672. The Real Reason the Pioneers Came West, and a pioneer story of one of my husband Wayne's ancestors from England.
This is a very interesting article, about pioneers wanting to go to "Zion". I'm also going to post some about my pioneer ancestors. I know that my own pioneer ancestors came for that reason, after having been persecuted a lot in Nauvoo, and other early settlements of the Saints. I'll put more of our family pioneer stories on very soon. The Real Reason the Pioneers Came West By Maurine Proctor · July 21, 2016 Image by Clark Kelley Price. It was a September day in 1842 when George and Ann Quayle Cannon stood with their six children on the windswept dock at Liverpool ready to board the great ship Sidney for America. Crowds of emigrants thronged the gangplank, worried over details, and clutched a few remnants of the home they were about to leave behind. They carried boxes, beds, and assorted bundles. Some had cabbages, some cheese, some bread and butter stored in tins. Like so many others, the Cann...