Sylvester Henry EARL

Sources:

Schyr County Marriage License
Diary of S. H. Earl
Diary of Joseph I. Earl
St. George Cemetery and Temple Records
Pine Valley Ward Records #6467 p.16; #6164 Pt.2
Seventies Record #1656
1870 Census Utah
Early Church Record File #24739, p.288, Nauvoo Seventies
Utah Pub. A p.243, Pioneers of 1850
Ref. 92905 Ut. 1, p.136, Utah Hist. Gen. Reg
1851 Census of SLC, desc. of John Owen, 929.270 W. 20 p.62, #1131 p.294, 19th Ward SLC
1998 Ancestral File - nil
1997 Ordinance Index (nil)
Susan Easton Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840-1845 (FHL#977.343/N1 K2be) v.2
Family Records of Robert Earl Wells

Notes:

                   NOTES:
      1. Sylvester Henry Earl was sealed to Betsy Ann Owen (4) 9 April 1879 - sister to Lois Caroline Owen - B. 1822 - Schuyler Co., Ill. Bp. 17 Feb 1870; End. 20Feb. 1879; died 1844.
      2. Sylvester Henry Earl sealed to Hannah Taylor (5) 23 May 1879 - Proxys: Margaret E. Jones Earl and Thomas Franklin Earl.
      3. Sylvester Henry Earl sealed to Mary Jones (3) 7 December 1877 - Proxys: Margaret E. Jones Earl and Thomas Franklin Earl.
      4. Sylvester Henry Earl and Lois Caroline Owen got their marriage license 28January 1839 and were married 30 January 1839.

Sylvester Henry Earl married Lois Caroline Owen 1839 in Schuyler County, Ohio.  He met and baptized her on one of his missions and returned a year or more later to marry her.  They moved to Nauvoo.  He was present at the meeting and saw Brigham Young transformed into Joseph Smith, indicating to him and others present that it was the senior apostle who should become the next Prophet and President, and not the first counselor in the First Presidency nor anyone else.  After the exodus from Nauvoo and at Winter Quarters, he was chosen by Brigham Young to be one of the first party to cross the plains to the Salt Lake Valley.  He is listed on the back of the bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Brigham Young at the top of Main Street and South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, and again at the "This Is the Place" monument at the mouth of Emigration Canyon.  He entered the valley July 24th, 1847.  He was sent to England as a missionary.  1861 he was sent to settle Dixie (St. George) with the cotton/silk mission.  He settled first in Pine Valley and had a part interest in the saw mill there.  He also had a water wheel driven wood lathe with which to make dowels for chairs and banisters.  He was a bishop in Pine Valley.  His photo is in the little room at the top of the Chapel in Pine Valley.  Later he moved to Santa Clara, and may have been in Bunkerville.  He was buried in St. George.  He had a second wife, Margaret Emily Jones.