• 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

Sources

• Captain William S. Warren Company (third ox train), manifests, 1864.
• 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]).
• 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.