The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: David Hughes
Surname: Peters

Gender: Male

Birth date: 10 March 1810

Birth place: Llanfair, Merionethshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 12 June 1898

Death place: Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 13 June 1898

Burial place: Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: Peter Hughes
Mother: Elizabeth Morris

Siblings

Davis/Davies, Laura (1817-1899)

Married 11 April 1840 in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, Wales

Children

Peters, Sarah
Peters, Laura
Peters, Elisabeth
Peters, John David
Peters, David Jones
Peters, William
Peters, Morris Rees
Peters, Thomas Davis
Peters, Peter Hughes

View Sources

Jones, Ann (1822-1863)

Married 20 September 1851 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1841 UK Census	Festinog, Merionethshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1850 US Census	, Salt Lake, Utah	Extract	Image
1860 US Census	Willard, Box Elder, Utah	Extract	Image
1870 US Census	Three Mile Creek, Box Elder, Utah	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Brigham City and Box Elder Precinct, Box Elder, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 5 March 1849 aboard the ship Hartley.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 28 April 1849.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 13 September 2021), David Hughes Peters entry, George A. Smith/Dan Jones Company (1849).

"Saints by Sea," database and images (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 13 September 2021), David Peters entry, age 38, arrived 28 April 1849 on the Hartley.

Peters, Ann Jones Parry - Biography
Peters, David and Laura - Biography

The Call of Zion by Ron Dennis

Squires, Sarah Peters - Journal

"Rhyd Sarn" (Stone Path), the name of the little hamlet where David and Laura Peters lived when they converted to Mormonism, is still standing. It is located about 3 miles to the south of the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales. The building in the center of the photo is most likely where David and Laura lived. The building at the left is named "Hen Felin", meaning "Old Mill", and was owned and operated by David Peters as a woollen mill. Their baptisms and many others were likely performed in the stream that ran along side the mill. It was Elder Abel Evans who baptized David and Laura. See his full-length biography on this website.

David sold everything just before coming to America in 1849 on board the "Hartley". And since it was in the days before the Perpetual Emigrating Fund, David Peters generously paid the way for several others of the small branch. Lamentably, many of them fell victim to cholera when going from St Louis to Council Bluffs on the Missouri River. See "The Call of Zion: the Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration" for more details of the crossing of the "Hartley" and the "Buena Vista".