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  • Name PIERCE, George Francis 
    Birth 7 Jan 1829  Maidstone, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    WAC 19 Jun 1871  EHOUS Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Death 29 Nov 1897  Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 1 Dec 1897  Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I20700  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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    Family ID F11158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family CAMPBELL, Nancy Elizabeth ,   b. 8 Jun 1835, Wayland, Steuben, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationWayland, Steuben, New York, United Statesd. 30 Dec 1890, Promontory, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 31 Oct 1856 
    Family ID F10964  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2022 

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    • George Pierce
      George Pierce was born 7 Jan 1829 (or in Pioneers and Prominent Men of UT, 20 Jan 1828) in Maidstone, Kent, England, the son of Thomas Pierce and Mary Butler. His father died from a fall from a cherry tree in 1831. His mom took her young son to Palmyra, New York. He spent his young boyhood there. Later he moved to Pennsylvania where he worked as an errand boy in a drug store. He married Nancy Campbell Oct 31, 1856 in Liberty, PA. They had 2 sons. In 1861 Nancy and George divorced and he moved to Michigan where he heard Mormon Elders preaching the gospel. He was baptized in 1857 and immigrated to Ogden, Utah in the Captain James Brown Company.
      George understood the valuable us of herb and how to cook them. He made a salve that was very helpful for infectious sores and bruises. In September 1863, he called at the home of the Romriell family to doctor their horses who had cut their legs in some barbwire, and to sell the family herbs and salve. There he met Jane Nancy Romriell Hammond. She was too busy dancing to be interested in George. After the horses were well, he still kept call at the home. One evening while sitting he wondered how he could keep her from going out with a friend. She was very popular since she was a good dancer and good company. Then he noticed her shoes by his chair and decided since all is fair in love and war, he would hide her shoes down the trap door leading to the cellar. When Jane had looked all over for her shoes and couldn’t find them, she stayed home since it was her only pair of shoes.
      In 20 September 1863 they were married. They had a nice farm. Both of them had green thumbs. Jane’s flowers were the most beautiful; George’s apples, corn, and pumpkins were outstanding. He converted sugar cane into molasses. He continued to help the sick and became good friends with the Indians. He believed it was better to help them than to fight them. He fed and doctored many of them who came to his door.
      They had 8 children: Caroline Sophia, George Thomas, Eliza Rebecca, Franklin, Elizabeth, Porter Marion, Frederick Abraham, and Bertha. George also raised Jane’s 2 Hammond daughters Mary Jane and Tillie. George was very much loved by all who knew him. His home was in the farming center. Later they built a 6 room home with a beautiful orchard and gardens.
      When the pierces had been married and had 2 children, they wanted to go to the temple. Jane had been sealed to Joseph Hammond in the old Endowment House. They went to Brigham Young, who gave them permission to go to the Salt Lake Temple. Records show they were sealed for time and all eternity on 19 Jun 1871. Jane was expecting another child at the time. Eliza R. Snow was in the endowment room. She asked Jane to call her daughter after her, Eliza and Jane promised to do so. On 31 October, Eliza R. Pierce was born.
      In 1898 George developed a bad cold, pneumonia settled in and he passed away. Jane lived until 9 February 1909. They had seen all their children settled in comfortable homes. They were able to give all of their children a home or some land on which to build their houses.


      George Francis Pierce was born January 7, 1829 at Maidstone, Kent, England, the son of Thomas Pierce and Mary Butler. He had two sisters. His father died when he was about two years old. His mother married again when George was about eleven years old. The family sailed to America somewhere between 1841 and 1845. The family ended up in Wayne County, New York. For a time the family lived in Palmyra, New York near the Hill Cumorah where the Latter-day Saint prophet, Joseph Smith, received the golden plates from the Angel Moroni. George spent part of his boyhood days near this sacred spot.

      Later George went south across the boarder to Pennsylvania where he worked as an errand boy for a drug store. Here he picked up valuable information on mixing medicines and salves. In Pennsylvania he heard Mormon Elders preaching the Gospel and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was baptized in 1856.



      That same year George married Nancy Campbell on October 31, 1856 at Liberty, McKean, Pennsylvania. There were born to them two sons--Francis Marion Pierce, May 1, 1857; and Thomas Caton Pierce, born May 1859 (died May 8, 1861). George and Nancy separated and were divorced. He joined the Mormon immigrants and came to Ogden, Utah in Captain Brown's Company. (George's mother and sister, Sarah, remained in Wayne County, New York [where their husband's farmed] the rest of their lives.



      George filled an honorable LDS mission in New York. On his return to Utah he brought many valuable papers and news from the East. At that time there was no communication with the East, only by Pony Express. If during this mission he tried to persuade his family into accepting his new faith, it appears he was unsuccessful.



      Out west George had many experiences with the Indians, who were sometimes friendly and sometimes hostile. George understood the valuable use of herbs, how to cook them, and the usefulness in case of illness. He made a salve that was very helpful for infected sores and bruises.



      In September 1863 George met and married Jane Nancy Romriell Hammond. He was her second husband. Her first husband, John Joseph Hammond, left her a widow with a child after only two years of marriage. She did not know that she was expecting another child when he died. Matilda was born eight months after John Hammond died. Jane supported herself and her daughters by gleaning wheat in the field before her marriage to George Pierce. He cared for her little girls as though they were his own. She was sealed to George Pierce in the Endowment House on June 19, 1871, as were her two daughters by John Hammond.



      They made their home in North Ogden where they kept a grocery store. Later they moved to a farm on West 2nd Street known as Bingham's Fort. This fort was built with a high wall to protect the settlers from the Indians. Here they reared their family. Jane and George had eight children as follows:

      Caroline Sophia, born September 4, 1867

      George Thomas, born December 16, 1869

      Eliza Rebecca, born October 31, 1871

      Benjamin Franklin, born September 9, 1873

      Elizabeth, born and died October 8, 1875

      Porter Marion, born September 21, 1877 (He was excommunicated from the Church June 4, 1923 and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses and never returned to the Mormon Church)

      Frederick Abraham, born December 15, 1879

      Bertha, born November 22, 1881, died August 11, 1882



      George Pierce died a faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on November 29, 1897 in Ogden, Utah. He was sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death. He died of Pneumonia.