Monday, August 22, 2011

Pack Reunion @ This is the Place


Just a little bit of history:
My family had the Pack reunion at This is The Place Heritage Park this last weekend. My Great Great Great Great Grandfather was John Pack. One of the 9 who found/scoped out the Salt Lake Valley on July 22nd, 1847 - 2 days before Brigham Young.
Here is our lineage (for our sake, I'm sure it's boring to you)
John Pack & Julia Ives
Ward Eaton Pack
Marvin Pack
Ada Pack Ford
Sharon Ford (Nielson) Reese
Sheri Nielson Harris
Kelly Harris Clegg
Ryan & Ethan Clegg
We also have another big reason to love the

University of Utah:

The very first classes at University of Deseret (now the University of Utah) were taught in my great great great great grandfathers' home.


My boys on the Train

Ryan, Aunt Syd, Mom, Ethan in front of the replica of John Packs home. When we went in the home, we told Ryan this was his great, great, great, great, great grandfather's home, and he thought it was so neat! He went exploring. It was so cute.


John Pack had 8 Wives, 1 divorced him, and 1 died. As you can see, he had a lot of children. I'm sure I dated one of my cousins growing up, with how many relatives I don't know. :-)

We were from the first son of the first wife. That made it easy to snap a picture of them together. :-)

John Pack is scruffy one in the back.



It was fun showing our boys where Mommy comes from.



1 comment:

Jeff L Harris said...

Wow, you got some great pictures!