• Evidence from emigration and church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves the Abel family traveled to Utah in 1863.  The Abel family sailed to America in 1863 on the ship Cynosure. The ship manifest shows her age as being 3.

  Her surname on death certificate and gravestone show her married name of "Paxman."

Company Unknown (1863)

• Age at Departure: 7

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 566.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.