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Show I BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH I (COMTRIDUTED) I James Pulley, son of Francis Pulley I and Martha Embrey Pulley was born I May 17th 1823, in Herefordshire Eng- I land. I His father was killed when James I was but three months old, leaving him I and five other children to be cared for I by their mother. The family was in I destitute circumstances so that it was I necessary for them to gain a likelihood I by their daily efforts at small wages. I James in common with the others I being compelled to obtain a living under I these conditions, had limited education- l al advantages theso being a few weeks If in a private school and some instruction IE from his mother which enabled him to Ira read and writo. B Whilo laboring in llercfoidbhlre ob- IM.' tainlng what employment ho could, ho ' Lg heard and accepted tho Gospel, being WmgL baptited at Lcadbury Oct 14th 1840. Br Soon afterward ho was ordained to the ' t 'jk '"co ' Mti t" which capacity ho ' W$ labored about four years, during which , tb- . tlmo jj0 MV0C cnoUKn means from his ,. secular labors to emigrate to America in the year 1844 going directly to Nau-voo. Nau-voo. While raiding here ho received tho Metchlsedck Priesthood and became be-came personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph being a member of tho Nauvoo Legion. On tho 4th of February Febru-ary 1840 ho married Alice Moon, soon utter which time ho was engaged in i tho Nauvoo battle and with the lust ot tho Saints wus driven from tho city. Leaving Nauvoo he went to the city of Alton. Illinois, from lure to Suvun-nah, Suvun-nah, Missouri and then to Council lilulfs Iowa where ho lilted out with ox team for tho trip across tho pluins to Utah arriving in Salt Lake City in 1810 During his stay here ho rendered assistance as-sistance in protecting tho Saints aguinst the appronch of Johnson's Army. In tho move south ho wmt to Pay-son, Pay-son, lutcr going to Purmington from which place he came to Americun Eork In the year 1853, and on tho Uth of May 1874 married Lydln E. Hall, having lived at Amorican Fork till December 14 1900, the dute of his death. By Alice Moon, who is deceased, he is the i father of five children, four of whom survive him, and by Lydla E. Hall, who i is living, thirteen childi en nine of whom aro ullve. He hits forty one grand-j grand-j " children and twenty-three great grand 1 children. |