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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 April 1850
Death Date
8 May 1937
Gender
Female
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Mary Kaisa Ekstrom

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  • She was traveling with her younger sister, Caroline. Mary's autobiography indicates they were traveling in the company of Mormon elders traveling home to Utah. Her parents (Erik and Kaisa Ekstrom) and other siblings made the journey a couple years later in 1868.

Andrew H. Scott Company (1866)

  • Age at Departure: 16
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Caroline Ekstrom (Age: 14)

Sources

  • Captain A. H. Scott, accounts, 1866, in Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts, 1861-1868.
  • Holmstead, Mary Kaisa Ekstrom, Life history [ca. 1930s], [1].
  • "Mary Holmstead," Salt Lake Tribune , 9 May 1937, 10-B.
  • "Mary Holmstead," Deseret News, 10 May 1937, 14.