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1847–1868

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Birth Date
7 May 1846
Death Date
13 February 1927
Gender
Female
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Margaretta Easterday

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  • Daughter of Francis and Sarah Easterday. She came as a non-Mormon. The Easterday family traveled with the Pritchett company until Salt Lake City, Utah. They then continued on to Oregon and California.

    Her death certificate and gravestone show her name as "Margaretta Higginbotham," and they confirm her birth and death dates.

William D. Pritchett Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 18

Traveled with

  • Francis Marion Easterday (Age: 42)
  • Sarah Easterday (Age: 38)
  • William Thomas Easterday (Age: 20)
  • Elizabeth Hardin Easterday (Age: 15)
  • Sarah Frances Easterday (Age: 8)
  • John Davis Easterday (Age: 5)
  • Lucy Ellen Easterday (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1860 Missouri Census, Clinton County
  • Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery, reel 2, box 2, fd 14, item 5, 4-7.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Higginbotham, Margaretta Easterday, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake , 26 vols., 15:115.
  • "Services Tuesday for Mrs. M. E. Higginbotham," Salt Lake Telegram, 14 February 1927, 5.