- Birth Date
- 20 November 1814
- Death Date
- 14 February 1890
- Gender
- Female
Orice Miller
Alternate Names
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Orice Burnham
Orice was a plural wife of Reuben Miller who crossed the plains in the Gully/Spencer Company of 1849 with two wagons and nine souls. Orice appears in the federal census 1850 as "Orisa" Miller living at Great Salt Lake City in Utah Territory with a one-year-old daughter named Mary E. who was born in "Deseret." Reuben re-baptized Orice on 1 November 1851; the baptism record lists her given name as "Orrice." In the 1856 Utah Territorial census she is "Orissa" Miller; in the 1860 census, her obituary, her burial records and Find A Grave memorial she is "Orice" Miller.
Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849)
- Age at Departure: 34
Sources
- 1850 Utah Census, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory.
- 1856 Utah census, Great Salt Lake County.
- "Deaths," Deseret Evening News, 15 February 1890, p. 3.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
- Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
- Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.