Entries by Jeff Westover

The Small World of the 1800s

Over the weekend on Facebook I posted a quote from the Journals of Albert Smith. Even though I have tried to keep things here so far focused on those directly related to William and Ruth so as to engage as many family members as we can I cannot keep from sharing those things I’m seeing […]

Electa’s Letter

With this post announcing the video about Mother Electa Beal Westover it was quite exciting to me to announce the availability of a PDF copy of a letter Electa wrote in 1880 to William Ruthven Westover, her grandson. That PDF is now part of the document archives here. In 1880 William would have been 19 […]

Was it one of the Three Nephites?

Today we uploaded the full life sketch of Ann Findley Westover, the plural wife of Edwin Westover who lived the majority of her life near where I reside now in Cache Valley, Utah. She is known to most of our family as the mother of William Ruthven Westover. Hers is a must-read story and logged […]

Mother Electa

Having just added Electa Beal Westover’s profile to the site we felt this was a good time as well to debut a video that can be shared about her. Electa is a key individual in the story of several generations of 20th century Westovers. Her sweeping tale is caught up in the migration of Latter-day […]

The Epic Life of Jonas Westover

In studying ancestors of our family past I have made it a practice to also take in as much history of their environment as I can. Knowing local histories not only provides clues on where to find additional family members but they go far to explain why folks moved around like they did and even […]