America (Mecham) Orser (1837 - 1917)

Born 11 Oct 1837 in Liberty Township, Buchanan, Iowa, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Heber Evert Orser — married 13 Aug 1857 in Provo, Utah, Utah

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1917 at age 79 in Jensen, Uintah, Utah, United States

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Biography

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Name

Name: America /Mecham/^[1]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 11 Oct 1837

Place: Liberty, Buchanan, Iowa, USA^[2]

Death

Death:

Date: 20 Aug 1917

Place: Jensen, Uintah, Utah, USA^[3][4]

Burial

Burial:

Date: 22 Aug 1917

Place: Vernal Memorial Park, Vernal, Uintah, Utah^[5]

Census

Census:

Date: 1851

Place: , Pottawattamie, Iowa^[6]

Census:

Date: 18 Sep 1860

Place: Provo, Utah, Utah Territory^[7]

Census:

Date: 19 Jun 1880

Place: Diamond, White Pine, Nevada^[8]

Event

Pioneer: Entered Salt Lake Valley as part of the Appleton M. Harmon Company

Date: 16 Oct 1853^[9]

Families

Husband: Heber Evert Orser

Wife: America Mecham

Marriage:

Date: 13 Aug 1857

Place: Provo, Utah, Utah

Husband: Moses Worthen Mecham

Wife: Elvira Derby

Child: Leonidas Clinton Mecham

Child: Sarah Mecham

Child: Samuel Mecham

Child: Mormon Mecham

Child: Polly Mecham

Child: Emily Mecham

Child: Americas Mecham

Child: America Mecham

Child: Martha Mecham

Child: Lucina Mecham

Child: Elvira Jane Mecham

Child: Moses Moroni Mecham

Child: William Wallace Mecham

Child: Celestia Ann Mecham

Child: John Derby Mecham

Child: Donna Maria Mecham

Child: Marquis Lafayette Mecham

Marriage:

Date: 8 Nov 1827

Place: Mercer, Mercer, Pennsylvania

• Fact: Burial Vernal Memorial Park , Vernal, Uintah County, Utah, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S2852711167 Note: Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5111977&pid=2173
2. ↑ Source: #S2852711167 Note: Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5111977&pid=2173
3. ↑ Source: #S2852711167 Note: Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=5111977&pid=2173
4. ↑ Source: #S1684
5. ↑ Source: #S1684
6. ↑ Source: #S1973
   Page: Pottawattamie, Image 16
   Data:
   Text: Image: 16
   County: Pottawattamie
   Name: America <Mecham>
   Age: 13
   Date: 1851
7. ↑ Source: #S126
   Page: Utah Territory, Utah, Provo, Image 49, Entry 23
   Data:
   Text: Page 341
   Schedule 1.--Free Inhabitants in Provo
   in the County of Utah
   State of Utah
   enumerated by me, on the 18th day of Sept 1860. /s/ Jesse Bishop, Ass't Marshal.
   Post Office Provo.
   Entry: 23
   Dwelling-house--numbered in the order of visitation: <2994>
   Families numbered in the order of visitation: <2333>
   The name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June, 1860, was in this family: Mary <Orser>
   Description.
   Age: 22
   Sex: F
   Color:
   Profession, Occupation, or Trade of each person, male and female, over 15 years of age:
   Value of Estate Owned.
   Value of Real Estate:
   Value of Personal Estate:
   Place of Birth, Naming the State, Territory, or Country: Ind a
   Married within the year:
   Attended school within the year:
   Persons over 20 yr's of age who cannot read & write:
   Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict:
   Date: 18 Sep 1860
8. ↑ Source: #S109
   Page: Nevada, White Pine, Diamond, District 56, Image 4, Entry 41
   Data:
   Text: Page No. 6
   Supervisor's Dist. No. 81
   Enumeration Dist. No. 56
   Schedule 1. - Inhabitants in Dimond Distrect, in the County of White Pine, State of Nevada
   enumerated by me on the 19th days of June, 1880.
   /s/ Ed simmons, Enumerator.
   Entry 41
   In Cities
   Name of Street:
   House Number:
   1 Dwelling houses numbered in order of visitation: <80>
   2 Families numbered in order of visitation: <86>
   3 The Name of each Person whose place of abode, on 1st day of June, 1880, was in this family: <Orser> America
   4 Color--White, W.; Black, B.; Mulatto, Mu.; Chinese, C.; Indian, I.: W
   5 Sex--Male, M.; Female, F.: F
   6 Age at last birthday prior to June 1, 1880: 40
   7 If born within the Census year, give the month:
   8 Relationship of each person to the head of this family--whether wife, son, daughter, servant, boarder, or other: Wife
   Civil Condition.
   9 Single:
   10 Married: /
   11 Widowed; Divorced, D.:
   12 Married during Census year:
   Occupation.
   13 Profession, Occupation or Trade of each person, male or female: House Keeping
   14 Number of months this person has been unemployed during the Census year:
   Health.
   15 Is the person [on the day of the Enumerator's visit] sick or temporarily disabled, so as to be unable to attend to ordinary business or duties? If so, what is the sickness or disability?
   16 Blind:
   17 Deaf and Dumb:
   18 Idiot:
   19 Insane:
   20 Maimed, Crippled, Bedridden, or otherwise disabled:
   Education.
   21 Attended school within the Census year:
   22 Cannot read:
   23 Cannot write:
   Nativity.
   24 Place of Birth of this person, nameing State or Territory of United States, or the Country, if of foreign birth: Indania
   25 Place of Birth of the Father of this person, naming the State or Territory of United States, or the Country, if of foreign birth: N H
   26 Place of Birth of the Mother of this person, naming the State or Territory of United States, or the Country, if of foreign birth: N H
   Date: 19 Jun 1880
9. ↑ Source: #S129

• America “Mary” Mecham Orser (1837-1917) on Find A Grave: Memorial #52475190 retrieved 24 April 2018
• WikiTree profile Mecham-65 created through the import of The Sammons Family Tree.ged on Jun 9, 2011 by Steve Sammons. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Steve and others.

• WikiTree profile Mecham-215 created through the import of 6 Ancestor Gens, 1 Descendant Gen.ged on Feb 6, 2012 by Derek Maude. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Derek and others.

• Source: S2852711167 Repository: #R2852704208 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
• Repository: R2852704208 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
• Source: S109
  Title: Census: United States: 1880
  Publication: Images Online at Ancestry.com
• Source: S112
  Title: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude
  Publication: 1998, International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers
  Page: Pages 1966-7
• Source: S126
  Title: Census: United States: 1860
  Publication: Images Online at Ancestry.com
• Source: S129 Repository: #REPO12
  Title: Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847-1868
  Publication: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (online)
• Repository: REPO12 Name: http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanylist-information
• Source: S147
  Title: Early LDS Membership
  Author: Black, Susan Easton
  
• Source: S148
  Title: I Walked To Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
  Author: Madsen, Susan Arrington
  Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1994
  Text: Page 117--
  Born: March 11, 1841, Lee County, Iowa
  Parents: Moses Worthen and Elvira Derby Mecham
  1853: John Brown Company
  Age at time of journey: 12
  Page 120--
  Lucina Mecham married William Jasper Boren July 3, 1859, in Provo, Utah. They became the parents of thirteen children, living in Wallsburg, Utah County, Utah. Lucina became a midwife and delivered over five hundred babies. At the age of fifty, she took music lessons and became the ward organist. She also ran a small mercantile store and worked in the Manti Temple. She died June 21, 1925, at the age of eighty-four.
  SOURCE: "Journal of Lucina Mecham Boren." In "Treasures of Pioneer History," 6:301-48.
  Page: Pages 117-120
• Source: S1684 Repository: #REPO1
  Title: Death Certificate: Orser, America
  Author: State of Utah Department of Health
  Text: 1703961
  State Board of Health File No: 70
  STATE OF UTAH--DEATH CERTIFICATE
  1. PLACE OF DEATH
  County: Uintah
  Township:
  or
  Village: Jensen
  or
  City:
  2. FULL NAME: America Orser
  PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
  3.SEX: Female
  4. COLOR OR RACE: White
  5. SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR DIVORCED: Widowed
  6.DATE OF BIRTH: October 11, 1837
  7. AGE: 79 yrs. 10 mos. 9 ds.
  8. OCCUPATION
  (a) Trade, profession or particular kind of work: None
  (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer):
  9. Birthplace: Indiana
  10. NAME OF FATHER: Moses Mecham
  11. BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER: Unknown
  12. MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER: Elvira Durbey
  13. BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER: Unknown
  14. THE ABOVE IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE
  (Informant): Alice Billings
  (Address): Jensen, Utah.
  15. Filed: ; /s/ Zilpha Meeks Wellman (Registrar) By Lydia Niell, Dp Registrar
  MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
  16. DATE OF DEATH: August 20, 1917
  17. I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Aug. 6, 1917, to Aug. 6, 1917, that I last saw her alive on Aug 6, 1917, and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at ___m.
  The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows: Cerebral Hemorrhage
  Duration: 21 ds.
  Contributory: Arterioschlerosis
  Duration:
  (Signed) /s/ TWStevenson, M. D.; Feb. 19, 1918; (Address) 209 Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City
  18. LENGTH OF RESIDENCE (For Hospitals, Institutions, Transients, or Recent Residents)
  At place of death:
  In the State:
  Where was disease contracted, if not at place of death?
  Former or usual residence:
  19. PLACE OF BURIAL OR REMOVAL: Vernal,Utah.
  DATE OF BURIAL: Aug.22, 1917
  20. UNDERTAKER: H.E.Dillman
  ADDRESS: Vernal,Utah.
  21. Registered Number: 4
  22. No. of Burial Permit: 4
• Source: S1973 Repository: #REPO15
  Title: Census: Iowa State: 1851
  Publication: Images Online at Ancestry.com
• Repository: REPO15 Name: Ancestry.com
  Address: Provo, Utah
• Source: S54
  Title: FamilySearch Internet Family Tree
  Publication: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints