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1847–1868

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Birth Date
17 May 1850
Death Date
6 June 1918
Gender
Female
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Ellen Britta Okelberry

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  • The Okelberry family sailed to America in 1863 on the ship John J. Boyd.  The ship manifest shows her name as "Elna Aakerberg."

    The inscription on her gravestone shows her name as "Ellen Anderson."

     

John Riggs Murdock Company (1863)

  • Age at Departure: 13

Traveled with

  • Paul Martensson Okelberry (Age: 56)
  • Kerstina Jonsson Okelberry (Age: 49)
  • Peter Okelberry (Age: 17)
  • Johanna Okelberry (Age: 10)
  • Kerstina Okelberry (Age: 7)

Sources

  • 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)
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America