William Henry Harrison Heap
William Henry Harrison Heap is my great-great-great grandfather, born in Indiana in 1838. His father, William Heap, came to America with his parents in 1819 from Liverpool, England. His mother, Margaret Beesley, daughter of Joseph Beesley and Rebecca Herrod from Lancshire, Englad came to America around 1830. His mother Margaret had heard and accepted the Gospel in Indiana in 1844, although none of her family joined with her.
William didn't join the Church until after his marriage to Sarah Ann Marsh in 1867 in Salt Lake. He had come West in 1866 with an Ox Team Company. They met at a dance at Blackrock, Utah (located on the bank of the Great Salt Lake) and were later sealed in the Endowment House.
Almost immediately after William and Sarah were married, they were sent by Brigham Young to Dixie, in Southern Utah to help settle that section of the state. They left Dixie six years later because of sickness and moved to Bear Lake, Idaho. William and Sarah moved several times with the last move being to Thayne, Wyoming where they are buried.
Sarah Ann Marsh
Sarah Ann Marsh is my great-great-great grandmother, born in 1852 in Salt Lake. Her gospel heritage appears to go back a few generations, beginning with her grandparents Sarah Searcy and James J Miller. I cannot find an account of their conversion, although James is believed to have died while working on the Nauvoo temple. I also found a record of their daughter Martha Ann Miller remembering being taught by the prophet Joseph Smith. Martha crossed the plains in 1852 with the early Utah pioneers and settled in Star Valley, Wyoming in 1879 where she died. This is the heritage of Sarah Ann Marsh, and therefore my own, for which I am grateful.
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