Eunice Reasor

• Daughter of Frederick Reasor and Sarah Kester
• Eunice Reasor was born 4 March 1808 in Shelby County, Kentucky. She married James Polly Brown (born 22 April 1803), on 14 April 1826, in Floyd County, Indiana. They had 9 children. They were called to military duty, and marched with the Mormon Battalion. They migrated to Utah with the Latter-day Saints, and settled in Manti, Sanpete, Utah. She died 18 July 1858, and is buried in the Manti Cemetery.
• Eunice Reasor was born on 4 March 1808 in Renbrely, Shelby, Kentucky
• Death Date 18 July 1858 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States
• Eunice Brown (Reasor) - Billion Graves Memorial

Married

• Married: James Polly Brown. Manti Ward records place her in that area at the time of a rebaptism on 25 March 1855.
• James and Eunice Brown received their blessings in the [LDS] Nauvoo Temple the 3 February 1846.

Immigration

• Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847), Age at Departure: 39

History

Eunice Reasor Brown Birth Date, 4 March 1808, Death Date 18 July 1858, Gender Female.

Feedback: She was the wife of James Polly Brown. Manti Ward records place her in that area at the time of a rebaptism on 25 March 1855.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847), Age at Departure: 39 Sources, Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892. , Manti Ward, Record of Members. CR 375 8, Reel 3954.

Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 233-34.

Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 31.

Eunice Reasor was born March 4, 1808 in Renbrely, Shelby County, Kentucky, to Frederick Reasor and Sarah Kester. As a youth she was a member of the Baptist Church.

In about 1824, at age 16, Eunice moved with her family to Floyd County, Indiana. Two years later she met and married James Polly Brown on April 13, 1826, also in Greenville, Floyd County, Indiana.

She and her husband were prosperous farmers for a number of years in Indiana.

In about 1843, they joined the Mormon Church. Their eldest son, William, had been impressed by the missionaries and brought them home to talk with his parents. They then moved to Fredericktown, Missouri and Macoupin County, Illinois to be closer to the saints.

They were driven out of Nauvoo in 1846, along with the other saints, eventually landing in Council Bluffs, Iowa or Winter Quarters, Nebraska, on the west side of the Missouri River.

Eunice and her children accompanied James in the Mormon Battalion that was formed at Council Bluffs in the Spring of 1846. They served as cooks and laundresses and camp followers.

The Brown family was then sent from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Pueblo, Colorado with a group of sick saints. They spent the winter in Pueblo.

In the spring of 1847 the Pueblo Saints headed for Salt Lake City, to join the Brigham Young group. Eunice gave birth to a son, John Taylor Brown about 8 days into the journey. Little John was the first white child born in the Colorado Territory.

The Pueblo Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 5 days after the Brigham Young group.

They helped build the first fort in Utah Territory and helped to set up the irrigation system. They also witnessed the miracles of the crickets and the seagulls in 1848.

In 1849 the family was called to settle in Manti, which they did. Eunice bore a daughter about a month after arriving in Manti. That first winter in Manti was brutal. Many died. They lived in their wagon.

In those first years in Manti, they had to deal with bad weather, rattlesnakes and Indians. But they survived.

They also adopted an Indian child during this time.

Eunice died on July 18, 1858 in Manti, after several months of affliction. She was a good and faithful woman.

Residents

• Residence: Floyd County, Indiana, United States
• Residence: Moved to Greenville, Indiana in 1824 Greenville, Wells, Indiana, United States
• Residence: May 11 1832 in Greenville, Floyd, Indiana, United States
• Residence: Moved to Macoupin County, Illinois in 1843 in Macoupin, Illinois, United States
• Residence: Moved to Fredericktown, Missouri in 1843 in Fredericktown, Madison, Missouri, United States
• Residence: Moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• Residence: Arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah in July 29 1847 in Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Residence: Arrived in Manti, Utah in Nov 22 1849 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States
• Residence: 1851 in Manti, Sanpete, Utah

Sources

• Indiana Marriages, 1802-1892. , Manti Ward, Record of Members. CR 375 8, Reel 3954.
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 233-34.
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 31.