John Prichard Squire, Jr.

John Prichard Squire - My Great-Grandfather

Born 9 October 1856

Died 18 August 1932

I have written about John P. Squire's wife, Kanney Christene Kenney, and his parents, John Prichard Squire, Sr. and Adelia DeMille. So I thought it was time to write about John Prichard Squire, Jr.  If you recall from previous posts, John's father, John P. Squire, Sr., was a Mormon Pioneer, who helped care for Lorenzo Snow's family while Lorenzo was serving a mission.  His mother, Adelia DeMille, was also a Mormon Pioneer, who crossed the plains at the age of 18.  I retell that as a reminder that John P. Squire, Jr. was born to great pioneer stalk.  John's father died when he was 15 years old.  He was the third of eight children and the oldest son.

I found an obituary from the Salt Lake Tribune posted on FindAGrave.com:

John Prichard Squire
MANTI—Funeral services were held Tuesday in the L. D. S. South Ward Chapel for John Prichard Squire, 76, who died Thursday at his farm five miles south of here.
Interment was in Manti City Cemetery. His body was not discovered until Sunday about 11 a. m., when neighboring farmers found his horses in the corral badly in need of water. A search of the premises disclosed the body lying head down in an irrigation ditch, where Mr. Squire had fallen when he had evidently suffered a heart attack.
A post-mortem examination disclosed the fact that death was not due to drowning, although his head was covered with water. His tracks leading from the house to the spot where his body was found showed evidence of having been made sometime Thursday, after the last shower.
Mr. Squire was born here October 9, 1856, a son of John P. and Adelia DeMill Squire. He married Elizabeth Walker in Perry, who died some years later. Two children were born to them, one of whom survives: Mrs. Leona Pruhs, Magna.
His third wife. Mrs. Christena Kenney Peterson Squire, survives, with a son and daughter: Mrs. Cannie Thorpe and Loren Squire.
-Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 26, 1932, transcribed by Rhonda Holton

John Prichard Squire Tombstone,
Manti Cemetery

John P. Squire married Anna Jones Ferre on 12 December 1888 in Manti, Utah.  They were the parents of four children, with only two surviving childhood, Leona and Gilbert.  It is my understanding from my grandfather's written history and my father's memory that my great-grandmother, Kanney, moved in with the family as a caretaker for the children and then later married John on 8 January 1897 in Manti.  At the time of their marriage John was 40 years old and Kanney was one month shy of being 19 years old (only ten years older than John's oldest child from his previous marriage.  

John and Kanney Christene had three children, Loren DeLance (my grandpa), Canny Mary, and Adrien Axel.  John and Kanney Christene were divorced by 1920 as Kanney Christene shows as the head of household in the 1920 U.S. Census in Manti, Utah. I could not find John P. Squire in the 1920 Census.   Kanney Christine married Frederick Peterson in 1922.  It is listed in Ancestry.com that John married Elizabeth Walker, but I do not know if that was his first or third marriage.  

Rhonda Holton who transcribed and submitted the above obituary to FindAGrave wrote the following:

John Prichard Squire is the son of Adelia DeMille and John Prichard Squire Sr.
He married Anna Kathryn Ferre December 12, 1888 in Manti, Utah.
They had five children: Ruth Squire, Leona Anna Squire, Ludwig Gilbert Squire, Gilbert Squire and John Leslie Squire. Anna died in 1895.
John married second Kanny Christene Kenny January 8, 1897 in Manti, Utah. They had three children: Loren Delance Squire, Canny Squire and Adrien Axel Squire.
He married J. Elizabeth Walker

Anna and John only had four children, Ludwig Gilbert and Gilbert was the same person. 

Here is a picture of the Manti Cemetery where John Prichard Squire is buried.  I hope to visit this cemetery soon!