Isaac Herring and Harriet Lucinda Adams

Isaac Herring

• born 10 June 1810 in Rutherford, North Carolina
• died 28 December 1890 in Elsinore, Utah
• Emigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1852 with the Robert Wimmer Company
• Served in the cavalry as a teamster for the Utah Territory Military during the Indian War.

Harriet Lucinda Adams

• born 21 May 1816 in New London, Huron, Ohio
• died 24 Jan 1891 in Annabella, Utah
• Emigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1852 with the Robert Wimmer Company

Isaac Herring was born June 10, 1810, at Rutherford County, North Carolina, to Major Herring and Elizabeth Jones.  Harriet was born May 21, 1816, at New London, Huron, Ohio to Ephraim and Louisa Adams.  Isaac was baptized 12 March 1835.  The original record of when Harriet was baptized is not available.  But they were sealed in the Endowment house, 22 November 1855They met and married around 1837 in Illinois.  They lived in Caldwell County where their first child, Cornelies B. was born October 20, 1838.  He died a few months later.  They moved to Scott County, Illinois where Smith A. (or Sintha A.) and Joseph were born.  Smith only lived 4 months.  Then they moved to Hancock County, Illinois where Elizabeth and Major were born.  Elizabeth lived nine months. There is record that he served in the 2nd quorum of the Seventy in the Kirtland area.  Then they moved to Winter Quarters for a couple of years at least before coming to Salt Lake.  There Nancy Arrilla and Isaac Ephraim were born. In 1850 the census reports them to have lived at Pottawattamie, Iowa.  Isaac made several trips back to Missouri to bring more saints to Utah. Isaac farmed when he arrived in Utah, settling near Manti.  Harriet Arvilla and Ransom Wiley were born after they arrived in Utah.   Isaac served as a teamster for the Utah Territory Military during the Indian War. We was a private in E.F.Pearsons Company.  Sometime between 1870 and 1880 Harriet and Isaac divorced.  Isaac died 28 December 1890 in Elsinore, Utah.  Harriet died 24 Jan 1891 in Annabella, Utah.