Abel Weaver Garr |
Abel Weaver Garr<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Dec 11 1833<br>Father: Fielding Garr<br>Mother: Pauline Paulina Garr (born Turner)<br>Wife: Eliza Ann Stevenson<br>Children: Abel GarrCaroline GarrWeaver Garr<br>Siblings: Richard Rue GarrAbraham GarrCarolyn Caroline Martin GarrMary Virginia GarrNancy GarrEliza Jane GarrJohn Turner GarrSara Ann GarrBenjamin Franklin GarrWilliam Henry Garr
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Abel Weaver Garr<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Dec 11 1833 - Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, USA <br>Marriage: Spouse: Mariah Laura Pitkin - Nov 18 1860 - Millville, Cache, Utah, USA <br>Marriage: Spouse: Eliza Ann Stevenson - Dec 28 1864<br>Immigration: Oct 4 1847<br>Immigration: Oct 4 1847 - Utah, USA <br>Immigration: Dec 15 1856<br>Immigration: Dec 15 1856 - Utah, USA <br>Residence: Between 1839 and 1846 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA <br>Residence: 1860 - Cache, Utah, USA <br>Residence: 1870 - Utah, USA <br>Death: Mar 4 1899 - Millville, Cache, Utah, USA <br>Burial: Mar 6 1899 - Millville, Cache, Utah, USA <br>Parents: Fielding Garr, Paulina Garr (born Turner)<br>Spouses: Mariah Laura Garr (born Pitkin), Eliza Ann Garr (born Stevenson)<br>Children: Thomas Fielding Garr, Caroline Campbell (born Garr), Eliza Mariah Cranney (born Garr), <a>Mary Virgina Garr, Abe Garr, Weaver Garr, Eltha Garr, Willard Weaver Garr, Wilford Garr, Hazel Hovey (born Garr)<br>Siblings: Eliza Jane Davidson (born Garr), Nancy Garr, Abraham Garr, Richard Rue Garr, John Turner Garr, William Henry Garr, Caroline Martin Garr, Sarah Anna Burton (born Garr), ;Mary Virginia Ashby (born Garr), Benjamin Franklin Garr<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Abel Weaver Garr (1833 - 1899)ng Able, six siblings, the youngest age 4, a grandbaby, and his live stock successfully across the Plaines. At one point their company was100 miles ahead of Brigham. When asked to return to Winter Quarters for greater safety, they complied. Fielding settled his family on Antelope Island where he developed a successful cattle and horse ranch. Able and his brothers were known as skillful horse and cattlemen.ue group led by George D. Grant and William Kimball. They reached Fort Bridger on October 12, where they split into two groups; a slower group heavily loaded with provisions, and a faster group with only one wagon and a few extra mounts led by William Kimball and George Grant. They took Able Garr, Joseph Young, and Cyrus Wheelock to push ahead as conditions worsened and slowed their ress. 19, they were forced to stop and wait out a blizzard. Fortunately, the next day James Willie and Joseph Elder, a search party from the Willie Company, discovered their camp. Within minutes the camp was struck, and the men hastened through the storm to find the starving and freezing members of the Willie Company.h. George Grant and others left, through deepening snow, to continue the search for the Martin Company, believed to be at Devil's Gate. r another week Grant was forced to stop. His rescue party was several days beyond the point where they expected to find the Martin and Hogget Companies. Grant sent Able Garr, Joseph Young, and DanielW. Jones ahead with saddle horses and packed mules, in a final effort to locate the Martin and Hogget companies. Both were found two days later on October 28. They had been stranded in the snow several days. Fifty-six people had already been lost. The rescue party had no food, only good news. They got the company moving again based on the hope that food and warm blanket were close at hand. Josephled them forward to the Willie Company, while Garr and Jones left to find the Hunt Wagon train, still two days east. After finding and getting the Hunt Company moving, they returned and helped the immigrants as they struggled up Avenue Hill toward the Sweetwater River.tempt to give a description of these people; for this you will lean from your son, Joseph and from Brother Garr who are the bearers of thismessage. You can imagine between five and six hundred men women and children work down by drawing carts through mud and snow fainting by the way side, children crying with cold, their limbs stiffened, their feet bleeding and some of them bare to the frost, The sight is too much for the stoutest of us. Our party is too small be of help in comparison to what is needed. I believe that not more than one third of the Martin Company will be able to walk any further. I have never held so much interest in any mission I have ever before been called to perform, and all ofthe boys who are with me feel the same. We have prayed without ceasing and the blessings of the Lord have been with us. (S .F. Kimball, Improvement Era, Vol.XVII, 1913 p.203)s known for bringing packages of his freshly slaughtered beef to neighbors and people in need. My father talked about how important it was to his grandfather that no one ever go hungry.ettlersd developer of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, to bring their stock with stock belonging tothe Church and locate in Cache Valley. The Garr Brothers built three log cabins, about 1 1/2 mile northwest of the present center of Millville, and helped establish the Church's Elk Horn Ranch, later known as the Church Farm. During a severe winter in1858, which threatened to destroy the herd,the stock was driven in back to pasture nearer the Great Salt Lake. Able settled and lived in the valley from 1855 until his death in 1899.
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