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1847–1868

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Birth Date
15 June 1807
Death Date
15 September 1893
Gender
Female
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Mercy Rachel Thompson


Alternate Names

    Mercy Rachel Fielding

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  • Mercy traveled in the Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions company with her daughter, Mary Jane Thompson. She was a widow. According to 1850 census records, she lived together with her daughter in Salt Lake city in a house right next to the home of her brother, Joseph. Her date of death is confirmed by Utah, Salt Lake County death records.

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 40
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Mary Jane Thompson (Age: 9)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
  • Book of the Pioneers, Book 2, p. 279.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • “Pioneer Reminiscences—By One Who Crossed the Plains in 1847, Aged Nine Years,” Deseret Evening News, 21 May 1897, 8.
  • Sessions, Patty Bartlett, Diaries and account book, 1846-1866; 1880, vol. 1.
  • Thompson, M. J., "Early Church Recollections," Juvenile Instructor , 15 July 1897, 430-31.
  • Thompson, Mercy Rachel Fielding, Autobiographical sketch 1880, 11.
  • Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.