Fan Chart--Grant Meldrum Heggie

Steven Lloyd Fletcher--Nola Jean Heggie--Grant Meldrum Heggie

John Duncan Heggie

Steven Lloyd Fletcher--Nola Jean Heggie--Grant Meldrum Heggie--George Smith Heggie--John Grant Heggie--John Duncan Heggie

This is information about Nola Jean Heggie's great great grandfather.  

Church History and Archive - Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel
1847-1868

Trail Excerpt by George Sims, Jacob Gates Company, 1853:
12 Thursday [May 1852 at Keokuk, Iowa]  Fine day. much warmer...Watch
appointed John Duncan Heggie...
16 Sep Friday...camped near Green River...Father Haggie [Heggie] broke his
legs...
30 Sep 1853- arrived Salt Lake City.

Stephen Forsdick, Autobiography, 14-15, Chp 12
...an old Scotchman, named Heggis [John Duncan Heggie] in getting out of a
wagon, while in motion fell and the wheel went over his leg breaking it.
He was put back in the wagon.  We fortunately had a man with us, who had
been a doctor in Liverpool, who set the fractured limb, but he was unable to
walk the rest of the way.
Soon after this we came to Independence Rock, on the Sweet water river,
named we were told because General Fremont had camped there on the Fourth of
July, some years ago...
...we entered the valley...the Mormon Zion, for which we had travelled so
far almost eight thousand miles....From the twenty-fifth of February until
June the first by water and from June first until September thirtieth
overland, a distance of fourteen hundred miles....

Look at these sites: Utah Digital Newspapers and
mormonhistoricsitesfoundation.org for a lot of interesting information.