• Daughter of Peter Burgess and Mary Alice Rostron who was born at Salt Lake City but traveled with her parents and siblings to St. Louis, Missouri in time for her younger brother (Peter Howard Burgess) to be born there in early 1858.  The family returned to Utah in 1864 and remained until her father died in early 1865.  They then returned to St. Louis where Martha is buried.

John D. Chase Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 8

Sources

• Captain John D. Chase Company (independent), passenger list, 1864.
• Find a Grave
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 20 September 1864, 3.
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 10 August 1864, 361.