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1847–1868

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Birth Date
30 April 1840
Death Date
5 September 1890
Gender
Female
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Ellen Gillespie

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  • Family Search list her name as "Helen", however all other records has her name as "Ellen".  Her surname is "Shields" on  the 1860 Utah census, burial record and Find A Grave website.

Moses Clawson Company (1853)

  • Age at Departure: 13

Traveled with

  • Peter Gillespie Jr. (Age: 61)
  • Martha Gillespie (Age: 51)
  • James Brigham Gillespie (Age: 18)
  • Mary Gillespie (Age: 10)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census, Tooele County.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "St. Louis Company report, 1853 June 30." In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 25)
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.