Template:Wp-James Russell Ivie

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James Russell Ivie (December 30, 1802 – June 10, 1866) was a Mormon pioneer, member of Zion's Camp, and the first Presiding Elder of the community of Mount Pleasant, Utah, originally named Pleasant Creek for the beautiful area.

Ivie was born in Franklin, Georgia of European and Cherokee descent. He married Eliza McKee Faucett,^[1] also of mixed Euro-American and Cherokee^[2] ancestry in 1824 at Shelbyville, Tennessee.^[1]

James Ivie became one of the first members of the Latter Day Saint church, joining shortly after its founding in 1830, eventually laying the foundation of the Kirtland Temple.^[1][3] The family settled in Missouri and narrowly avoided the Trail of Tears expulsion of other Cherokee in the spring of 1838 despite their Cherokee ancestry, only to be expelled in November of that same year, due to their Mormon faith.^[4][5]

They settled near the new town of Nauvoo, Illinois,^[4] but moved to Iowa shortly after the first exodus in the spring of 1846. Eliza gave birth to a son in Council Bluffs on September 15 of that year, and to another on February 25, 1849^[4] at Salt Lake City, journeying west in 1848. James took the place of his son, Richard, in the United States Army, adopting his name and trekking over 2000 miles to San Diego to fight in the Mexican-American War.^[3]

Ivie's ancestry was thought to be useful in expanding the Mormon settlements to Sanpete County, so he was sent with Morley to lay out settlements in that area. His son James Alexander Ivie sparked the Wakara War, the culmination of a string of conflicts between the Ivies and tribes of other Native Americans.^[6] Despite this history of conflict, Ivie successfully negotiated peaceful settlement of the Wakara War^[7] and took up ranching near Scipio, Millard County, Utah. Ivie was killed by Black Hawk at the age of 65, an early fatality of the Ute Black Hawk War. His wife Eliza died at the age of 90.^[8]