According to Joni Utter Anderson, who is a descendant of this Abraham Utter, he "had an illegitimate son before he married, with a woman named Jane Gould who never married. The boy was never included in the family, but Abraham sent money to Jane to help with his son, Lee Emerson Gould." The name of this son is more probably Pryor Emerson Lee Gould as according to David Schichner.