Married Martin DeWitt 8 March 1854. Children with Martin DeWitt:
Isabell Martha DeWitt Dixon (1855-1923)
Melissa "Mary" Jane DeWitt Houston (1857-1915)
Laura Amanda DeWitt Warburton (1858-1932)
Orpha Ann DeWitt Navarre (1860-@1900)
Amelia Eveline DeWitt Lambson (1862-1937)
Louisa Mindewell DeWitt Gardner (1866-1947)
William Martin DeWitt (1868-1910).
From her Obituary:
She was bornon March 8, 1828, and died August 16, 1917, aged 88 years. She was born in the state of Tennessee, Bedford County, at Nashville, later moving to Vandalia, Shelby County, Illinois, where she grew to womanhood, and crossed the plains in 1852.
Captain of the Ten was O. Smoot, father of Senator Smoot. They crossed with ox teams yoked to Pennsylvania tip-ups and after a journey beginning April 11, 1852, landed in the valley of Great Salt Lake, on September 4, 1852, after almost five months of desert and wilderness. There were 50 wagons in the company. On March 8, 1854, she was married to Martin DeWitt at Payson, Utah. Mr. DeWitt was a veteran of The Walker Indian War and was also the first man to carry mail back for which he received a gold medal.
Martha DeWitt knew the prophet, Joseph Smith well and heard him preach at Nauvoo, Illinois. She also knew Brigham Young, having been in his employ for about two years. She was married for 61 years, having only two deaths in the family in that time, and was the mother of six girls and one boy; grandmother of fifty-nine children, great grandmother of thirty-eight, and great, great grandmother of three.
She was one of the first white women to see the valley, as she was with her husband and family, settled on Antelope in the spring of 1880, where her son Wm. DeWitt went to school at Mrs. Tom Lemon's school. Mrs. Lemon taught school at the first school house built in the valley.
She witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake. She was driven with other people of her faith out of Nauvoo by the mobs. While crossing the plains she saw thousands of buffalo and remembered one herd that was all afternoon and evening in passing.
Martha observed the falling stars of 1833, a phenomonon that occurs every 33-34 years in the east.
Martha Isabelle DeWitt leaves two sisters, one at Oakland, CA and the other at Boise, ID. Also, five daughters, Mrs A. Larivee, Anaconda, MT; Mrs. R. Warburton, Grouse Creek, Utah; Mrs. S. Dixon, Boise, ID; Mrs. J. Gardner, Mackay, ID; Mrs. A. B. Lambson, Mackay, ID.
Isabell Martha DeWitt Dixon (1855-1923)
Melissa "Mary" Jane DeWitt Houston (1857-1915)
Laura Amanda DeWitt Warburton (1858-1932)
Orpha Ann DeWitt Navarre (1860-@1900)
Amelia Eveline DeWitt Lambson (1862-1937)
Louisa Mindewell DeWitt Gardner (1866-1947)
William Martin DeWitt (1868-1910).
From her Obituary:
She was bornon March 8, 1828, and died August 16, 1917, aged 88 years. She was born in the state of Tennessee, Bedford County, at Nashville, later moving to Vandalia, Shelby County, Illinois, where she grew to womanhood, and crossed the plains in 1852.
Captain of the Ten was O. Smoot, father of Senator Smoot. They crossed with ox teams yoked to Pennsylvania tip-ups and after a journey beginning April 11, 1852, landed in the valley of Great Salt Lake, on September 4, 1852, after almost five months of desert and wilderness. There were 50 wagons in the company. On March 8, 1854, she was married to Martin DeWitt at Payson, Utah. Mr. DeWitt was a veteran of The Walker Indian War and was also the first man to carry mail back for which he received a gold medal.
Martha DeWitt knew the prophet, Joseph Smith well and heard him preach at Nauvoo, Illinois. She also knew Brigham Young, having been in his employ for about two years. She was married for 61 years, having only two deaths in the family in that time, and was the mother of six girls and one boy; grandmother of fifty-nine children, great grandmother of thirty-eight, and great, great grandmother of three.
She was one of the first white women to see the valley, as she was with her husband and family, settled on Antelope in the spring of 1880, where her son Wm. DeWitt went to school at Mrs. Tom Lemon's school. Mrs. Lemon taught school at the first school house built in the valley.
She witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake. She was driven with other people of her faith out of Nauvoo by the mobs. While crossing the plains she saw thousands of buffalo and remembered one herd that was all afternoon and evening in passing.
Martha observed the falling stars of 1833, a phenomonon that occurs every 33-34 years in the east.
Martha Isabelle DeWitt leaves two sisters, one at Oakland, CA and the other at Boise, ID. Also, five daughters, Mrs A. Larivee, Anaconda, MT; Mrs. R. Warburton, Grouse Creek, Utah; Mrs. S. Dixon, Boise, ID; Mrs. J. Gardner, Mackay, ID; Mrs. A. B. Lambson, Mackay, ID.
Married Martin DeWitt 8 March 1854. Children with Martin DeWitt:
Isabell Martha DeWitt Dixon (1855-1923)
Melissa "Mary" Jane DeWitt Houston (1857-1915)
Laura Amanda DeWitt Warburton (1858-1932)
Orpha Ann DeWitt Navarre (1860-@1900)
Amelia Eveline DeWitt Lambson (1862-1937)
Louisa Mindewell DeWitt Gardner (1866-1947)
William Martin DeWitt (1868-1910).
From her Obituary:
She was bornon March 8, 1828, and died August 16, 1917, aged 88 years. She was born in the state of Tennessee, Bedford County, at Nashville, later moving to Vandalia, Shelby County, Illinois, where she grew to womanhood, and crossed the plains in 1852.
Captain of the Ten was O. Smoot, father of Senator Smoot. They crossed with ox teams yoked to Pennsylvania tip-ups and after a journey beginning April 11, 1852, landed in the valley of Great Salt Lake, on September 4, 1852, after almost five months of desert and wilderness. There were 50 wagons in the company. On March 8, 1854, she was married to Martin DeWitt at Payson, Utah. Mr. DeWitt was a veteran of The Walker Indian War and was also the first man to carry mail back for which he received a gold medal.
Martha DeWitt knew the prophet, Joseph Smith well and heard him preach at Nauvoo, Illinois. She also knew Brigham Young, having been in his employ for about two years. She was married for 61 years, having only two deaths in the family in that time, and was the mother of six girls and one boy; grandmother of fifty-nine children, great grandmother of thirty-eight, and great, great grandmother of three.
She was one of the first white women to see the valley, as she was with her husband and family, settled on Antelope in the spring of 1880, where her son Wm. DeWitt went to school at Mrs. Tom Lemon's school. Mrs. Lemon taught school at the first school house built in the valley.
She witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake. She was driven with other people of her faith out of Nauvoo by the mobs. While crossing the plains she saw thousands of buffalo and remembered one herd that was all afternoon and evening in passing.
Martha observed the falling stars of 1833, a phenomonon that occurs every 33-34 years in the east.
Martha Isabelle DeWitt leaves two sisters, one at Oakland, CA and the other at Boise, ID. Also, five daughters, Mrs A. Larivee, Anaconda, MT; Mrs. R. Warburton, Grouse Creek, Utah; Mrs. S. Dixon, Boise, ID; Mrs. J. Gardner, Mackay, ID; Mrs. A. B. Lambson, Mackay, ID.
Isabell Martha DeWitt Dixon (1855-1923)
Melissa "Mary" Jane DeWitt Houston (1857-1915)
Laura Amanda DeWitt Warburton (1858-1932)
Orpha Ann DeWitt Navarre (1860-@1900)
Amelia Eveline DeWitt Lambson (1862-1937)
Louisa Mindewell DeWitt Gardner (1866-1947)
William Martin DeWitt (1868-1910).
From her Obituary:
She was bornon March 8, 1828, and died August 16, 1917, aged 88 years. She was born in the state of Tennessee, Bedford County, at Nashville, later moving to Vandalia, Shelby County, Illinois, where she grew to womanhood, and crossed the plains in 1852.
Captain of the Ten was O. Smoot, father of Senator Smoot. They crossed with ox teams yoked to Pennsylvania tip-ups and after a journey beginning April 11, 1852, landed in the valley of Great Salt Lake, on September 4, 1852, after almost five months of desert and wilderness. There were 50 wagons in the company. On March 8, 1854, she was married to Martin DeWitt at Payson, Utah. Mr. DeWitt was a veteran of The Walker Indian War and was also the first man to carry mail back for which he received a gold medal.
Martha DeWitt knew the prophet, Joseph Smith well and heard him preach at Nauvoo, Illinois. She also knew Brigham Young, having been in his employ for about two years. She was married for 61 years, having only two deaths in the family in that time, and was the mother of six girls and one boy; grandmother of fifty-nine children, great grandmother of thirty-eight, and great, great grandmother of three.
She was one of the first white women to see the valley, as she was with her husband and family, settled on Antelope in the spring of 1880, where her son Wm. DeWitt went to school at Mrs. Tom Lemon's school. Mrs. Lemon taught school at the first school house built in the valley.
She witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake. She was driven with other people of her faith out of Nauvoo by the mobs. While crossing the plains she saw thousands of buffalo and remembered one herd that was all afternoon and evening in passing.
Martha observed the falling stars of 1833, a phenomonon that occurs every 33-34 years in the east.
Martha Isabelle DeWitt leaves two sisters, one at Oakland, CA and the other at Boise, ID. Also, five daughters, Mrs A. Larivee, Anaconda, MT; Mrs. R. Warburton, Grouse Creek, Utah; Mrs. S. Dixon, Boise, ID; Mrs. J. Gardner, Mackay, ID; Mrs. A. B. Lambson, Mackay, ID.
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