Zerah (Zera) Pulsipher was born 24 Jun 1788 in Rockingham, Windham, Vermont, the son of John & Elizabeth Dutton Pulsipher. He married Mary Randall 6 Nov 1810 in VT with whom he had a daughter, Harriet. Mary died in 1811. (Harriet married Hiram Pickett, and died in WI). Zera then married Mary Ann Brown 18 Aug 1815 in Sesquehannah, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of eleven children: Mary Ann, Iona Almira, Nelson, Mariah, Sarah Ann, John, Charles, Mary Ann, William, Eliza Jane & Fidelia Pulsipher.

Zera practiced polygamy, marrying Prudence McNamara 8 Jul 1854, with whom he had no children. He married Martha Ann Hughes 18 Ma 1857 in Salt Lake City, with whom he had five children: Martha Ann, Mary Elizabeth, Zera James, Sarah Jane & Andrew Milton Pulsipher.

Zera died 1 Jan 1872 in Hebron, Utah at 84 years of age.