Children not linked: Enos Leroy Curtis, John B Curtis, Emmeline E Curtis

Emmeline Buchanan Curtis was the fourth child born to John Buchanan III and Nancy Ann Bach, on March 4, 1820 in Mercer, Kentucky. John and Nancy Ann Became the parents of six children all of them born in Lexington, Mercer, Kentucky.
When Emmeline was ten years old she moved with her family to Illinois and it was here that they first heard the gospel. She was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with other members of her family on September 8, 1835. In 1937 they joined the Saints in Caldwell
County, Missouri, where they passed through much persecution and many hardships with other members of the Church living there.
They were finally driven out of the state of Missouri by mob violence and returned to Lima, Illinois and settled there for a time. It was here that Emmeline's father, John Buchanan died in 1839 from exposure and the hardship they had to endure from the mobs.
After John's death Nancy Ann was left with a large family to care for. Her daughter Jane was married to Alexander Davis in 1831, and her second daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Joseph Coolidge in 1935. But five children were still at home, Emmeline age 19, John age 12, Mary Ann age 10, Archibald, age 7 and Martha Marie age 4.
The next year when Emmeline was twenty years old she married Simmons Philander Curtis on July 4, 1840 in Nauvoo, Illinois. The ceremony was performed by Seymour Brunson.
Their first child Martha Jane was born the next year in Quincy, Illinois. Another child, Enos Leroy Curtis was born in Quincy on November 20, 1843, but he lived only a few months.
Emmeline's widowed mother Nancy Ann and her remaining children were settled in Isaac Morley's settlement at Yelrome, Hanocock, Illinois.
Emmeline and her husband Simmons Curtis joined her mother and family at Yelrome and it was here that Emmeline's son, John B Curtis, was born May 13, 1845, but he lived only a short time.
In September 1845, the settlement of Yelrome was destroyed by mobs. The houses, Cooper's shop, property and grain were burned and the families were forced to take refuge in Nauvoo.
Before being driven out of the Nauvoo, Simmons and Emeline Curtis received there endowment in the Nauvoo Temple on January 11, 1846.
Simmons, Emeline, and their daughter Martha Jane traveled with Grandma Nancy Ann and her family,
John, Mary Ann, Archibald, and Martha Maria, to Winter Quarters in Iowa. It was here that Emmeline's brother, John Buchanan joined the Mormon Battalion and the family postponed their departure to the west until John's return from the Battalion.
While in Council Bluffs, Emmeline and Simmons were blessed with another son, Simmons Franklin Curtis, who was born October 9, 1847, and on Jun 27, 1851 a baby girl was born, also at Council Bluffs. She was named Mary Ann.
When John Buchanan was discharged the family traveled to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
Emmeline's mother Nancy Ann, and the rest of the Buchanan family traveled to Manti were they settled.
Emmeline and Simmons settled in Springville along with Simmons father Enos Curtis and his family.
Four more children were born to Emmeline and Enos, Joseph August Curtis November 24, 1853, Emmeline Elizabeth November 23, 1856, Nancy Elnora, February 27 1860, and Harmon W, January 20 1863. Their daughter, Emeline Elizabeth died March 10, 1866.
Simmons married a second wife on March 7, 1870.
In 1873 Emmeline separated from her husband, and she and her younger children, Nancy and Harmon moved to Fountain Green Utah to be near her older daughter, Martha Jane Miles.
Later Emmeline moved to Woodside in Emery County, where he son Joseph Augustus and his wife lived.
Emmeline died at age 64, on November 4, 1884 and is buried at Woodside, Utah.

Taken from history written by Karen Baldwin Williams