• Although her death certificate records her birth year as 1831, in 1857 when performing a church ordinance, she stated that her birth year was 1830.

  She sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 26

Sources

• Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, 1856 October-December, 9 November 1856, 19.
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• 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.