• Daughter of Ransom and Lucinda Van Leuven.  In 1850, the Van Leuven family was living in Missouri, according to census records. By 1860, they were located on the Utah census. She married John Clifford upon arrival to Utah. Their first child was born in Utah in 1854.

  The family's travel to Utah in 1852 is confirmed by the obituary of Eliza Jane.

   

Robert Wimmer Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 18

Sources

• "15th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• 1850 Missouri Census.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• "Eliza Merril Dies at Tropic," 14 March 1930, p. 1.
• Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937