Phoebe Leavitt

Phoebe Leavitt was born in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio on January 27, 1839. The Daughter of John Leavitt and Lucy Rowell. Her parents moved to nearby Burton, Ohio soon after her birth and later to Cambria, Hillsdale, Michigan. She never married. It is believed that the family left Michigan in 1854, going to Oak Lawn, Illinois and then Council Bluffs, Iowa.

She left with two of her brothers and three of her sisters for Utah in 1860. When Joseph A. Young, a son of Brigham Young met their independent wagon train at Wood River, Nebraska, he organized them according to the policies of the Church and Phoebe was baptized at Wood River on June 24, 1860.

We assume she settled with her sister Lucinda's family in Ogden. She joined her relatives on the Muddy Mission. She eventually moved to Woods Cross and then Loa, Wayne, Utah.

Her grandniece Tirza Brown Parker, a daughter of Benjamin Franklin Brown II, remembers her Aunt Phoebe as a shy person who kept to herself. She had a little trunk that she had since her years in Ohio or Michigan, which she loved to look in, but didn't let others see what was in it.

She died in Loa, Utah on March 12, 1914 at the age of 75 and is buried in the Loa Cemetery.