Joseph Crumb Fackrell & Clarissa Dempsey

Joseph Crumb Fackrell & Clarissa Dempsey were Pioneers
(Parents of Lucy Fackrell, Mother of Jedediah Morgan Grant III, Father of Wilson May Grant, Father of Nelada Marie Grant)

Joseph and Clarissa were married on August 28, 1843.  There were fourteen children born to this couple.

            While living in Michigan in 1852, Joseph dreamed he went to Utah, saw a small house, water springs, and crystal snow covered mountains in the back ground.  He awoke but could not go back to sleep. The next day, while plowing in the field, he met a friend by the name of John Boyce and told him about his dream and said that everything was so natural.  The rest the next night wasn’t so good and when morning came, he and his wife prepared for the journey to Utah. 

Clarissa was driving the oxen and wagon all the way across the Plains while her husband helped with the cattle.  As she was driving around the mountains at the point of narrows, one of the oxen got the line over his horn and was taking the wagon and all over the bank.  Clarissa had several children in the wagon, three of whom were very ill with Mountain Fever.  Her sister-in-law was inspired to go back to check on Clarissa.  With a baby in her arms, she untangled the line, allowing Clarissa to get back to safety. 

            They arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1852. Upon arriving in Utah, Joseph found everything as he saw it in his dream.  He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and his wife and children were sealed in the Endowment House.