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1847–1868

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Birth Date
11 November 1859
Death Date
1 January 1968
Gender
Female
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Hilda Anderson


Alternate Names

    Hilda Erickson

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  • Hilda was the daughter of Pehr Andersson and Maria Catherina Larsson.  In Utah she married John A. Erickson.

    Her obituary indicates that at the time of her death, she had been the last surviving pioneer who traveled to Utah before the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.

Abner Lowry Company (1866)

  • Age at Departure: 6

Traveled with

  • Marie Catharina Anderson (Age: 47)
  • Claus Anderson (Age: 12)

Sources

  • 1870 Utah Census.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Erickson, Hilda Andersson, Interview, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1966, 19-20.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 22 October 1866, 3.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
  • "Utah's Last Original Pioneer Dies At 108," Deseret News, 2 January 1968, B1.