Mary Jane was a daughter of Elizabeth Bell and William Bennett, Jr. of Sumner County Tennessee. She had ten known siblings.
She married Jesse McCauslin 4 April 1849 at Carterville Settlement, Pottawattamie, Iowa. He was a widower with a newborn son and two daughters.
She took over as mother to his young children and had a daughter of her own that December. They were residing with other Mormon Saints at a Settlement known as Carterville, near Council Bluffs.
The little family set out across the Great Plain, headed for a better home in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory. They traveled with an Unknown Company of Mormon pioneers.
Mary Jane and her little daughter, Sally, died one day apart from each other and were buried along the Mormon Trail, near what was known as the "Horn" of the Platte River.
Her husband carried on to the valley with his two daughters and young son; they arrived in Salt Lake that fall.
She married Jesse McCauslin 4 April 1849 at Carterville Settlement, Pottawattamie, Iowa. He was a widower with a newborn son and two daughters.
She took over as mother to his young children and had a daughter of her own that December. They were residing with other Mormon Saints at a Settlement known as Carterville, near Council Bluffs.
The little family set out across the Great Plain, headed for a better home in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory. They traveled with an Unknown Company of Mormon pioneers.
Mary Jane and her little daughter, Sally, died one day apart from each other and were buried along the Mormon Trail, near what was known as the "Horn" of the Platte River.
Her husband carried on to the valley with his two daughters and young son; they arrived in Salt Lake that fall.
Mary Jane was a daughter of Elizabeth Bell and William Bennett, Jr. of Sumner County Tennessee. She had ten known siblings.
She married Jesse McCauslin 4 April 1849 at Carterville Settlement, Pottawattamie, Iowa. He was a widower with a newborn son and two daughters.
She took over as mother to his young children and had a daughter of her own that December. They were residing with other Mormon Saints at a Settlement known as Carterville, near Council Bluffs.
The little family set out across the Great Plain, headed for a better home in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory. They traveled with an Unknown Company of Mormon pioneers.
Mary Jane and her little daughter, Sally, died one day apart from each other and were buried along the Mormon Trail, near what was known as the "Horn" of the Platte River.
Her husband carried on to the valley with his two daughters and young son; they arrived in Salt Lake that fall.
She married Jesse McCauslin 4 April 1849 at Carterville Settlement, Pottawattamie, Iowa. He was a widower with a newborn son and two daughters.
She took over as mother to his young children and had a daughter of her own that December. They were residing with other Mormon Saints at a Settlement known as Carterville, near Council Bluffs.
The little family set out across the Great Plain, headed for a better home in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory. They traveled with an Unknown Company of Mormon pioneers.
Mary Jane and her little daughter, Sally, died one day apart from each other and were buried along the Mormon Trail, near what was known as the "Horn" of the Platte River.
Her husband carried on to the valley with his two daughters and young son; they arrived in Salt Lake that fall.
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