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Birth Date
18 June 1815
Death Date
18 October 1855
Gender
Male
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John Lovern

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  • Evidence from genealogical, land, and church records proves that the John Lovern family came to Utah in 1852.  They appear on the 1850 Iowa census, had a child born 28 April 1852 in Iowa and appear in the Salt Lake 9th Ward records in December 1852.  John also purchased property in Salt Lake 18 April 1853, which was prior to the arrival of that season's emigration.  Further research is needed to determine the name of the company they traveled with.

     John died in 1855 in Salt Lake, and apparently the remaining family left Utah soon after his death because their names do not appear on any Utah census.

Company Unknown (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 36
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Nancy Lucinda Lovern (Age: 36)
  • Nancy Frances Lovern (Age: 12)
  • John Norris Lovern (Age: 9)
  • Wesley Norton Lovern (Age: 4)
  • Lucinda Adelaide Lovern (Age: 2)
  • Josiah Lovern (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.