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1847–1868

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Birth Date
21 March 1837
Death Date
7 November 1868
Gender
Female
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Maria Celeste Mathews

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  • After Ft. Laramie, the family joined the 1847 Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company.

Mississippi Company (1846)

  • Age at Departure: 8

Traveled with

  • Elizabeth Adeline Mathews (Age: 38)
  • William Mathews (Age: 37)
  • Thomas Marion Mathews (Age: 15)
  • Elizabeth Jane Mathews (Age: 14)
  • John Lynn Mathews (Age: 12)
  • Ezekiel Cunningham Mathews (Age: 10)
  • Elvira Narcissus Mathews (Age: 6)
  • Emma Louisa Mathews (Age: 1)

Sources

  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 10.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 342.