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1847–1868

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Birth Date
22 December 1805
Death Date
8 November 1885
Gender
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Elizabeth Comish


Alternate Names

    Elizabeth Kegg

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  • Elizabeth crossed the Atlantic on the ship Kennebec in 1852 with eight children; she and her family do not appear on the Kennebec passenger list as published on the Mormon Migration website but they are on the original ship manifest.  (Her husband (William) and a daughter (Hannah) had emigrated in 1850.) The Comish family evidently began traveling across the plains in the Hindley company, but according to a "Deseret News" article (22 Aug. 1855, 189) they arrived in Salt Lake City with the Livingston and Kinkead freight train. Evidence that they came in 1855 is confirmed in information found in Church financial records. Their surname is spelled "Coomish" on the handwritten and printed Hindley roster.The family's travel is mentioned in her son's obituary.

John Hindley Company (1855)

  • Age at Departure: 50

Traveled with

  • William Comish (Age: 50)
  • Jane Helen Comish (Age: 23)
  • William Kegg Comish (Age: 22)
  • Elizabeth Comish (Age: 18)
  • John Comish (Age: 16)
  • Eleanor Comish (Age: 14)
  • Robert Nephi Comish (Age: 12)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census, Cache County.
  • 1870 Utah Census, Cache County.
  • "Died. Comish.", Deseret News [Weekly], 29 Nov. 1882, 720.
  • England Marriages, 1538-1973.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007.