• Maria crossed the Atlantic with John Garratt Chambers on the ship  Elvira Owen in 1853.  She is listed as Maria Duff on the ship's manifest. She traveled in the division headed by Captain Picton.

Cyrus H. Wheelock Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 18

Sources

• C. H. Wheelock Company report, 1853 September 19.
• Find a Grave
• "Maria D. Chambers," Deseret Evening News, 3 January 1894, 2.
• "Obituaries," Woman's Exponent, 1 March 1894, 104.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.