John Emer Ashcroft (1865-1924) was born at Hyde Park, Utah, a Mormon and a son of Henry Ashcroft and Elizabeth Ann Barton. After his father died, his widowed mother married a Mormon widower with three small children in 1869. So John Bloomfield and Elizabeth Ann Barton united their families, and in 1877 were called to help colonize Obed (near Winslow), Arizona, then Ramah, New Mexico in 1882, and the Mormon colonies in Mexico in 1885. John Emer Ashcroft...