Date Unknown

Birth Date: 22 June 1844

Death Date: 17 March 1927

Gender: Female

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Martha Jane Shelton

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

Traveled with

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).