• She came from England with her brother William Benjamin Hodgetts, the company captain.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 15

Sources

• "Elderly Woman Was Early Pioneer Here," Garfield County News, 26 January 1939, 8
• England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
• Hodgetts, Emily, Autobiographical sketch, item 3, 37-39, in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Garfield County Chapter, Biographies and History of Garfield County Pioneers.
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 2.
• Lowder, Emily Hodgetts, Reminiscences, 5.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
• "Oldest Resident of Southern Utah Passes at Age of 102," Garfield County News, 28 January 1943, 1.
• Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 7, p. 424
• W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.