Family: William Atkins Gheen / Esther Ann Pierce (F251)

• Male William Atkins Gheen

  
  

  Birth	1798
  Death	15 Jul 1845	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
  Burial		Unknown, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
  Marriage	7 May 1823	Pa
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  Female Esther Ann Pierce

  
  

  Birth	24 Dec 1801	Thornbury, Delaware, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  Death	2 Sep 1858	Ogden, Weber, Utah
  Burial	Sep 1858	Ogden, Weber, Utah
  Other Spouse	Ellis Mendenhall Sanders | F5588
  Marriage	2 Feb 1846
  Father	Thomas Pierce | F5587 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret Trimble | F5587 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female + Ann Alice Gheen

  
  

  Birth	2 Dec 1827	West Whiteland, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
  Death	12 Oct 1879	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Burial	18 Oct 1879	Kimball Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Spouse	Heber Chase Kimball | F192
  Marriage	10 Sep 1844	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

  
  

  Female + Amanda Trimble Gheen

  
  

  Birth	18 Jan 1830	Whiteland Crest, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
  Death	4 Nov 1904	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Burial	7 Nov 1904	Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
  Spouse	Heber Chase Kimball | F5486
  Marriage	1845

  
  

• Notes

  Brief Life Sketch of Ester Ann Pierce (Gheen) (Mallory) (Lake) Ester Ann Pierce was born to Thomas and Margaret Trimble Pierce on 24 Dec 1808 in Thornbury, Delaware, Pennsylvania. She married William Atkins Gheen the 7th May 1823. They both had been memebers of the Quakers. They were the parents of eight children. They were baptized 15 Aug 1840. They soon gathered with the saints at Nauvoo, Illinois. William Atkins Gheen became very ill and died 15 July 1845. Ester was sealed to William in the newly completed Nauvoo Temple on 2 Feb 1846. This same day she married Ellis Mendenhall Sanders for time only. They were later divorced on 29 Jan 1848. Ester arrived in Utah around 1850. Her son, Stephen, arrived in 1848 with the Howard Egan Independent Company. She may have been with him. She appears in the 1850 census living in Ogden. She is living with her children at the home of Lemuel Mallory. The Gheen Family has him listed as a husband. We do not have any other records regarding hij, if they were married there would have been a divorce before 1853 when she married James Lake. In the spring on 1853 she is listed in the Bingham Fort as the Widow Gheen. Lemuel Mallory was on the first high council of the Weber Stake with James Lake. Lemuel later moved to Cache Valley, Utah. Ester Ann Pierce Gheen Mendenhall Mallory because the plural wife on James Lake on 8 Oct 1853 being married for time only. She died 2 Sep 1858, just a short time after returning to Ogden after the evacuation of the saints to Utah County, because of the Johnston's Army threat. She is buried in the Ogden Cemetery in a plot purchased by James Lake.