Elizabeth is a daughter of Anna Lee [daughter of Williams Lee 1772-1839] and Abner Emery of Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were married 18 May 1824 at Asylum, Bradford County, Pennsylvania by Justice John Laporte.
It is believed she married George Washington Catlin about 1845 in Iowa.
They joined a group of LDS Church members who were determined to find homesteads in the Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory.
Their western trek set out from Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs) 21 June 1850 with the William Snow/Joseph Young Company (1850).
The wagon company had traveled but just one day when a two year old child of a "Brother Cole"; died of "bowel complaint" and was buried along the trail that evening.
By the sixth day a twenty six year old man with Cholera and also the four year old daughter of Elizabeth Marilla, Sarah Altana Catlin, died about four miles west of Rock Creek. Both were buried that evening, the 26th of June.
Grief stricken Elizabeth, her husband George Washington Catlin, and their infant daughter, Susan, along with one year old Elizabeth Marilla moved on with the wagon train along the dreary trail.
The next day two more children died with Cholera about five miles west of Salt Creek.
They had barely traveled about fifteen miles when, two days later, an eighteen year old boy also died of Cholera. The next morning a "Brother Joseph King" was stricken with the deadly malady and was dead by nightfall. It was Sunday so they remained in camp and prayed for good health and good weather.
After burying Brother King the following morning, two McClellan children were very sick; they all moved on about thirteen miles when one of the children died. By that time, it was the first of July. They buried the McClellan child and traveled another ten miles.
The next three days, it seemed the camp was in better health and they made better time. On the 4th of July, they came to Clear Creek, camping so that the women could spend time washing clothes.
It was about noon the next day when George's wife, Elizabeth Marilla, was taken sick. It is recorded in the William Snow Trail Journal that "she lived but a few hours".
She was buried near Clear Creek on the Mormon Trail; her husband and two little daughters continued to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving between the 1st and 4th of October 1850.
It is believed she married George Washington Catlin about 1845 in Iowa.
They joined a group of LDS Church members who were determined to find homesteads in the Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory.
Their western trek set out from Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs) 21 June 1850 with the William Snow/Joseph Young Company (1850).
The wagon company had traveled but just one day when a two year old child of a "Brother Cole"; died of "bowel complaint" and was buried along the trail that evening.
By the sixth day a twenty six year old man with Cholera and also the four year old daughter of Elizabeth Marilla, Sarah Altana Catlin, died about four miles west of Rock Creek. Both were buried that evening, the 26th of June.
Grief stricken Elizabeth, her husband George Washington Catlin, and their infant daughter, Susan, along with one year old Elizabeth Marilla moved on with the wagon train along the dreary trail.
The next day two more children died with Cholera about five miles west of Salt Creek.
They had barely traveled about fifteen miles when, two days later, an eighteen year old boy also died of Cholera. The next morning a "Brother Joseph King" was stricken with the deadly malady and was dead by nightfall. It was Sunday so they remained in camp and prayed for good health and good weather.
After burying Brother King the following morning, two McClellan children were very sick; they all moved on about thirteen miles when one of the children died. By that time, it was the first of July. They buried the McClellan child and traveled another ten miles.
The next three days, it seemed the camp was in better health and they made better time. On the 4th of July, they came to Clear Creek, camping so that the women could spend time washing clothes.
It was about noon the next day when George's wife, Elizabeth Marilla, was taken sick. It is recorded in the William Snow Trail Journal that "she lived but a few hours".
She was buried near Clear Creek on the Mormon Trail; her husband and two little daughters continued to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving between the 1st and 4th of October 1850.
Elizabeth is a daughter of Anna Lee [daughter of Williams Lee 1772-1839] and Abner Emery of Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were married 18 May 1824 at Asylum, Bradford County, Pennsylvania by Justice John Laporte.
It is believed she married George Washington Catlin about 1845 in Iowa.
They joined a group of LDS Church members who were determined to find homesteads in the Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory.
Their western trek set out from Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs) 21 June 1850 with the William Snow/Joseph Young Company (1850).
The wagon company had traveled but just one day when a two year old child of a "Brother Cole"; died of "bowel complaint" and was buried along the trail that evening.
By the sixth day a twenty six year old man with Cholera and also the four year old daughter of Elizabeth Marilla, Sarah Altana Catlin, died about four miles west of Rock Creek. Both were buried that evening, the 26th of June.
Grief stricken Elizabeth, her husband George Washington Catlin, and their infant daughter, Susan, along with one year old Elizabeth Marilla moved on with the wagon train along the dreary trail.
The next day two more children died with Cholera about five miles west of Salt Creek.
They had barely traveled about fifteen miles when, two days later, an eighteen year old boy also died of Cholera. The next morning a "Brother Joseph King" was stricken with the deadly malady and was dead by nightfall. It was Sunday so they remained in camp and prayed for good health and good weather.
After burying Brother King the following morning, two McClellan children were very sick; they all moved on about thirteen miles when one of the children died. By that time, it was the first of July. They buried the McClellan child and traveled another ten miles.
The next three days, it seemed the camp was in better health and they made better time. On the 4th of July, they came to Clear Creek, camping so that the women could spend time washing clothes.
It was about noon the next day when George's wife, Elizabeth Marilla, was taken sick. It is recorded in the William Snow Trail Journal that "she lived but a few hours".
She was buried near Clear Creek on the Mormon Trail; her husband and two little daughters continued to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving between the 1st and 4th of October 1850.
It is believed she married George Washington Catlin about 1845 in Iowa.
They joined a group of LDS Church members who were determined to find homesteads in the Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory.
Their western trek set out from Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs) 21 June 1850 with the William Snow/Joseph Young Company (1850).
The wagon company had traveled but just one day when a two year old child of a "Brother Cole"; died of "bowel complaint" and was buried along the trail that evening.
By the sixth day a twenty six year old man with Cholera and also the four year old daughter of Elizabeth Marilla, Sarah Altana Catlin, died about four miles west of Rock Creek. Both were buried that evening, the 26th of June.
Grief stricken Elizabeth, her husband George Washington Catlin, and their infant daughter, Susan, along with one year old Elizabeth Marilla moved on with the wagon train along the dreary trail.
The next day two more children died with Cholera about five miles west of Salt Creek.
They had barely traveled about fifteen miles when, two days later, an eighteen year old boy also died of Cholera. The next morning a "Brother Joseph King" was stricken with the deadly malady and was dead by nightfall. It was Sunday so they remained in camp and prayed for good health and good weather.
After burying Brother King the following morning, two McClellan children were very sick; they all moved on about thirteen miles when one of the children died. By that time, it was the first of July. They buried the McClellan child and traveled another ten miles.
The next three days, it seemed the camp was in better health and they made better time. On the 4th of July, they came to Clear Creek, camping so that the women could spend time washing clothes.
It was about noon the next day when George's wife, Elizabeth Marilla, was taken sick. It is recorded in the William Snow Trail Journal that "she lived but a few hours".
She was buried near Clear Creek on the Mormon Trail; her husband and two little daughters continued to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving between the 1st and 4th of October 1850.
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