Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 31 July 1826
- Death Date
- 16 February 1915
- Gender
- Female
Lydia Ardelicia Elinor Hunt
Alternate Names
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Lydia Ardelicia Elinor Gibson
Lydia was originally a member of the Mississippi Brethren group. After the Mississippi Brethren met with the Mormon Battalion, Lydia met and married Gilbert Hunt. Lydia's parents and siblings continued on to Utah with the Mississippi Brethren Company (1846). Lydia and her husband arrived in Utah with the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachment but was then sent to help settle San Bernardino, California. She was back in Salt Lake City before late 1858.
Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)
- Age at Departure: 20
Traveled with
Unknown Companies (1847-1868)
- Age at Departure: Unknown
Sources
- 1850 Utah Census.
- 1860 Utah Census.
- Book of the Pioneers, 1:15.
- "Dixie Pioneer Called," Washington County News, 18 March 1915, 4.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- "Mrs. Hunt, Pioneer of 1847, Answers Last Call," Deseret News, 16 Mar. 1915, 11.
- Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 247, 342.
- Salt Lake City, Utah Cemetery Records, 1848-1992.
- Utah Cemetery Inventory
- Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.