• 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

Sources

• "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.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• "The Dead," Deseret News, 24 April 1897, 608.
• Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.