...I am working on the records of Elizabeth Price 1796-1860, John Wriston cliffordm 1790-1860.
After reading this paper (Information #1) I began a theory that Elizabeth was married to three men.
John Phillip Clifford (information #2)
John Henry Wriston (information#3(
William Dempsey May (QUESTION)
INFORMATION #1
"There is a strong tradition in the Clifford family that a certain John Clifford from England was a carpenter. While working at his trade he was killed by a fall from a roof. He left a widow with several small children. John’s widow later married a man by the name of Riston or Wriston. Her children by John Clifford took the Riston name as did their descendants,, and they used this name for at least three generations before they again began to use the Clifford name.
After the Clifford or Wriston family came to Utah they told Brigham Young that their real name was Clifford. It may be that Tilman Clifford made that statement because Brigham Young personally sealed Tilman to his wives in 1851 in the Endowment House (actually Brigham Young’s office). Brigham Young advised them to start using the Clifford name, but it was not until 1855 that any of the family began to use the Clifford name. All the early 1851 sealings, all priesthood ordinations and even Patriarchal Blessings given at Brigham City by Isaac Morley in April 1855 were in the name of Wriston. John Price and Isaac Newton were in the Mormon Battalion under the Wriston name. In fact, John Price had a difficult time to remember the Clifford name. As late as 1881 he filed a mineral claim in Cache County Utah under the name of John Price Wriston. The 1850 census of Utah taken in 1851 lists the family as Wriston."
INFORMATION #2
Many searches on Geni, Ancestry, Family search have come with this name. and other variances'.
INFORMATION #3
Many searches on Geni, Ancestry, Family search have come with this name. and other variances'.
QUESTION
May I have the references you have for
Husband
John Henry Wriston Clifford
Husband
William Dempsey May
Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome
Thank you
S
