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1847–1868

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Birth Date
1 December 1849
Death Date
28 December 1927
Gender
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Elizabeth Edwards

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  • The Edwards family arrived in New York on 23 June 1864 via the ship The General McClellan. ​Elizabeth was traveling with her mother and siblings.

    Her surname is "Hanks" on the death certificate and Find A Grave website.

William S. Warren Company (1864)

  • Age at Departure: 14

Traveled with

  • Sarah Ann Edwards (Age: 45)
  • Edward Morgan Edwards (Age: 22)
  • William Edwards (Age: 20)
  • David Edwards (Age: 7)
  • Sarah Ann Edwards (Age: 5)

Sources

  • “Captain William S. Warren Company (third ox train), manifests, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 13)
  • Edwards, Elizabeth. "Biography" in Biographies of Elizabeth Edwards Hanks, Pioneer of 1864, Sarah and Morgan Edwards, Pioneer of 1864, and George William Hanks, Pioneer of 1857, Ilene Hanks Kingsbury (Salt Lake City, Utah: privately printed, [1944]).
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Hanks, Eliza Edwards, [Diary excerpt], in Josephine Peterson Hanks, Biography of William David Hanks, 4.
  • New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
  • "Old Resident of Paragonah Dies at Salt Lake City," Garfield County News , 20 Jan. 1928, [4].
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.