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Amanda Ellen Hollingshead
She was the daughter of Isaac and Mercy Wilcox Hollingshead, but at the age of two weeks she was given to Dicy Perkins who was the only mother she ever knew. Her own mother died at her birth. She crossed the plains as a "Perkins."
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Amanda Ellen Hollingshead (1838 - 1903) Profile