• First documentation to place Matilda in Utah is ordinance work done in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City in December of 1864. However, sources indicate that her husband, Josiah, was traveling with family, so it is assumed that she and their children were traveling with him in 1856.

Josiah W. Hawkins Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 35

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census, Weber County.
• "Deaths," Deseret News, 29 September 1886, 592.
• Endowments of the living, 1851-1884.
• Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007.