• She is the daughter of Margery McEwan Smith. She later married Orrice Clapp Murdock. Birth date confirmed by Lehi Ward records. Some census records list her given name as "May."

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• 1910 Utah Census.
• Bain, Euphemia Mitchell, “Pioneer Sketch,” in Daughters of Utah Pioneers (Salt Lake City, Utah), Scrapbooks.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 November 1856, 25.
• Lehi Ward, Record of Members. CR 375 8, Reel 3599.
• “Recent Deaths,” Deseret Evening News, 10 Oct. 1911, 3.
• Tanner, J. M., A Biographical Sketch of John Riggs Murdock [1909], 144, 206.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.