John Leasil Brasher

This man was my 5 times great grandfather, I have learned so much about him in the last 48 hours then I ever thought possible. This man who crossed the plains and left his very wealthy mother behind on her Kentucky plantation to become a Mormon man. I recently started emailing one of his great granddaughter's. Her mother is still alive and while she was not alive when John was, She remembers the stories that were told and has letters from John to his mother back home in Kentucky. I cant wait to delve further into this mans life. Without him and so many others I would not be here tonight typing this about him and his life!!

Ellen Elizabeth Sessions B. Aug 13, 1899 - D. Apr. 4, 1988!

Ellen Elizabeth Sessions was born on August 13th, 1899 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co. UT. She was born to Harvey Wintle Sessions and Annie Laura Burningham. She married Alfred Orlando Anderson sometime during the year 1916 (still doing research on finding actual date).  Ellen had four children with Alfred before he died tragically from an explosion in the shop he was working in. They had Alfred Anderson in 1918, Ellen was born in 1920, Dora was born 16 Sept, 1923, Finally Donald Jay Anderson was born 6 Sept 1931. Alfred Orlando had actually passed away in January of that same year.
Ellen Then married Wilford Roberg October 31 1931. They had 6 children together. The first was a set of triplets, two boys and one girl. Raymond, Robert, & Roberta, they were born in 1933 and passed away the same year. Following the triplets was Gail born 1935, Judith was born in 1939, and Finally Keith Wilford in 1941. Keith was killed in 1952 when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. He is buried with the triplets in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Wilford passed away in 1973 and is buried next to Ellen, Keith, and the Triplets.

NEW DISCOVERY

Today I found a little piece of heaven in one of my secret boxes!! You hear of how they used to make pictures of people and they would be developed on a piece of metal. Well I have found one, of my 3rd great grandfather Harvey Valentine Blackett. Judging from the time of his birth to how long they made these pictures I would say I was very lucky. It was probably taken somewhere along the time he was three or four. So around the year 1878-1879. Just as a more popular picture technique was being produced. I will definitely post pictures of it as soon as my camera comes back from Vegas with my daughter. I will definitely treasure this find. I also went shopping for antique picture frames today (or rather some frames that I can make look old)!! Not much luck:( Anyone with any ideas give me a shout out. I am getting ready to redecorate a room for just genealogy purposes!!

Is there anyone out there??

Today I read a story about a young woman who helps an elderly lady with her family history. She is looking into the life of this elderly woman's father's eldest sister. This woman's name was Faith. Faith and her family consisting of her husband and four children died in 1905 of a disease, they believed that this was the whole family. Come to find out there was a fifth child who had passed away in 1904 the same day that the child was born. This wouldn't have shown up in the 1900 census obviously and it didn't show up in the death report of the entire family because the child had already passed on. The only way that they knew this child had existed at all was because of the family bible, where faith had written down the names and dates of her children's births.

This makes me wonder how many of my own relatives am I missing simply because I do not have the resources to know from the direct source their mothers. This is what I am looking for here, I want to find the missing pieces to my puzzle that I just don't know how. I would like to find people out there that may have family keepsakes that they are willing to share with me whether family bibles, journals, or even pictures.