Born in 1787 in England, just north of Nottingham, George Brewerton was middle class, married Ann Pilley, and was able to get his kids some education.  He died in England in 1854.

This information is taken from “Pioneers, Patriots, and Saints: Ancestors of Edgar Odell Wake and Siblings.”  Additional genealogical information is available at the FamilySearch web site.

In 1826 Charles Wake was born in England, where he grew up to be a tailor.  He married Elizabeth Thompson, and they began building a family.  Missionaries converted them, so they traveled across the Atlantic on the “Siddons,” in what turned out to be an easy voyage.  Elizabeth died in Illinois, and Charles married Emma Shefford.  They crossed the plains, circling the wagons at nights, and reached Centerville, north of Salt Lake.  Crop failures and livestock deaths followed, though, and as soon as the transcontinental railroad arrived, Charles and Emma headed east to Nebraska.  His son James was not about to abandon the Saints and leave Zion, and at the last minute his son Robert ran off to find and stay with James.  Years later James and Robert went to Nebraska to pay a surprise visit to their father in his store, and he was delighted to see and recognize them.  In Columbus, Nebraska, Charles was an assessor, deputy sheriff, member of the Reorganized LDS church, and a charter volunteer fireman.  He died in Nebraska in 1910.

Born in England in 1829, Elizabeth Thompson married Charles Wake and had three children.  After meeting the missionaries they joined the Church and sailed across the Atlantic in good weather on the “Siddons,” but she died in Illinois in 1859.

Ann Pilley was born in England in 1795.  Her oldest daughter was baptized and emigrated to America to join the Saints, and then her other children joined the Church.  Ann Pilley was baptized just before her husband George Brewerton died, and thereafter crossed the Atlantic on the ship “Samuel Curling” with a remaining son, who died in Kansas.  She lived in Deseret for four years, and died in 1859 in Salt Lake City.

Thomas William Brewerton, born in 1825 in England, joined the Church and then served as a missionary there.  He baptized Sarah Ann Crooks and later married her, and worked as a miller.  Eventually they sailed on the “Old England,” on which he and another man led the emigrating Saints.  Surviving a cholera outbreak in New Orleans, they headed west in a wagon train.  He defended Deseret against the Army during the Utah War, as part of the Nauvoo Legion, Company B, 5th Battalion of the 4th Regiment; his brother-in-law told of drinking bacon grease for coffee while waiting for Buchanan’s Blunder to sally forth.  Thomas Brewerton joined the local dramatic society with his wife, and served his community as the mayor of Willard on the northeastern edge of the Great Salt Lake, as justice of the peace, as postman, and as a county selectman, before dying there of pneumonia in 1898.

Born in 1829 in England, Sarah Ann Crooks was taught the gospel by missionary Thomas William Brewerton, who she later married, and together they traveled to the United States, sailing on the “Old England” and arriving in New Orleans during a cholera outbreak.  She was stricken with cholera, and had to wait to recover before she and her husband could travel west.  In Utah she joined the local dramatic association with her husband; tickets to a play cost either money or a bag of flour.  She died in Willard, Box Elder County, Deseret in 1890.

James Wake was born in England in 1850, but wasn’t there long before his parents gathered to Zion.  When his parents quit and headed back east, James and his younger brother Robert stayed in Deseret, hauling timber and coal, and freighting to Montana.  Robert homesteaded at Grape Creek near Almo, Idaho, and when James married Eliza Brewerton they joined Robert in Idaho.  As adults, the brothers traveled to Nebraska to surprise their dad with a visit to his store; he recognized them immediately, and it was a joyful reunion.  James Wake died in Almo in 1911.

Eliza Brewerton was born in 1851 near Nottingham in England.  She met James Wake in Willard, Box Elder County, Deseret, and married him, and they moved to Almo, Idaho.  She served as the first Relief Society President in the Almo branch, and died in Almo in 1919.

Charles Francis Wake was the first of his line born in America, being born in Willard, near the northeast part of the Great Salt Lake, in 1875.  His parents moved to Almo, Idaho, and he lived there the rest of his life.  Despite asthma, he was a great singer.  Conditions in southern Idaho were rural and challenging.  He and his wife Janie did not get electricity until the 1940’s.  They had built a large herd in Almo, but a bad winter and the poor care of a person in Elba who was supposed to be watching the herd led to many deaths.  He built the herd back up, but lost it when he put it up as collateral for a loan his brother Joel wanted.  The family never recovered financially from that loss.  Charles Wake would not turn the ranch over to his sons, and after his death from a stroke, Joel and others claimed in probate a right to the ranch, and the family could not find the paperwork to prove that claim was bogus.  Janie’s brother Wesley Rice got the ranch at auction, and let Janie live there for the rest of her life.  Charles did not want his sons to go away to war, but three of them went to the Pacific during World War II.  One did not return, and the two who did only made it back after their father died at the ranch in 1944.