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1847–1868

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Birth Date
3 May 1831
Death Date
16 April 1897
Gender
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Ann Herbert

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  • Ann crossed the Atlantic on the ship Thornton with her three-year-old son Charles Martin Herbert and her sixteen-year-old sister Hannah Herbert in 1856.  While crossing the plains she married Richard Godfey, a fellow passenger from the Thornton (see page 18 of the James G. Willie Emigrating Journal.)  Her surname was Rynearson at the time of her death.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 25
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Hannah Herbert (Age: 15)
  • Charles Martin Herbert (Age: 3)

Sources

  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
  • James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
  • Josiah Rogerson, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 [No. 1]," Salt Lake Herald, 15 December 1907, 5.
  • Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914.
  • Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 218.
  • "The Dead," Deseret News, 24 April 1897, 608.
  • Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.