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1847–1868

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Birth Date
23 November 1838
Death Date
17 March 1932
Gender
Female
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Isabella McMurrin


Alternate Names

    Isabella Sims

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  • Daughter of Joseph and Margaret McMurrin. She preceded her family to America and worked in Massachusetts for a few months before joining with her family to travel to Utah. According to the 1910 census, she immigrated in 1855; the 1920 census indicates it was 1856.

John A. Hunt Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 17

Traveled with

  • Margaret McMurrin (Age: 61)
  • Joseph McMurrin Jr. (Age: 35)
  • Margaret McMurrin (Age: 30)
  • Margaret McMurrin (Age: 10)
  • Mary McMurrin (Age: 8)
  • Jeanette McMurrin (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census.
  • 1910 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).
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • John A. Hunt Company report, 1856, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 14.