Prepared by their Grandson Frank J. Earl in 1975.
John Earl, son of William, who was the son of Henry Earl, was born Sept. 8, 1827 in Scarborough, York County, Ontario, Upper Canada, near present Toronto, Canada. Rheumina Wilson, John’s wife to be, was born in Perryville, Green Township, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1829. Your writer has no further information of her until after her marriage to John Earl.
John Earl died July 13, 1908 in Fileding, Utah and was buried in Farmington Cemebery, Davis County, Utah. Rheumina Wilson Earl died Dec. 16, 1904 in Farmington and was buried beside her husband.
Wiliam and Sarah Syphers Earl, John’s parents, joined the Church in Scarborough, Canada in 1836 and shortly thereafter they moved to Kirland, Ohio. In 1836 John was nine years old. July 6, 1838 John’s parents and their nine children left Kirtland, Ohio as a part of the Kirtland Camp. There were 529 members of this group. After a very strenuous journey of 870 miles the group arrived in Far West, Missouri Oct. 2, 1838. Two days later they were in Adam-ondi-Ahmen where the family may have lived for some time.
