Welcome to the web site of the George and Ann Prior Jarvis Family Association. It is hoped that this site will not only provide information about George and Ann Prior Jarvis, their family, and ancestors but also help forge a sense of community among their descendants.

Association membership is open to all descendants of George and Ann Prior Jarvis. For information about the association, please contact the president, David Cottam Osborn at:

For further information, please see:

Purpose of this site:
President Joseph Fielding Smith said "It remains the responsibility of each individual to know his kindred dead. . . . Even if the [temple] work is done, then it is still each person's responsibility to study and become acquainted with his ancestors."1

This is a Family History web site. Although it contains some genealogical information, most of the contents are personal histories and stories of the George and Ann Prior Jarvis family. My hope is that this web site will help us, the descendants of George and Ann Prior Jarvis, become acquainted with and perhaps know and understand a little of the lives of those family members who have gone before us.

--Mark Jarvis, webmaster  

1President Joseph Fielding Smith, quoted in Hearts Turned to the Fathers: A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994 (1995), 184.

Site Contents

• What's New! Click to see details on new material that has been added recently. Latest: Life of Mary Forsyth, wife of Brigham and an oral history of Joseph DeFriez, son of Samuel Walter --August 21.
• Family chart and links Chart of the members of the George and Ann Prior Jarvis family with links to the web pages about them.
• George and Ann Prior Jarvis journals, histories, photos, etc.
  Family journals, histories, photos, and information of and about George and Ann Prior Jarvis--where possible by those who were there.
• Miscellaneous material pertaining to George and Ann Prior Jarvis
  Various documents, etc. that pertain to the parents and family of George and Ann Prior Jarvis
• Histories of the children of George and Ann
  Family journals, histories, photos, and information of and about the lives of the children of George and Ann Prior Jarvis.
• Histories of the grandchildren of George and Ann
  Information about the lives of the grandchildren of George and Ann Prior Jarvis.
• Stories (mostly true)
  They came home from church, opened the door, and their cow looked out at them . . . and other stories.
• Maps
  Birthplaces of Jarvis ancestors
• Genealogy Information
  . . . and his grandmother was . . .
• Reunion Schedule
  Come one! Come all!

Birthplace of George Jarvis, Harlow, Essex, England. Picture taken in 1977.