Jacques Alfred Messervy (1859-1921) was a pastor at the Reformed Church of France in Mantilly, Normandy, France who also helped compile a family history and pedegree of his family, many of who would eventually join the Mormon Church and move to Utah.

Monsieur Jacques Alfred Messervy was born in France in 1859. During much of his life between 1885-1894, he served as a minister in the Reformed Church of France in Mantilly, department of Orme, in lower Normandy. While serving in his church, he spent much of his spare time compilinge a pedigree and family history of his family. While this included the members of his family in France, it also included the Robert-Messervy family who, in 1853, left from their home in France to join the Joseph W. Young 76th Pioneer Company to Utah. Later in his life, he grew to be blind until, on April 9, 1921, he died in St. Helier's, Jersey.

Albion Keith Parris Meserve (1833-1904) was a respected physician who graduated from medical school in Maine in 1859 and spent time serving his community, including as a member of the Maine Historical Society where he took his spare time compiling his family's Genealogy.

Albion Keith Parris Meserve was born in Maine in 1833. After graduating from Medical School in 1859, he worked as a respected physician in the community. In his spare time, he also served his community in a variety of different ways, including serving in the Maine Historical Society where he spent some time compiling and publishing his family's genealogy. This, with the assistance of his distant relative Jacques in France, helped ensure that both the American and French branches of their family tree would be able to be completed. He was also active in religious affairs, having also been a member of the Congregational Church in Buxton and the Willston Church in Portland, Maine. On September 15, 1904, he died at his home in Portland, Maine.

Joseph Robert Meservy (1842-1924) was a Mormon pioneer from the British Isle of Jersey who moved to the Salt Lake Valley. While in his service to the Church, he served as a missionary, built the "Spanish Wall" in Salt Lake City, and served in various Church callings for thirty-five years until his death in Fremont, Idaho.

Joseph Robert Meservy was born in the British Isle of Jersey on April 30, 1842. After spending his childhood in French school, after his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints they emigrated to Utah in April 1853 via New Orleans. Once they arrived, he served in various positions in both Utah and Idaho for the Church. In addition to serving in various Church callings from being a missionary to serving as a clerk and MIA leader in his local ward, he also built the "Spanish Wall" in Salt Lake City to protect the city from Native American attacks, established various settlements in the "Mormon belt" from Santaquin, Utah to Franklin, Idaho, and aided other settlers to the region. After marrying Augusta P. Cook, Laura Stuttleworth, and Mary Kingsbury and having a total of fourteen children with the three wives, he died in Fremont County, Idaho on June 6, 1924.