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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.