Edward Ockey

Edward Ockey (Oakey) (1816-1871) was born 27 Feb. 1816 in Bishop’s Frome, Herefordshire, England. He was the son of John Ockey and Elizabeth Taylor. He married Eliza Brewer on 22 May 1841 in New York City, New York Co., New York; officiated by Wilford Woodruff; widowed. He married Sarah Cole on 12 Jun. 1849 in Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory; participated in plural marriage. He was taught the gospel by Wilford Woodruff in Aug. 1840, baptized in Sep. 1840, and ordained a Priest by Wilford Woodruff on 21 Sep. 1840. He died 14 Aug. 1871 in Nephi, Juab Co., Utah Territory.

Footnotes

Edward Ockey (KWNV-DN9), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 31 Oct. 2021). Edward Ockey, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/edward-ockey, accessed 31 Oct. 2021). Lisle G. Brown, comp. Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), 225. Church of England, Parish Church of Bishops-Frome (Herefordshire), “Bishop’s Transcripts for Bishops-Frome, 1662-1868, Baptisms and Burials, 1662-1868,” p. 8, line. 61, Edward Ockey, 24 Mar. 1816; Hereford County Record Office, Hereford; microfilm 991967, item 2, DGS 8095465, image 593, FHL. "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 31 Oct. 2021), Edward Ockey, card 499; Nickerson, Susan S.M. - Olivato, Maria B., microfilm 1750702, DGS 7100435, image 12366/15314; Family History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. Edward Ockey, Reminiscence and Journal; Circa 1857-1858, pp. 1-2, MS 11746, as found at “Edward Ockey,” Saints by Sea: Latter-day Saints Immigration to America (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/, accessed 31 Oct. 2021). Winter Quarters Sexton’s Records, 1846-1848, Record Book, line no. 191, Eliza Ockey, image 28/51, LR 6359 24, CHL. Historical Department Journal History of the Church, 1830-2008, 1840-1849, 1847 January-June, p. 51, image 536/569CR 100 137, CHL. “Edward Ockey,” Pioneer Database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 31 Oct. 2021). 1850 US Census, Great Salt Lake County, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, house no. 437, Edward and Sarah Ockey. Pearl D. Wilson, Jun. McNulty and David Hampshire, A History of Juab County, Utah Centennial County History Series (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1999), 87. “At Nephi, Aug. 14, 1871,” Deseret News, 6 Sep. 1871, p. 8.