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1847–1868

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Birth Date
16 January 1837
Death Date
16 February 1906
Gender
Female
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Mary Matilda McGaw


Alternate Names

    Mary Matilda Bassett

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  • James McGaw, and his wife Mary Matilda Bassett, traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with James as Captain of the James McGaw Company in 1852.  At the end of a mission, James returned home with the John Riggs Murdock Company in 1868.

James McGaw Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 15

Traveled with

  • James McGaw (Age: 27)

Sources

  • 11th Company of 50 record, 1852 June 17-September 20.
  • "Charles Henry Bassett, Mormon Pioneer," Hidden Valley Journal (November 1995): 67.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Powell, Delna Swapp, Eleventh Pioneer Emigration Company 1852 , [2002], p. 10, 14, 121, 123
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.