Born at Echo Canyon, Weber, Utah

Daughter of Henry Augustus Squires and Sarah Minnie Catlin

Married Reuben John Kirkham, 19 Oct 1876, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Children - Grace Eva Kirkham, Ida Levinia Kirkham, Daisy Elizabeth Kirkham, John Reuben Kirkham, Hazel Irene Kirkham.

Married David Brigham De Lee, 30 Mar 1892, Davis, Utah. Children - Claire Maxine DeLee, Echo Augusta DeLee, Elaine Litha DeLee.

History - Echo's father, Henry Augustus Squires, was a young Baptist minister who, along with his wife Sarah, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England in 1847.

Well-educated and a natural leader, Henry was soon made a branch president at the London Conference of the Church. In 1856, he, his wife, and their five young daughters immigrated to Utah as members of the ill-fated Martin Handcart Co. and were part of one of the most dramatic rescues in Mormon and Western American history. It was in Echo Canyon just above the Salt Lake Valley, on one of the last days of the difficult trek, that Sarah gave birth to their sixth daughter, Echo.

In Utah, Henry and Sarah had more children, and Henry became a successful merchant in Salt Lake City. By 1866, however, he left Utah and the Mormon Church, returned to England and his Baptist faith, and in the 1880s founded the Old Baptist Union, a church that grew to become international in scope. At first, Sarah stayed in Utah with their children, but then later joined him in England, leaving behind several of the older daughters who remained members of the Mormon Church in Utah. In England, Henry and Sarah had even more children, a total of 11 daughters and one son.

Histories abound with Henry and Sarah's pre-1866 pioneer experiences in the Martin Handcart Co., but they contain almost no mention of their lives after 1866. Likewise, because of early tensions between the Mormons and the Baptists, histories of the Old Baptist Union and the Squire family in England contain almost no mention of Henry and Sarah's Mormon experience. In some ways, when they left Salt Lake City in 1866, Henry and Sarah became lost once again—not too literal rescuers as they once were on the high plains of Wyoming in the Martin Handcart Co.—but to their own posterity and to what could be a more complete telling of their story.

From Patience Loader's journal:

I well remember that when we campt in Echo Canyon that Sister [Sarah Cattlin] Squires was confind in the morning[.] she had alovely baby girl and thay named her Echo [Levinia Squires.] the morning she was born the father [Henry Augustus Squires] was run[n]ing around camp enquiring of everybody if they had apin to give him to pin something around the baby but I don't think that he was able to get one[.] the breathren fixed the wagon very warm and comfortable for Sister Squires and boath her and baby ar[r]ived safe into the City. I will now conclud[e] my hard Journey across the plains by handcart and Say that we that lived through this terrable Journey Ar[r]ived in salt L city Sunday Noon the thirtieth day of November 1856.

Siblings - Clara Annie Squires, Sarah Augusta Squires, Rosetta Agnes Squires, Celestia Angelica "Lessie" Squires, Catherine Harriet "Katie" Squires, Grace Alice Squires, Thomas Henry Squires, Henrietta Ellen "Nettie" Squires, Mary Emily Squires, Ida Philla Squires, Florence Adelaide Squires