Heber Parley Kimball (1835 - 1885)

Born 1 Jun 1835 in Kirtland, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Phoebe Teresa (Judd) Kimball — married 22 Nov 1855 in Salt Lake City, UT

Descendants

Died 8 Feb 1885 at age 49 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory

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Heber Parley became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

Heber Parley Kimball was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Son of the first wife (1st of 43 wives) of Heber C. Kimball, leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. Heber Parley Kimball was born on Jan. 1, 1835 in Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio, the son of Heber Chase Kimball and Vilate Murray. ^[1]

LDS Church Ordinance: Baptism about 1843 (Reference: Temple Index Bureau)

Heber initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Heber C. Kimball Company in 1848. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming. In 1861 he served as Captain of the 2nd division in the Joseph W. Young/Ansil P. Harmon/Heber P. Kimball Company.^[2]

Companies:^[3]

Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

Approximate age at departure: 13^[4][5]

Rescue Companies (1856)

Approximate age at departure: 21^[6][7]

Joseph W. Young/Ansil P. Harmon/Heber P. Kimball Company (1861)

Approximate age at departure: 26^{[8] [9]}

Heber married Phoebe Teresa Judd. They had the following children:

1. Murray William Kimball (1856-1872) - died age 16
2. Heber Parley Kimball (1858-1938) - m. Fannie Elizabeth Cooley 9 Jun 1886, m. #Amelia de Mott 24 Jan 1895 (seven children)
3. Margaret Clawson Kimball (1860-1891) - m. Frank Jennings
4. Alfred Judd Kimball (1862-1944) - m. Esther Seymour
5. Teresa Phebe Kimball (1865-1941) - m. Albert Werner
6. Brigham Willard Kimball (1867-1867) - died young
7. Ray Chase Kimball (1869-1960) - m. Elizabeth Clark
8. Winifred Natacha Rambova Kimball (1871-1957) - m. Michael Shaughnessy, a civil war veteran - parents of silent movie starlet, Natacha Rambova (1897-1966).
9. Ernest Kimball (1873-1874) - died young
10. Archibald Roberts Kimball (1875-1953) - Archie - m. Maggie Edminston and Nellie Dougherty.^[10]

Heber was a farmer. ^[11] He also served as a Colonel in the Utah Territory Military Cavalry during the Black Hawk War.

The Black Hawk War, or Black Hawk's War, from 1865 to 1872, is the name of the estimated 150 battles, skirmishes, raids, and military engagements between Mormons and other settlers in Sanpete County, Sevier County and other parts of central and southern Utah, and members of 16 Ute, Paiute, Apache and Navajo tribes, led by a local Ute war chief, Antonga Black Hawk.[1] The conflict resulted in the abandonment of some settlements and postponed Mormon expansion in the region.^[12]

Heber Parley died Feb. 8, 1885 and is buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. ^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Heber Chase Kimball
2. ↑ Overland Travel, LDS Pioneers
3. ↑ Pioneer Overland Travels
4. ↑ Helen Mar Kimball Diary
5. ↑ Vilate Kimball Autobiography
6. ↑ Jefferies, William, Reminiscences and diary, 1886, 22.
7. ↑ Keetch, Mercy Truth Barker, Reminiscences 1902, vol. 2, 8p.
8. ↑ Hovey, Joseph Grafton, Reminiscences and journals 1845-1856, vol. 1, 130-75.
9. ↑ Jacobs, Zebulon, Reminiscences and diaries, 1861-1877, fd. 1.
10. ↑ Familypedia: Heber Parley Kimball
11. ↑ Familypedia:Heber Parley Kimball
12. ↑ Wikipedia: The Black Hawk War
13. ↑ Find A Grave.

• *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heber_C._Kimball#Wives_and_children
• http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/heber-parley-kimball_29597782
• Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume 26, JON—KNO Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/334417?availability=Family%20History%20Library