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1847–1868

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Birth Date
2 March 1828
Death Date
21 September 1903
Gender
Female
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Melissa Coray


Alternate Names

    Melissa Burton

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  • Wife of William; laundress

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 20

Traveled with

  • William Coray (Age: 25)

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.