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Peter Shumway, a Huguenot, fled France to America about 1660 to escape religious persecution. Two centuries later, his descendant Charles Shumway, fled with the Mormom pioneers to western America for the same reason. He had 21 children who reared families, and 201 grandchildren. This book documents his large family, and his contributions as an American pioneer.
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Peter Shumway/Pierre Chamois/Chomway (1635-1695) immigrated from France about 1655. He was in Massachusetts by 1675. Charles Shumway (1806-1898) was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, married Julia Ann Hooker in 1832, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841 and migrated to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He also married Louisa Minnerly, Henrietta Bird and Elizabeth Jardine. Descendants lived throughout the United States.
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Jesse Nathaniel Smith, a cousin to the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr., came to Utah in the Mormon migration of 1847, farming in Davis County until 1851, then moving to Parowan. He became the husband of five wives, who bore him a total of 44 children. In 1878, LDS Church leaders called him to preside over the Eastern Arizona Stake; he lived with his large family in Snowflake, Arizona, until his death in 1906. The posterity of Jesse N. Smith are listed in this volume, which includes biographical sketches of each of his five wives, 44 children and their spouses.
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