Daughter of William Goodwin Noble and Mary Ann Harper

Married Robert Leeming Fishburn, 3 Jun 1858, Lehi, Utah, Utah

Children - Eliza Priscilla Fishburn, Laura Maria Fishburn, Robert Leeming Fishburn, Francis William Fishburn, Aquilla Noble Fishburn, Henrietta Fishburn, Rachel Fishburn, Lavinia Fishburn, Leonora Louisa Fishburn, Zilphah Fishburn

Eliza Priscilla Noble was born in North Hamptonshire, England, April 3, 1836, the daughter of William Goodwin and Mary Ann Harper Noble. Being one of the older children of the Noble family, Eliza did much in helping the family while they lived in their native land, as well as being one of the first of this family to make the voyage to America. When the Elders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brought this family the Gospel, they joined the Church because they received a testimony of its truthfulness. They started at once to make preparations to come to Zion and join the Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. William Goodwin Noble, Eliza Priscilla's father, served a mission for the Church as a traveling Elder before he came to America. Eliza Priscilla was baptized a member of the Church in 1852 in England.

The William Goodwin Noble family consisted of nine daughters and two sons. Eliza Priscilla and her brother, Waterhouse Harper, came to America before the remainder of the family. Waterhouse Harper came February 22, 1854, on the ship Windemere, then Eliza Priscilla came on March 28, 1857, on the ship George Washington, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1857. The mother and father, one son and six daughters sailed on the ship William Tappscott on May 11, 1860.

Robert Leeming Fishburn came to America on the same ship as Eliza Priscilla. They had met at Bradford, England, March 20, 1857, where they both joined the Saints who were going to emigrate to America. The company left Bradford the following day for Liverpool, where they remained several days before sailing. From Boston, Massachusetts, they traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa, remaining there three weeks while waiting for their handcarts to be made ready. In the meantime, Robert Fishburn, and a few others, got work and made a few dollars which helped them on their trek westward. When everything was in readiness, the company started. Provided for the company were four mule teams to haul the tents, cooking utensils and surplus provisions. After resting several days at Florence, Nebraska, during which time supplies were assembled and loaded, the journey across the Great American Desert which now lay before them, was begun the latter part of June.

Pulling the same handcart with Robert Leeming Fishburn were three young ladies who came from Bradford, England: Eliza Priscilla Noble, Elizabeth Walker, and Sarah Pollard. They were good singers and in the evenings their songs helped to pass many pleasant hours. Robert played the violin, and made music while they danced. When they neared Laramie, Wyoming, their provisions were about exhausted, and they had not the slightest idea where they were going to procure any more. This gave them great uneasiness as they still had 500 miles to travel before reaching their destination. One night when camped a short distance west of Laramie, and they had finished a meager supper, a meeting was held. The Captain told them no one would go hungry between this point and Salt Lake City, but they would travel 14 miles the next day without breakfast to a place called Horse Shoe Creek where they would find flour. From this time on there was no worry about food. They reached the Valley a few days less than six months since leaving their native land.

Robert L. Fishburn stayed in Salt Lake City a few days, then went to Lehi with Israel Evans. The first work he had after arriving was making adobe, then working on a threshing machine, digging potatoes, hauling wood, etc. The following spring, June 3, 1858, Robert Leeming Fishburn and Eliza Priscilla Noble were married by Israel Evans and sealed in the Endowment House on November 17, 1862. Their worldly possessions consisted of a little clothing they had brought from England. Their first abode was a dugout. Robert managed to get poles out of which he made a bedstead, and a few pieces of boards from which he made a table and two stools. He bought an old bake skillet, paying $4.00. Eliza Priscilla did sewing for her neighbors and friends to help procure some of the necessities of life. Those were indeed hard times, yet Robert Leeming wrote "Notwithstanding our extreme poverty we enjoyed ourselves very well indeed."

Eliza Priscilla died at her home in Brigham City, Utah, June 30, 1905, and is buried in the Brigham City Cemetery. Robert Leeming Fishburn died Oct. 18, 1915 at Brigham City, Utah.