Eliza Persis Rhead (1855 - 1943) Profile

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Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B

Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, Page 250.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B.

Rhead, Edward Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 27th Quorum, Biographies, 1850-1858

Rhead, Edward Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 27th Quorum, Biographies, 1850-1858, Vol. 1.

Emigrated to America, in the year of our Lord 1856. Left Liverpool Tuesday May 20th 1856 with Father, Mother and Sister Eliza Persis. Sailed on the ship Horizon, (Sailing vessell.) Landed at the City of Boston, Mass. after a voyage of about thirty-five days. From there took the cars to Iowa City. From Iowa City started across the Plains in brother Edward Martin's Hand Cart train; having traveled about one hundred miles, through my father's illness we stopped at a small town called Newton. 
The next Spring we moved &lt;to&gt; Des Moines City about 35 miles west where we lived till the Spring of 1861 when we emigrated to Utah, in Joseph Youngs train. We were about ten weeks on the Plains.

Transcript for Rhead, Edward Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 27th Quorum, Biographies, 1850-1858, vol. 1, n.p., in Seventies Quorum, Records, 1844-1975, reel 83

Rhead, Edward Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 27th Quorum, Biographies, 1850-1858.

Rhead, Josiah, [Excerpts from record book], in Edward H. Rhead, Journal and record book, 4

Rhead, Josiah, [Excerpts from record book], in Edward H. Rhead, Journal and record book, 4.

We were about thirty five days on our trip from Liverpool to Boston; we had a tolerable good passage. we took the cars at Boston, and traveled by rail, to Iowa &lt;arrived there July 8, 1856&gt; where we camped several weeks. We started from Iowa camp very late in the season, to cross the plains, in Edward Martins hand-cart company which suffered so severely from cold and hunger[.] a great portion of the company died of starvation and cold, before they arrived at Salt Lake City. It was our good fortune to be, detained in Iowa through sickness, after traveling with the company in the neighborhood of one hundred miles, we stoped at a small Town called Newton in Iowa, that fall and winter. The following spring we moved thirty five miles farther west to Fort Des. Moines Iowa, where we lived untill 1861 . .

Transcript for Rhead, Josiah, [Excerpts from record book], in Edward H. Rhead, Journal and record book, 4

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