Charlotte Rawlins

Alternate Names
Charlotte Downs (Married Name)
Charlotte Smith (Married Name)
Birth Date
On 1792 December 25 (Born)
Death Date
On 1863 January 23 (Died)
Gender
Female

Born in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States

1792 December 25
Mother
Anastatia Gregory
Father
Charles Rawlins

Date Details

Occurred On 1792 December 25

Baptized

1843 (Age 50)

Traveled in Company Unknown (1847-1868)

1847 – 1868 (Age 54) Pioneers in Company
Additional Information

Charlotte traveled to Utah in 1851 or 1852. She appears in the 1850 Iowa census, which was taken in November 1850. The first documentation to place her in Utah is a church ordinance performed 23 August 1852. She also appears in the 1852 Bishops' Reports in Salt Lake City. Further research is needed to determine the year she came to Utah and the name of the company she traveled with. Birth date is confirmed at the time of a rebaptism in the MIllcreek Ward on 15 October 1856. She later married John Glover Smith.

Her obituary, which shows her name as "Charlotte Down," states that at the time of her death, she was 71 years and 28 days old, which would make her birth date th date 26 December 1791.  The inscription on her gravestone shows her birth date as 21 December 1792 and confirms her deaas 23 January 1863.

Date Details

Started On 1847
Joined Company
Ended On 1868
Company Arrived

Married John Glover Smith

1855 October 2 (Age 62)

Died in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

1863 January 23 (Age 70)