Daughter of Jonathan Harriman Hale and Olive Boynton
Married Lucas Hoagland, 24 Dec 1848, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Daughter - Olive Margaret Hoagland
History - About the time Rachel was born the parents became interested in Mormonism and were baptized. They sold their business and followed the migrations of the Church through Ohio, and Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rachel grew to young womanhood.
After the martrydom of the Prophet, Bishop Hale took his family with other exiled Saints to Winter Quarters and here he, his wife, and two little daughters died, leaving Rachel alone with three younger brothers. It had been her father's wish that the family go to Utah, but it was two years before they had acquired enough to make a start.
While in Nauvoo, Rachel met a young man named Lucas Hoagland, who was born in Oakland county Michigan, January 27, 1827. When the call came for the Mormon Battalion, Lucas joined and was a member of the sick detachment which arrived in Salt Lake valley the latter part of July, 1847 from Pueblo, Colorado.
He immediately returned to Council Bluffs to assist Rachel and her brothers on the trek across the plains. Soon after their arrival in the valley with the Heber C. Kimball company of September 23, 1849, Rachael and Lucas were married.
Lucas bought an outfit for freighting from pay he had received for army service and left for California. He did not return for a year and a half. During this time a baby girl, Olive, was born. When Lucas returned he took his wife and child to San Bernardino with him.
Rachel became very ill when she lost a premature child, and for lack of medicine and proper care, dropsy set in and she became totally blind. The dark days and painful nights continued until on May 6, 1854, Rachel Hale passed away at age twenty-five. She was the first white woman to be buried there.
Several years later Lucas married Harriett Wamford, a native of Cambridge, England. They were the parents of six children. — Mary Hale White
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 4, p. 479
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Heber C. Kimball Company (1848); Age at Departure: 18
Married Lucas Hoagland, 24 Dec 1848, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Daughter - Olive Margaret Hoagland
History - About the time Rachel was born the parents became interested in Mormonism and were baptized. They sold their business and followed the migrations of the Church through Ohio, and Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rachel grew to young womanhood.
After the martrydom of the Prophet, Bishop Hale took his family with other exiled Saints to Winter Quarters and here he, his wife, and two little daughters died, leaving Rachel alone with three younger brothers. It had been her father's wish that the family go to Utah, but it was two years before they had acquired enough to make a start.
While in Nauvoo, Rachel met a young man named Lucas Hoagland, who was born in Oakland county Michigan, January 27, 1827. When the call came for the Mormon Battalion, Lucas joined and was a member of the sick detachment which arrived in Salt Lake valley the latter part of July, 1847 from Pueblo, Colorado.
He immediately returned to Council Bluffs to assist Rachel and her brothers on the trek across the plains. Soon after their arrival in the valley with the Heber C. Kimball company of September 23, 1849, Rachael and Lucas were married.
Lucas bought an outfit for freighting from pay he had received for army service and left for California. He did not return for a year and a half. During this time a baby girl, Olive, was born. When Lucas returned he took his wife and child to San Bernardino with him.
Rachel became very ill when she lost a premature child, and for lack of medicine and proper care, dropsy set in and she became totally blind. The dark days and painful nights continued until on May 6, 1854, Rachel Hale passed away at age twenty-five. She was the first white woman to be buried there.
Several years later Lucas married Harriett Wamford, a native of Cambridge, England. They were the parents of six children. — Mary Hale White
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 4, p. 479
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Heber C. Kimball Company (1848); Age at Departure: 18
Daughter of Jonathan Harriman Hale and Olive Boynton
Married Lucas Hoagland, 24 Dec 1848, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Daughter - Olive Margaret Hoagland
History - About the time Rachel was born the parents became interested in Mormonism and were baptized. They sold their business and followed the migrations of the Church through Ohio, and Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rachel grew to young womanhood.
After the martrydom of the Prophet, Bishop Hale took his family with other exiled Saints to Winter Quarters and here he, his wife, and two little daughters died, leaving Rachel alone with three younger brothers. It had been her father's wish that the family go to Utah, but it was two years before they had acquired enough to make a start.
While in Nauvoo, Rachel met a young man named Lucas Hoagland, who was born in Oakland county Michigan, January 27, 1827. When the call came for the Mormon Battalion, Lucas joined and was a member of the sick detachment which arrived in Salt Lake valley the latter part of July, 1847 from Pueblo, Colorado.
He immediately returned to Council Bluffs to assist Rachel and her brothers on the trek across the plains. Soon after their arrival in the valley with the Heber C. Kimball company of September 23, 1849, Rachael and Lucas were married.
Lucas bought an outfit for freighting from pay he had received for army service and left for California. He did not return for a year and a half. During this time a baby girl, Olive, was born. When Lucas returned he took his wife and child to San Bernardino with him.
Rachel became very ill when she lost a premature child, and for lack of medicine and proper care, dropsy set in and she became totally blind. The dark days and painful nights continued until on May 6, 1854, Rachel Hale passed away at age twenty-five. She was the first white woman to be buried there.
Several years later Lucas married Harriett Wamford, a native of Cambridge, England. They were the parents of six children. — Mary Hale White
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 4, p. 479
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Heber C. Kimball Company (1848); Age at Departure: 18
Married Lucas Hoagland, 24 Dec 1848, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Daughter - Olive Margaret Hoagland
History - About the time Rachel was born the parents became interested in Mormonism and were baptized. They sold their business and followed the migrations of the Church through Ohio, and Missouri, to Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rachel grew to young womanhood.
After the martrydom of the Prophet, Bishop Hale took his family with other exiled Saints to Winter Quarters and here he, his wife, and two little daughters died, leaving Rachel alone with three younger brothers. It had been her father's wish that the family go to Utah, but it was two years before they had acquired enough to make a start.
While in Nauvoo, Rachel met a young man named Lucas Hoagland, who was born in Oakland county Michigan, January 27, 1827. When the call came for the Mormon Battalion, Lucas joined and was a member of the sick detachment which arrived in Salt Lake valley the latter part of July, 1847 from Pueblo, Colorado.
He immediately returned to Council Bluffs to assist Rachel and her brothers on the trek across the plains. Soon after their arrival in the valley with the Heber C. Kimball company of September 23, 1849, Rachael and Lucas were married.
Lucas bought an outfit for freighting from pay he had received for army service and left for California. He did not return for a year and a half. During this time a baby girl, Olive, was born. When Lucas returned he took his wife and child to San Bernardino with him.
Rachel became very ill when she lost a premature child, and for lack of medicine and proper care, dropsy set in and she became totally blind. The dark days and painful nights continued until on May 6, 1854, Rachel Hale passed away at age twenty-five. She was the first white woman to be buried there.
Several years later Lucas married Harriett Wamford, a native of Cambridge, England. They were the parents of six children. — Mary Hale White
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 4, p. 479
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Heber C. Kimball Company (1848); Age at Departure: 18
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