
Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 2 March 1828
- Death Date
- 21 September 1903
- Gender
- Female
Melissa Coray
Alternate Names
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Melissa Burton
Wife of William; laundress
Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)
- Age at Departure: 20
Traveled with
Sources
- Addison Pratt autobiography and journals, 1843-1852.
- Elijah Elmer diary in "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," edited by Will Bagley, Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7.
- "Events of the Month," Improvement Era, Nov. 1903, 72.
- Melissa Burton Coray Kimball in "Utah Woman's 2,000-Mile March Fifty-five Years Ago," Salt Lake Herald, 26 May 1901, 2.
- Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 31.