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A Look At Ephraim Hanks
The fascinating Ephraim Hanks caught my attention many years ago as I researched the early mining pioneers of Park City. So much has been written about him, you can’t possibly learn it all in a one-hour lecture, so I’ll give you a broad overview here. He was born in 1826 in Madison, Ohio and left home at the age of 16 to work on the Erie Canal. He joined the Navy and became a Mormon in 1845 to unite with his brother Stanley as the Mormons headed west to Utah. As a member of the Mormon Battalion, he accompanied them to San Diego and then returned to Salt Lake.
He fully embraced the polygamist lifestyle, wedding four women: Harriett Amelia Decker (m. September 1848), Jane Maria Capener (m. March 1856), Thisbe Quilley Read (m. April 1862). With these women he had 26 children. He never lived with his 4th wife Hannah Hardy and their marriage was dissolved in 1856. With 26 children, it’s no surprise that there are many descendants remaining in Utah.
From 1851-53 he carried the mail from Salt Lake City to St. Louis, crossing the plains more than fifty times
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Ephraim Knowlton Hanks
Question: An Angel woke Ephraim Knowlton Hanks, asking him if he would go help the handcart pioneers caught in the early snowstorms. Who was Ephraim K. Hanks?
Answer: Ephraim K. Hanks was born 21 March 1826 in Madison, Ohio. He enlisted as a sailor when he was sixteen years old. When he arrived home, he was introduced to the Church by his older brother, Sidney. Ephraim was soon baptized and cast his lot with the Saints in Nauvoo who were soon to become exiles. On their trek to the west, Ephraim was one who served in the Mormon Battalion. Ephraim became friends with a fellow-soldier, Arza Hinckley. As a man, Ephraim was solidly built, being six feet tall and weighing two hundred pounds.
Andrew Jensen recorded the following as told to him by Ephraim: “In the fall of 1856, I had occasion to stop once over night with Gurnsey Brown, in Draper…Being somewhat fatigued after the day’s journey, I retired to rest quite early, and while I still lay wide awake in my bed I heard a voice calling me by name, and then saying: Yes, I will go if
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Ephraim Hanks
Ephraim Knowlton Hanks (21 March 1826 – 9 June 1896) was a prominent member of the 19th-Century Latter Day Saint movement, a Mormon pioneer and a well known leader in the early settlement of Utah.
Hanks was born in Madison, Lake County, Ohio, the son of Benjamin Hanks and Martha Knowlton, his second wife. Hanks left home at age 16, working for a time on the Erie Canal and then serving in the United States Navy. Returning home to Ohio, he learned his brother Sidney had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Hanks soon accepted the young church's teachings and became a member in 1845.
Hanks left Nauvoo, Illinois, with the LDS followers of Brigham Young on the trek west to the Rocky Mountains. He left the main body of emigrants to join Company B of the Mormon Battalion, United States Army, and marched with them to San Diego as a private. He and other Battalion members marched from the Midwest, south through Arizona, and were released from service in California. Battalion members rejoined the Mormon emigrants from the west, traveling from Cali
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