Ellis Ivory’s Legacy at This Is The Place Featured in Deseret News

August 9, 2024

From the Deseret News- “From Mathew to Ellis, Ivory footprints are all over This Is The Place”

“One hundred and seventy-seven years ago on July 22, Brigham Young and what is known as the Vanguard Company of pioneers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints camped in a clearing a few miles above the canyon they named, for obvious reasons, Emigration.

Young, who was sick with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an illness caused by burrowing ticks, directed Orson Pratt to handpick seven men to go with him to scout the place the canyon emptied into.

Among them was a 38-year-old Pennsylvanian named Mathew Ivory.”