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1847–1868

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Birth Date
28 December 1850
Death Date
2 August 1947
Gender
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Mary Ellen Arthur

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  • Evidence from emigration and church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves the Arthur family traveled to Utah in 1863.Birth date is confirmed by the death certificate.The family may have traveled in the Rosel Hyde Company.

    Her surname is "Alstrom" on her death certificate and Find A Grave website.  She married John Godfrey Ahlstrom.

Company Unknown (1863)

  • Age at Departure: 12

Traveled with

  • Catherine Arthur (Age: 56)
  • Evan Arthur (Age: 56)
  • Elizabeth Catherine Arthur (Age: 20)
  • Edward James Arthur (Age: 18)

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)
  • “Stockton Pioneer Died Saturday Was 96 Years Old,” Tooele County Chronicle, 8 August 1947, 1
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.