d. 16 May 1965

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Joseph Parley Ridges|b. 21 Jul 1881\nd. 16 May 1965|p1.htm#i12|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*21 July 1881 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Death*16 May 1965 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Burial* Slc Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah2 
(Witness) Census9 June 1900 Third Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 72 WM, b. Apr 1828, England, parents b. England, nat. 1850, Organ Builder, literate;
Agatha, wife, 57 WF, b. Jul 1848, UT, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Beatrice, dau., 24 WF, b. Nov 1875, UT, literate;
Bernice, dau., 20 WF, b. Jul 1879 (sic), UT, literate;
Parley, son, 18 WM, b. Jul 1881, UT, literate., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Principal=Agatha Pratt3
(Witness) Census28 April 1910 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, Ridges, Joseph H., 82 WM, b. England, parents b. England, literate;
Agatha, wife, 61 WF, b. Utah, father b. NY, mother b. England, literate;
Joseph P., son, 28 WM, b. UT, newspaper engraver.
Next Door:
Adelaide Ridges, head, 79 WF, b. England, parents b. England., Principal=Joseph Harris Ridges, Principal=Agatha Pratt4
Note Birth date in question; may be 21 Jul 1881 vs. 20 Jul 1881.
 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  3. [S245] 1900 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, 3rd Precinct, ED 35, p. 1A.
  4. [S216] 1910 US Federal Census (online images) Utah, Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, ED 128, p. 18A.

Sidney Paul Ridges

M, #13, b. 17 January 1885, d. 18 March 1887

Father*Joseph Harris Ridges1 b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Mother*Agatha Pratt1 b. 7 Jul 1848, d. 12 Aug 1914
Sidney Paul Ridges|b. 17 Jan 1885\nd. 18 Mar 1887|p1.htm#i13|Joseph Harris Ridges|b. 24 Apr 1827\nd. 7 Mar 1914|p1.htm#i5|Agatha Pratt|b. 7 Jul 1848\nd. 12 Aug 1914|p1.htm#i6|Edward Ridges|b. 5 Sep 1773\nd. 8 Feb 1853|p44.htm#i1299|Rebecca Watson|b. 29 Aug 1795|p44.htm#i1303|Parley P. Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann A. Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|

Birth*17 January 1885 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Death*18 March 1887 1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."

Ann Agatha Walker

F, #14, b. 11 June 1829, d. 25 June 1908

 
 

Father*William Gibson Walker1 b. 7 Jul 1796, d. 11 Mar 1875
Mother*Mary Goodwin1 b. 8 Jul 1798, d. 15 Aug 1851
Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|William Gibson Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|James Walker|b. 22 May 1774\nd. 5 Jan 1859|p52.htm#i1542|Elizabeth Gibson|b. 16 Apr 1774\nd. 24 Jun 1845|p52.htm#i1543|William Goodwin|b. 16 Feb 1771\nd. 11 Jul 1802|p52.htm#i1544|Hannah Booth|b. 28 Apr 1771\nd. 15 Aug 1837|p52.htm#i1545|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree

Birth*11 June 1829 Leek, Staffordshire, England 
Marriage28 April 1847 Winter Quarters, Nebraska, Principal=Parley Parker Pratt2 
Marriage*4 March 1860 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut,
In the pamphlet, "PARLEY P. PRATT HIS TWELVE WIVES" (compiled by Kate B. Carter in 1947, for Daughters of Utah Pioneers) the following is recorded regarding this marriage to Joseph Harris Ridges:
"At the time of Parley P. Pratt's death, Ann Agatha was twenty-eight years old, still a young woman. Three years later she was asked by Joseph Harri Ridges, builder of the Tabernacle Organ, to be his wife. By counsel of President Brigham Young, SHE WAS MARRIED FOR TIME TO MR. RIDGES, MARCH 4, 1860. Two children were born to them--a daughter, Louise, who died in infancy, and a son, Wilford Owen Ridges. Six years after this marriage, January 20, 1866, Joseph Ridges took for his fourth wife, Agatha Pratt, daughter of Ann Agatha. About this time Ann Agatha discontinued living with Joseph Ridges, although there is no record of a divorce."

, 3rd=Joseph Harris Ridges2 
Death*25 June 1908 Ogden, Weber, Utah 
Burial*28 June 1908 City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
**Note* 2 
(Witness) Emigration24 September 1847 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT, with the Daniel Spencer/Peregrine Sessions Company, leaving 18 Jun 1847 from Elkhorn River, Nebraska., Principal=Parley Parker Pratt3 
Census*1850 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah4
Married Name26 February 1851 Pratt5 
Married Name4 March 1860 Ridges6 
HTML* 
her biography.
 
Note* In her history (in "Parley P. Pratt, His Twelve Wives"), she says she was born in Leek, Staffordshire, on Derby Street, above the millinery shop her mother had. Her father was a schoolteacher, and Wesleyan Methodist local preacher. The family moved to Manchester where she attended the school in which her father taught (the sectarian school). Six years later they moved to Pendelton and that was where they first heard the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In this same pamphlet "Parley P. Pratt, His Twelve Wives", compiled in 1947 by Kate B. Carter for the Daughters of Utah Pioneers", on page 242, Ann Agatha Walker Pratt Ridges says, "23 Aug. 1894, Went to the Temple with my sister and daughter Aggie. We went through for the dead. I was endowed for Sally Murdock Pratt. WE THEN WENT TO THE SEALING ROOM AND I, MY SISTERS, MARY AND DORCAS WERE SEALED TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER, AGGIE SETTING FOR MY MOTHER AND BROTHER WM. H. MILES FOR MY FATHER."2 

Family 1

Parley Parker Pratt b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Children

Family 2

Joseph Harris Ridges b. 24 Apr 1827, d. 7 Mar 1914
Children

Last Edited7 Sep 2004

Citations

  1. [S164] Abbie Dutson, "William Gibson Walker Family Group Sheet."
  2. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  3. [S262] Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, online "http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompany/0,15797,4017-1-213,00.html."
  4. [S100] 1850 US Federal Census (online images) Roll M432_919 image 81 p. 41.
  5. [S165] Lawrence J. Dean, "Parley P. Pratt Family Group Sheet."
  6. [S145] Charles E. Dean, "Joseph Harris Ridges Family Group Sheet."
  7. [S79] LDS Family History Library, Agatha Pratt Temple Record; FHL #1761081.
  8. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.

Malona Pratt

F, #15, b. 15 April 1850, d. 27 October 1913

 

Father*Parley Parker Pratt1,2 b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Mother*Ann Agatha Walker3,2 b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Malona Pratt|b. 15 Apr 1850\nd. 27 Oct 1913|p1.htm#i15|Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|William G. Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|

Birth*15 April 1850 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2 
Marriage*11 November 1870 Principal=Elnathan Eldredge3 
Death*27 October 1913 Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Burial*29 October 1913 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut 
Married Name11 November 1870 Eldredge3 

Last Edited5 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  2. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  3. [S165] Lawrence J. Dean, "Parley P. Pratt Family Group Sheet."

Moroni Walker Pratt

M, #16, b. 10 October 1853, d. 28 June 1911

 

Father*Parley Parker Pratt1,2 b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Mother*Ann Agatha Walker3,2 b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Moroni Walker Pratt|b. 10 Oct 1853\nd. 28 Jun 1911|p1.htm#i16|Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|William G. Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|

Birth*10 October 1853 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2 
Marriage*27 April 1874 Principal=Mary Chugg3 
Marriage*7 November 1894 Principal=Mary Owens3 
Death*28 June 1911 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 
Burial*30 June 1911 Fairview, Franklin, ID 

Family

Mary Owens
Child

Last Edited7 Dec 2003

Citations

  1. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  2. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  3. [S165] Lawrence J. Dean, "Parley P. Pratt Family Group Sheet."

Evelyn Pratt

F, #17, b. 8 August 1856, d. 16 August 1917

Father*Parley Parker Pratt1,2 b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Mother*Ann Agatha Walker3,2 b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Evelyn Pratt|b. 8 Aug 1856\nd. 16 Aug 1917|p1.htm#i17|Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|William G. Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|

Birth*8 August 1856 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2 
Marriage*3 November 1873 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut, Principal=Francis Charles Woods 
Death*16 August 1917 Ogden, Weber, Utah1 
Burial*19 August 1917 Ogden, Weber, Utah 
Name Variation Eveline3 
Married Name Woods3 

Last Edited5 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  2. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  3. [S165] Lawrence J. Dean, "Parley P. Pratt Family Group Sheet."

Marion Pratt

M, #18, b. 28 November 1851, d. 6 October 1852

Father*Parley Parker Pratt1,2 b. 12 Apr 1807, d. 13 May 1857
Mother*Ann Agatha Walker3,2 b. 11 Jun 1829, d. 25 Jun 1908
Marion Pratt|b. 28 Nov 1851\nd. 6 Oct 1852|p1.htm#i18|Parley Parker Pratt|b. 12 Apr 1807\nd. 13 May 1857|p1.htm#i1|Ann Agatha Walker|b. 11 Jun 1829\nd. 25 Jun 1908|p1.htm#i14|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|William G. Walker|b. 7 Jul 1796\nd. 11 Mar 1875|p52.htm#i1537|Mary Goodwin|b. 8 Jul 1798\nd. 15 Aug 1851|p52.htm#i1538|

Birth*28 November 1851 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1,2 
Death*6 October 1852 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah1 

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 464.
  2. [S217] Susan Easton Black, Early LDS Membership.
  3. [S165] Lawrence J. Dean, "Parley P. Pratt Family Group Sheet."

Sarah Pratt

F, #19, b. 3 September 1781, d. 1822

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Sarah Pratt|b. 3 Sep 1781\nd. 1822|p1.htm#i19|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*3 September 1781 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*31 December 1798 Principal=Gale Bigelow3 
Burial*1822 4 
Death*1822 4 
Married Name Bigelow 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 149.
  4. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.

Sarah Pratt

F, #20, b. after 1720

Father*David Pratt1 b. Jan 1688
Mother*Sarah Chalker1 b. 31 Jan 1697
Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|David Pratt|b. Jan 1688|p2.htm#i53|Sarah Chalker|b. 31 Jan 1697|p2.htm#i54|Samuel Pratt|b. 6 Oct 1655\nd. 1705|p22.htm#i631|Elizabeth Peck|b. 9 Sep 1669\nd. 29 Aug 1688|p9.htm#i242|Lt. Abraham Chalker|b. 19 Oct 1655\nd. 17 Feb 1731|p10.htm#i275|Deborah Barber|b. c 1670\nd. 17 Oct 1753|p10.htm#i273|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree
Parley P. Pratt Pedigree

Birth*after 1720 1,2 
Marriage*14 June 1739 Wallingford, New Haven, CT, Groom=Christopher Pratt3,4 
Married Name Jones 
Married Name Brocket 

Family

Christopher Pratt b. 14 Nov 1712
Children

Last Edited5 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 234.
  2. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  3. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 458.
  4. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 142.

Rhoda Pratt

F, #21, b. 30 May 1775, d. 1 November 1849

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Rhoda Pratt|b. 30 May 1775\nd. 1 Nov 1849|p1.htm#i21|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*30 May 1775 Canaan, Columbia, NY2 
Marriage*September 1793 Principal=Levi Bonney3 
Death*1 November 1849 4 
Burial*November 1849 4 
Married Name Bonney 

Last Edited13 Mar 2008

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 148.
  4. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.

Charity Dickinson

F, #22, b. 24 February 1776, d. 20 May 1849

Father*Samuel Dickinson1,2 b. c 1753, d. bt 1810 - 1814
Mother*Huldah Griffith1 b. 26 Dec 1755, d. c 1783
Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|Samuel Dickinson|b. c 1753\nd. bt 1810 - 1814|p6.htm#i164|Huldah Griffith|b. 26 Dec 1755\nd. c 1783|p6.htm#i163|Christopher Dickinson|b. 24 May 1729|p6.htm#i165|Mary Cole|b. c 1730|p6.htm#i169|Elnathan Griffith|b. 9 Feb 1725\nd. c 1795|p7.htm#i182|Patience Burr|b. 9 Mar 1729|p7.htm#i183|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree
Parley P. Pratt Pedigree

Birth*24 February 1776 Canaan, Columbia, New York1 
Marriage*7 July 1799 2nd=Jared Pratt3,1 
Marriage*circa 21 January 1846 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, 3rd=Cornelius Peter Lott4 
Death*20 May 1849 St. Joseph, Buchanan, MO, of cholera5,1 
Burial*May 1849 St. Joseph, Buchanan, MO5 
Married Name7 July 1799 Pratt3,1 

Family

Jared Pratt b. 25 Nov 1769, d. 5 Nov 1839
Children

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S49] Archibald F. Bennett, Finding Your Forefathers in America, p. 209.
  2. [S281] Marston Watson, Reverend Francis Marbury, p. 211.
  3. [S6] Pratt Family Biographies, online http://jared.pratt-family.org/histories/…
  4. [S102] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  5. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 461.

William Pratt

M, #23, b. 21 May 1777, d. 7 February 1823

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
William Pratt|b. 21 May 1777\nd. 7 Feb 1823|p1.htm#i23|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*21 May 1777 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*4 November 1798 Principal=Zilpha Smith3 
Death*7 February 1823 3 
Occupation* Farmer4 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 148.
  4. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 149.

Christopher Pratt

M, #24, b. 14 November 1712

Father*Ensign William Pratt1 b. c 1674
Mother*Hannah Hough1 b. 1 Apr 1683
Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Ensign William Pratt|b. c 1674|p4.htm#i92|Hannah Hough|b. 1 Apr 1683|p2.htm#i48|Joseph Pratt|b. 1 Aug 1648\nd. 12 Aug 1703|p2.htm#i37|Margaret Parker|b. 1650\nd. c 1686|p9.htm#i264|Jonathan Hough|b. 7 Feb 1659/60|p5.htm#i123|Margaret Orvis|b. Jun 1661\nd. b 6 Apr 1694|p546.htm#i16362|

ChartsWinifred Dean Pedigree
Parley P. Pratt Pedigree

Birth*14 November 1712 Saybrook, Middlesex, CT2,3 
Marriage*14 June 1739 Wallingford, New Haven, CT, 1st=Sarah Pratt2,4 
Death* Wallingford, New Haven, CT4 
Note* 5 

Family

Sarah Pratt b. a 1720
Children

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 139.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 458.
  3. [S42] Saybrook Vital Records (published), p. 36.
  4. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 142.
  5. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  6. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 237.

Ellis Pratt

F, #25, b. 10 October 1789, d. 15 October 1789

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Ellis Pratt|b. 10 Oct 1789\nd. 15 Oct 1789|p1.htm#i25|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*10 October 1789 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Death*15 October 1789 Canaan, Columbia, NY2 
Name Variation Ellen Pratt3 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.

Allen Pratt

M, #26, b. 13 May 1793

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Allen Pratt|b. 13 May 1793|p1.htm#i26|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*13 May 1793 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*27 February 1811 Bride=Betsey Palmiter3 
Marriage*21 September 1848 Bride=Mary Chapman3 
Burial*11 August 1882 4 
Occupation* a carpenter3 

Last Edited28 Dec 2006

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 150.
  4. [S106] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File", Ancestral File.

Obadiah Pratt

M, #27, b. 30 July 1784, d. 17 September 1810

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Obadiah Pratt|b. 30 Jul 1784\nd. 17 Sep 1810|p1.htm#i27|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*30 July 1784 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*1804 Principal=(?) Lydia Conant3 
Death*17 September 1810 Canaan, Columbia, NY, "from overexertion after running after his swine."4 
Occupation* a farmer4 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  4. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 150.

Barnabas Pratt

M, #28, b. 4 March 1771, d. 5 May 1795

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Barnabas Pratt|b. 4 Mar 1771\nd. 5 May 1795|p1.htm#i28|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*4 March 1771 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*1794 Principal=Phebe Bennet3 
Death*5 May 1795 New Lebanon, NY, . He was killed in a wrestling match.3 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 148.

Ira Pratt

M, #29, b. 10 October 1789, d. 1864

Father*Obadiah Pratt1 b. 14 Sep 1742, d. 2 Mar 1797
Mother*Jemima Tolles1 b. 11 Aug 1754, d. 24 Nov 1812
Ira Pratt|b. 10 Oct 1789\nd. 1864|p1.htm#i29|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Christopher Pratt|b. 14 Nov 1712|p1.htm#i24|Sarah Pratt|b. a 1720|p1.htm#i20|Ebenezer Tolles|b. c 1709\nd. a 1762|p3.htm#i65|Sarah Sperry|b. 23 Apr 1721|p3.htm#i66|

Birth*10 October 1789 Canaan, Columbia, NY2,1 
Marriage*circa 1809 Principal=Jerusha Woodward3 
Death*1864 4 
Census1850*1850 Sodus, Wayne, New York, household member=Jerusha Woodward, household member=Louisa Pratt5 

Family

Jerusha Woodward b. 1791
Child

Last Edited27 Dec 2006

Citations

  1. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 144.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 460.
  3. [S57] Rev. F. W. Chapman, Pratt Family, p. 150.
  4. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
  5. [S100] 1850 US Federal Census (online images) New York, Wayne Co, Sodus.

Orson Pratt

M, #30, b. 19 September 1811, d. 3 October 1881

 
 

Father*Jared Pratt1 b. 25 Nov 1769, d. 5 Nov 1839
Mother*Charity Dickinson1 b. 24 Feb 1776, d. 20 May 1849
Orson Pratt|b. 19 Sep 1811\nd. 3 Oct 1881|p1.htm#i30|Jared Pratt|b. 25 Nov 1769\nd. 5 Nov 1839|p2.htm#i39|Charity Dickinson|b. 24 Feb 1776\nd. 20 May 1849|p1.htm#i22|Obadiah Pratt|b. 14 Sep 1742\nd. 2 Mar 1797|p2.htm#i40|Jemima Tolles|b. 11 Aug 1754\nd. 24 Nov 1812|p2.htm#i32|Samuel Dickinson|b. c 1753\nd. bt 1810 - 1814|p6.htm#i164|Huldah Griffith|b. 26 Dec 1755\nd. c 1783|p6.htm#i163|

Birth*19 September 1811 Hartford, Washington, NY2,1 
Marriage*4 July 1836 Principal=Sarah Marinda Bates3 
Marriage*27 March 1845 Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, Principal=Mary Ann Merrill3 
Death*3 October 1881 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah3 
Burial*6 October 1881 City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah3 
HTML* 
History of Orson Pratt,
Utah History Encyclopedia,


a sermon by Orson

Jared Pratt Family Organization Orson pages,
 

Last Edited6 Aug 2004

Citations

  1. [S49] Archibald F. Bennett, Finding Your Forefathers in America, p. 209.
  2. [S5] Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 461.
  3. [S241] Marie Dean Speakman, 2003.
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