Mary Wheeler

Mary initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with her family in the James McGaw Company in 1852, as indicated in Perpetual Emigrating Fund General Files and Delna Swapp Powell’s book. 

She traveled with her step-father, William Wheeler, and mother Mary Coombs Bradley-Wheeler, and sister, Elizabeth, from Liverpool, England, on the ship “Ellen Maria” with 378 Saints. She and her mother died on July 21/22 of cholera when the company was about 14 miles west of Spring Creek. Her step-father and sister reached the Salt Lake Valley with the company.