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1847–1868

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Birth Date
23 May 1832
Death Date
22 April 1906
Gender
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Margaret Holt


Alternate Names

    Margaret Mather

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  • She married and was living in Utah until at least after 1860. She was buried in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and her grave marker records her birth and death.

    The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon. Birth date is confirmed by Salt Lake Seventeenth Ward records at the time of a rebaptism with her husband on 21 March 1857.

Edward Martin Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 24

Traveled with

  • Ellen Holt (Age: 44)
  • Robert Holt (Age: 42)
  • James Holt (Age: 21)
  • Daniel Holt (Age: 16)
  • Alice Holt (Age: 13)
  • Joseph Holt (Age: 11)
  • Martha Holt (Age: 5)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census.
  • Historians Office Record of Members (Minnie Margetts file).
  •   Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 1856, 68.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 228.
  • Seventeenth Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.