Elnor was born to Sarah Ferdon Syphers and William Henry Earl Jr. in Canada. Her family eventually migrated to Logan in the Cache Valley of Utah Territory.
She was first married to Peter V. Lemon in Canada about 1838 and they immigrated to Nauvoo, Hancock Illinois where a son, George Washington Lemon was born in 1841. Her husband must have been a polygamist, as a first wife was having children in Illinois at approximately the same period of time.
Elinore's parents were also in the Nauvoo region at that time and it seems she left her husband and perhaps lived with them before marrying a second time in 1846 to Justus A. Morse.
They had two daughters (the second died an infant in Missouri) before departing for the Great Salt Lake Valley in a company of Latter-day Saint Church members, led by her husband. There were 55 individuals in the Justus Morse Company that departed 20 June 1850.
Justus later became a member of a splinter group of "Mormons" known as the "reorganized RLDS" Church of Christ and after migrating to California, Elinore returned to Utah Territory with the Amasa M. Lyman/Charles C. Rich Wagon Company in 1857.
She and her son, George Washington Lemon, settled at Willard, Box Elder County and, about winter of 1883, she married twice widowed Ashael Thorn.
She died 9 October and was buried 11 October 1888 at the Salt lake City Cemetery.
Elnor was born to Sarah Ferdon Syphers and William Henry Earl Jr. in Canada. Her family eventually migrated to Logan in the Cache Valley of Utah Territory.
She was first married to Peter V. Lemon in Canada about 1838 and they immigrated to Nauvoo, Hancock Illinois where a son, George Washington Lemon was born in 1841. Her husband must have been a polygamist, as a first wife was having children in Illinois at approximately the same period of time.
Elinore's parents were also in the Nauvoo region at that time and it seems she left her husband and perhaps lived with them before marrying a second time in 1846 to Justus A. Morse.
They had two daughters (the second died an infant in Missouri) before departing for the Great Salt Lake Valley in a company of Latter-day Saint Church members, led by her husband. There were 55 individuals in the Justus Morse Company that departed 20 June 1850.
Justus later became a member of a splinter group of "Mormons" known as the "reorganized RLDS" Church of Christ and after migrating to California, Elinore returned to Utah Territory with the Amasa M. Lyman/Charles C. Rich Wagon Company in 1857.
She and her son, George Washington Lemon, settled at Willard, Box Elder County and, about winter of 1883, she married twice widowed Ashael Thorn.
She died 9 October and was buried 11 October 1888 at the Salt lake City Cemetery.
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