• Daughter of John and Lucy Lavinia Van Cott. She traveled with her parents, grandmother, and sisters. In 1850, the Van Cott family lived together in Salt Lake City. By 1860, Martha had married William Price and lived with him in Goshen. Her birth date and death date are confirmed by her death certificate.

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 9

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 7.
• Sessions, Patty Bartlett, Diaries and account book, 1846-1866; 1880, vol. 1.
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
• Utah Death Certificates.