Hector McQuarrie, Agnes Gray, and Elizabeth McKillop McMurtrie

Hector McQuarrie's and Agnes Gray's lives are documented pretty well on FamilySearch. (Hector's profile here, Agnes' profile here.) Be sure to click on the "Memories" tab for each of them, and scroll down to "Stories." They each have several stories from their lives attached.

I do want to explain one thing that isn't completely clear in the records: Elizabeth McKillop McMurtrie's relationship to Hector McQuarrie. It is explained in one of the "Stories," but I missed it for a long time. If you've missed it, too, here it is in brief--Elizabeth McKillop McMurtrie was Agnes Gray's niece (daughter of Janet Gray). After Janet died, her husband, John McMurtrie, moved to Utah with his children and lived with Hector and Agnes for awhile. Hector and Elizabeth, who went by the nickname "Tibby," were sealed in 1885, but the government was cracking down on polygamy at the time, so she lived with her siblings instead. When Agnes became ill near the end of her life, Elizabeth moved in with Hector and Agnes to care for them. After Agnes' death, Elizabeth lived with Hector as his wife.