HISTORY OF RALPH NEPHI ROWLEY (Cont.) They (Mary Ann Thompson and Ralph Nephi, John Thompson, Hugh Thompson and Ephraim George Rowley) joined and made the journey with the first company of the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company which started across the plains June 1, 1852 under the command of Abraham Owen Smoot, Captain and Chris Layton, […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY OF RALPH NEPHI ROWLEY, WRITTEN BY HIS SON, GEORGE ARTHUR ROWLEY My father, Ralph Nephi Rowley, was born April 1, 1824, at Handley, North Staffordshire, England. My mother Mary Ann Thompson Rowley was born on July 14, 1925 at Glasgow, Scotland. Father, Ralph, and Mother, Mary Ann, were married at Glasgow, Scotland. Father, Ralph, […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerHISTORY SUBMITTED FOR PRINTING IN THE FIRST ROWLEY FAMILY PAPER BY HISTORIAN, Luella Jones Downard In this the charter paper we feel that the first history given should be the work of our first history writer, Uncle George Arthur Rowley. To print the story just as Uncle George wrote it is the highest tribute we […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerTable of Contents History Pages 2-4 Family News Pages 4-5 Research Pages 5-6 List of Reporters Pages 6-7 Editor’s Comments Pages 7-8 Misc […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerEDITORIAL We feel proud and thankful of our family name and heritage; it is a name that has come down to us through our fathers, men who were good, and tried in their way to do what was right. Though human and capable of error, they have left us a heritage for which we should […]
Read More John Rowley and Sarah Wright Family MessengerMESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT, It is really a privilege to be able to write a few lines in the first edition of our family paper, and to greet all the descendants of Grandfather John Rowley and Grandmother Sarah Wright. I do hope it will be accepted into the homes in the spirit for which it […]
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