• Her death date is confirmed by her death certificate. Martha Jane, in her application to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1920, indicated that she and her family traveled in the Melvin Ross Company in 1850. Melvin Ross was a captain of ten in the 1850 Benjamin Hawkins Company.

Benjamin Hawkins Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 6

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census, Utah County.
• How Beautiful upon the Mountains: A Centennial History of Wasatch County (Heber City, Utah: Wasatch County Chapter, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1993).
• Utah Death Certificates.