George Brewerton

Middle class, able to get his kids some education. Married Ann Pilley. Not a lot known about him.

Ann Pilley

Her oldest daughter was baptized and emigrated to America to join the Saints, and then her other children joined the Church. She was baptized just before her husband George Brewerton died, and thereafter crossed the Atlantic on the ship "Samuel Curling" with a remaining son (who died in Kansas). She came across the plains either with Milo Andrus's 3rd company, or Charles Harper's 6th company, lived for four years in Deseret, and died.

Charles Wake

Born in England, and a tailor by trade, he married Elizabeth Thompson and they began building a family. Missionaries converted them, so they traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on the ship "Siddons," in what turned out to be an easy voyage. Elizabeth died in Illinois, and Charles married Emma Shefford. They made it across the plains, circling the wagons as needed, and reached Centerville, Utah. Crop failures and livestock deaths followed, though, and as soon as the transcontinental railroad arrived, Charles and Emma headed east for Nebraska. His son James was not about to abandon the Saints and leave Zion, and at the last minute his son Robert ran off to find and stay with James. Years later James and Robert came east to see him in his store. In Columbus, Nebraska he was an assessor, deputy sheriff, member of the Reorganized LDS church, and a charter volunteer fireman.

Elizabeth Thompson

Born in England, she married Charles Wake and had three children. Missionaries converted them, so they traveled across the Atlantic Ocean on the ship "Siddons," in what turned out to be an easy voyage. Elizabeth died in Illinois.

Thomas William Brewerton

Thomas William Brewerton was baptized LDS in England, and then served as a missionary there. He baptized Sarah Ann Crooks and later married her. Was a miller. Sailed on the "Old England," on which he and John Angus led the emigrating Saints. Survived a cholera outbreak in New Orleans, and headed west in Robert Campbell's wagon train. During the Utah War he defended Deseret against Johnston's Army as part of the Nauvoo Legion, Company B, 5th Battalion of the 4th Regiment, under Colonel C.W. West (his brother-in-law tells of drinking bacon grease for coffee while waiting for Buchanan's blunder to sally forth). He served his community as a mayor of Willard, Utah, a justice of the peace, a postmaster, and as a county selectman. Died suddenly of pneumonia.

Sarah Ann Crooks

Baptized LDS in England by Thomas Brewerton, who later married her. They sailed on the ship "Old England," and she was stricken with cholera in New Orleans, delaying her trip west. In Utah she joined the local dramatic association with her husband; tickets to plays cost either money or a bag of flour.

James Wake

When his father Charles decided to leave Deseret, James was not about to come, and at the last minute his brother Robert ran off to find and stay with James. The boys stayed in Utah and hauled timber and coal, and freighted to Montana. James married Eliza Breweron. His brother Robert homesteaded at Grape Creek near Almo, Idaho, and James and his family joined them and eventually he bought his brother's place. Eventually the brothers went east to visit Omaha, and paid a surprise visit to their father in his store, pretending to be customers wandering in. He recognized them, and it was an exciting moment.

Eliza Brewerton

In Willard City, Utah, she met James Wake and married him. They moved to Almo, Idaho, where she served as the first Relief Society president in the Almo branch.

Charles Francis Wake

Born to James Wake and Eliza Brewerton. Despite asthma, he was a great singer. Raising a family in Almo, Idaho, conditions were rural and difficult. He and his wife Janie Isobelle Barker didn't get electricity until the 1940's. In Almo he had built a large herd, but a bad winter and the poor care of a person in Elba who was watching the herd led to many deaths. He built the herd back up, but lost the cattle when he put them up as collateral for his brother Joel's loan. The family never recovered financially from that loss. He would not turn the ranch over to his sons, and after his death from a stroke, Joel and others claimed in probate a right to the ranch, and the family could not find the paperwork to prove the claim was bogus. Wesley Rice got the ranch at auction, and let Janie continue to live there for the rest of her life. Charles didn't want his sons to go away to war, but three did, going to the Pacific to fight the Japanese; two returned, although not to their father, who died toward the end of the war.