Third Generation

23. Olivia Thankful Pratt was born on 2 June 1841 in Manchester, Lancaster, England. She died Asthma on 12 June 1906 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. She was buried on 15 June 1906 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. Olivia has Ancestral File Number 18QM-Q8. Letter from Parley P. Pratt - January 21, 1843
Chester, State of Illinois, Jan. 21, 1843.
Dear Brother Ward,–I take this opportunity of communicating a few items of news which may be of use to your readers. I arrived here two weeks since with my family. We are all well, except Olivia, who has the whooping cough. We are living here a few weeks, waiting for the river to open for Nauvoo. We are comfortably situated, a few yards from the landing, in a stone house in a small village eighty miles below St. Louis, and three hundred from Nauvoo. Provisions are cheaper than ever; Indian corn is 20 cents per bushel; wheat 40 cents, flour, 3 1/4 dollars per barrel; oats 15 cents per bushel; pork and beef from 2 to 3 cents per lb.; butter, 10 cents; sugar, 5 cents; chickens 8 cents each etc. Cows from 8 to 10 and 12 dollars per head; good horses, from 25 to 50 dollars; land, from 11/4 to 4 dollars per acre.
We were ten weeks on the Emerald and one in coming up the river. The weather was very fine until the day before we landed, when it became extremely cold and snowy; but after a week of sever weather, it became suddenly warm and pleasant, and it remains so yet–all ice and snow have disappeared, and the weather is like May. . . . [p.206]
BIB: Pratt, Parley P. [Letter], Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 3:12 (April 1843) p.206. (HDL) (Mormon Immigration Index)

Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
Between the middle of September and my own embarkation in October, I chartered three vessels for New Orleans, and filled them with the emigrating Saints, viz:
The “Sidney,” with one hundred and eighty souls; the “Medford,” with two hundred and fourteen souls; and the “Henry,” with one hundred and fifty-seven.
I next chartered the Emerald, on which I placed about two hundred and fifty passengers, including myself and family.
Having finished my present mission in England and taken an affectionate leave of the Saints and friends there, I embarked on the Emerald, and sailed on the 29th of October. We had a tedious passage of ten weeks, and some difficulties, murmurings and rebellions; but the Saints on board were called together, and chastened and reproved sharply, which brought them to repentance. We then humbled ourselves and called on the Lord, and he sent a fair wind, and brought us into port in time to save us from starvation.
We landed in New Orleans early in January, 1843. Here I chartered a steamer called the “Goddess of Liberty,” and took passage with the company for St. Louis. Running up the river for about a week, I landed with my family in Chester, Illinois--eighty miles below St. Louis. The company continued on to St. Louis. My reason for landing here was, that I would not venture into Missouri after the abuses I had experienced there in former times. [p.285]
. . . A small steamer arrived, [near St. Louis] commanded by Captain Dan Jones, and was finally chartered for Nauvoo, and filled with Saints, including my family. I passed by land to Alton, and there went on board.
Captain Jones was a good and kind hearted Welshman, and was much interested in the fullness of the gospel. He soon joined the Church, and was finally ordained and appointed a mission to Wales, where he preached the fulness of the gospel and gathered thousands into the Church.
April 12th we landed in Nauvoo, and were kindly welcomed by President Smith and scores of others, who came down to the wharf to meet us. . . . [p.289]
BIB: Pratt, Parley P. Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, ed. by Parley P. Pratt, Jr., (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), pp.285, 289. (HDL)

Olivia Thankful Pratt and Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Sr. were married on 16 February 1857 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Sr. was born on 13 May 1837 in Fredonia, Licken, Ohio, USA. He died Brights disease on 1 October 1913 in Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. He was buried on 3 October 1913 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. Benjamin has Ancestral File Number 18QM-P3. 1870 Census: Real Estate value: $300; Personal Property value: $300.
1860 Census: Real Estate value: $200; Personal Property value: $300.
also on 1860 Census: Real Estate value: $250; Personal Property value: $300.
According to the 1860 Agriculatural Census (FHL #1550328) Benjamin owned 10 acres of farm, valued at $100 and $35 worth of farm implements. He also owned 1 milk cow, 2 working oxen, 5 other cattle, 2 swine, all valued at $150. He had 70 bushels of wheat, 15 bushels of Indian corn, 15 bushels of Irish potatoes, 30 lbs of butter, and 10 tons of hay.

Olivia Thankful Pratt and Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Sr. had the following children:

+189	i.	Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Jr..
+190	ii.	Ella Olivia Driggs.
+191	iii.	Luna Belle Driggs.
+192	iv.	Don Carlos Driggs.
+193	v.	Parley Shadrach Driggs.
+194	vi.	Florence Marion Driggs.
+195	vii.	Leland Monroe Driggs.
196	viii.	Beatrice Lillian Driggs was born on 2 August 1873 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. She died on 14 March 1874. She has Ancestral File Number 18QN-5G. Beatrice was buried in Pl Gr Cem a-099-003-20, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah.3
+197	ix.	Grace Edith Driggs.
+198	x.	Alice Vivia Driggs.
199	xi.	Rintha Blanche Driggs was born on 24 August 1880 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. She died on 22 February 1883. She has Ancestral File Number 2HZ6-HH. Rintha was buried in Pl Gr Cem a-09-003-22, Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah.3
+200	xii.	William King Driggs.