Adelia DeMille Squire

               Adelia DeMille Squire - My 2nd Great Grandmother

                                  Born: 27 September 1832
                                  Died: 17 December 1917

Adelia DeMille Squire was born September 27, 1832 in Missouri. Her parents were among some of the first to join the Mormon Church. They experienced the early sufferings and persecutions of that people. They were driven from Nauvoo at the time of the exodus.

She crossed the plains in 1850, driving an ox team most of the way. She arrived at Manti the same fall and has been a good citizen ever since. She was married to John P. Squire, December 31, 1852. She has been a widow for 47 years and was the mother of eight children of whom four survive here. Besides rearing her own children she has reared two grandchildren. Of her posterity there are 17 grandchildren, 51 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. The funeral was held in the Tabernacle at 3 p.m. Sunday. The speakers were Ezra Showmaker, Francis M. Cox, George E. Bench, Bishop N.R. Peterson. The pallbearers were six grandsons. Besides the relatives residing in Manti, her two children O. E. Squire and Eliza Winget of Monroe were present, grandchildren, Orson Allen of Salt Lake, Mrs. and Mrs. Milton Doxford of Austin, Luther Winget and wife of Monroe, Elmer Winget and wife of Austin, Ruby Squire of Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Waters of Richfield, Mrs. Leone Johnson of Salt Lake and son-in-law, Cyrus Winget of Monroe.
-The Manti Messenger, December 28, 1917 (Obituary)

                                      Another excerpt on Adelia Demille from Findagrave.com

In December 1833, when Adelia was only 1 year old, they were driven from their home by a mob to Clay County. In 1839, when Adelia was about 7, they were driven to Quincy, IL, and to other places. In 1842, they went to Nauvoo where they stayed until 22 April, 1846. Adelia was 14 when they were driven out of Nauvoo.
On the 26th of May, they arrived at Mt. Pisgah (Iowa) where they resided until 1850. Then they started for the Great Salt Lake Valley and arrived in Manti, Sanpete Co, UT on November 5, 1850. Adelia was just 18 and walked all the way across the Plains and drove the oxen team.