These were the names of three African-American pioneers who settled in Utah in 1847 after they traveled with Brigham Young's caravan of Saints, said Ronald Coleman, who spoke at The Family History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' third annual African-American open house Saturday.

Known as "colored servants," the slaves were early converts to the LDS Church. Much like the Mormon pioneers, African-Americans headed west to escape religious persecution and to build Utah and become part of Zion, he said.

"By 1850, there were between 75 and 100 slaves residing in Utah Territory," Coleman said. "The majority were in Salt Lake County and small numbers in Davis and Utah County."

An Act in Relationship to Service legalized slavery in Utah in 1852. Congress abolished slavery in the territories 10 years later, Coleman said.

"Did slavery really discontinue? No idea," he said.

Some slaves who fled their Utah masters sought refuge at Brigham Young's home, he said.

"Slavery was never meant to flourish in the valley," said Coleman, a longtime history professor at the University of Utah, who received the governor's award for contributions to humanities in 2000.

The descendants of African-American pioneers still remain in the valley today, Coleman noted.

Following Coleman's speech, workshop participants could look for long-lost ancestors using the library's wealth of resources - among them, census records, Freedman's Bank records and the African-American Research Guide.

Dorothy Lamb, 73, was armed with a sheath of papers and a book of her family's history ready to go in search of her father's genealogy.

A native of Louisiana, she has lived in Utah since 1959 when she came to visit her sister.

She began her research at the Family History Library some years ago.

"I have gone back to five generations in my family's life," said Lamb. Some of her ancestors were slaves on the Linwood Plantation in Louisiana.

The book that she toted to the library contained a number of records, including census reports, photos of past and present relatives and the Linwood Plantation home. Several years ago, Lamb was shocked to find the military records of her father, William Carter, at the library.

Throughout the years, Lamb has made it a point to tell her family's history to the younger generation in her family.

On a trip to Louisiana in 1996, Lamb took her teenage grandsons to visit a slave house.

"They cried," she said.