Why is the death date listed above as the 26th, when the grave maker says it is the 27th?
The death of Catherine Jones Bennett is mentioned
in the pioneer journal of Joel Hills Johnson a member of Catherine's handcart company who, incidentally, wrote the Mormon hymn, "High on a Mountain Top."
Catherine's death is also mentioned on the gravestone of her husband, Benjamin, in Holden, Millard County...
Johnson's journal entry said Bennett was buried near a Pony
Express station on the Muddy, a creek in Wyoming about a
100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
The Sept. 27, 1860, entry reads, "Started before breakfast,
traveld about 8 or 9 miles to the Station on the Muddy
near some Springs where we campt for the balance of the
day and night, at this place we buried Sister Bennett an
aged saint from England who died the day before." That would be the 26th.
The death of Catherine Jones Bennett is mentioned
in the pioneer journal of Joel Hills Johnson a member of Catherine's handcart company who, incidentally, wrote the Mormon hymn, "High on a Mountain Top."
Catherine's death is also mentioned on the gravestone of her husband, Benjamin, in Holden, Millard County...
Johnson's journal entry said Bennett was buried near a Pony
Express station on the Muddy, a creek in Wyoming about a
100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
The Sept. 27, 1860, entry reads, "Started before breakfast,
traveld about 8 or 9 miles to the Station on the Muddy
near some Springs where we campt for the balance of the
day and night, at this place we buried Sister Bennett an
aged saint from England who died the day before." That would be the 26th.
Why is the death date listed above as the 26th, when the grave maker says it is the 27th?
The death of Catherine Jones Bennett is mentioned
in the pioneer journal of Joel Hills Johnson a member of Catherine's handcart company who, incidentally, wrote the Mormon hymn, "High on a Mountain Top."
Catherine's death is also mentioned on the gravestone of her husband, Benjamin, in Holden, Millard County...
Johnson's journal entry said Bennett was buried near a Pony
Express station on the Muddy, a creek in Wyoming about a
100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
The Sept. 27, 1860, entry reads, "Started before breakfast,
traveld about 8 or 9 miles to the Station on the Muddy
near some Springs where we campt for the balance of the
day and night, at this place we buried Sister Bennett an
aged saint from England who died the day before." That would be the 26th.
The death of Catherine Jones Bennett is mentioned
in the pioneer journal of Joel Hills Johnson a member of Catherine's handcart company who, incidentally, wrote the Mormon hymn, "High on a Mountain Top."
Catherine's death is also mentioned on the gravestone of her husband, Benjamin, in Holden, Millard County...
Johnson's journal entry said Bennett was buried near a Pony
Express station on the Muddy, a creek in Wyoming about a
100 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
The Sept. 27, 1860, entry reads, "Started before breakfast,
traveld about 8 or 9 miles to the Station on the Muddy
near some Springs where we campt for the balance of the
day and night, at this place we buried Sister Bennett an
aged saint from England who died the day before." That would be the 26th.
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