Photo of three of Zemira and Caroline's daughters

The above photo has been contributed by Lucile Brubaker with the following caption: 


"This is a photo of three of Zemira and Caroline's daughters: my great-grandmother Almeda Eve Palmer Cox and two of her sisters and spouses. (Grandma Almeda's husband Theodore was missing from the pic.) All in the photo were well known by my mother, (Lenna Cox Wilcock) who identified them as follows, left to right: Susan Louisa Palmer Black, James Henry Walker, Almeda Eve Palmer Cox, Benjamin Daniel Black, and Laura Lovina Palmer Walker." 

The following information is also from Lucile Brubaker for descendants of James William Palmer (Zemira's son): 


"Ben Black's parents were William Morley Black and Amy Washburn, and Ben's sisters were Eva Minerva and Mary Ann Black. They were half-siblings of Olive Myrtle Black, and the girls were all plural wives of your ancestor James William Palmer (He was Almeda's half-brother)."

(39) Zemira and Sally live in Draper, then Provo

According to Geneva Heaton Pace, Zemira’s and Sally’s “first home was a log cabin at Willow Creek (now Draper), Utah.  Being a carpenter, he made the furniture which was crude because a saw and hammer were his only tools.”  (Page 863 Sarah Collinwood’s book.)  Sally, having been reared in a religious atmosphere, was a great strength to her husband, Zemira. 

Zemira and Sally moved from Draper to Provo in 1853, where they lived until 1859 or ’60. Sally gave birth to six children in Provo.  They were: Alma Zemira, born in1853, twins Mary and Martha, born and died 1855, Lydia, born 1856, Phebe, in 1858, and James William, born 1860, totaling four living children.