UTAH PIONEER: Crossed the plains as a teenager with her parents in Abraham O. Smoot's Hundred, part of which arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley 25 Sep 1847.
From her husband's history:
In early 1855 Thales made a trip home to visit his family, where he met a woman by the name of Hannah Maria Woodbury. Thales asked Hannah to marry him at some future date and then he returned to Santa Clara. He went back to Salt Lake in the fall of 1855 and married Hannah on 4 October 1855. The newlyweds traveled together to Santa Clara where they helped grow and harvest the first cotton crop in Utah. On 21 June 1857, after only twenty months of marriage, Thales' pregnant wife was accidentally shot and killed by an Indian boy who was cleaning a gun nearby.
DEATH DATE: The tombstone has the year 1856, but the stone is a modern stone, erected many decades after her death. Her history (in the History of the Jeremiah Woodbury family book) has 1857 and describes the events of the year and a half that they were married before her death.
From her husband's history:
In early 1855 Thales made a trip home to visit his family, where he met a woman by the name of Hannah Maria Woodbury. Thales asked Hannah to marry him at some future date and then he returned to Santa Clara. He went back to Salt Lake in the fall of 1855 and married Hannah on 4 October 1855. The newlyweds traveled together to Santa Clara where they helped grow and harvest the first cotton crop in Utah. On 21 June 1857, after only twenty months of marriage, Thales' pregnant wife was accidentally shot and killed by an Indian boy who was cleaning a gun nearby.
DEATH DATE: The tombstone has the year 1856, but the stone is a modern stone, erected many decades after her death. Her history (in the History of the Jeremiah Woodbury family book) has 1857 and describes the events of the year and a half that they were married before her death.
UTAH PIONEER: Crossed the plains as a teenager with her parents in Abraham O. Smoot's Hundred, part of which arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley 25 Sep 1847.
From her husband's history:
In early 1855 Thales made a trip home to visit his family, where he met a woman by the name of Hannah Maria Woodbury. Thales asked Hannah to marry him at some future date and then he returned to Santa Clara. He went back to Salt Lake in the fall of 1855 and married Hannah on 4 October 1855. The newlyweds traveled together to Santa Clara where they helped grow and harvest the first cotton crop in Utah. On 21 June 1857, after only twenty months of marriage, Thales' pregnant wife was accidentally shot and killed by an Indian boy who was cleaning a gun nearby.
DEATH DATE: The tombstone has the year 1856, but the stone is a modern stone, erected many decades after her death. Her history (in the History of the Jeremiah Woodbury family book) has 1857 and describes the events of the year and a half that they were married before her death.
From her husband's history:
In early 1855 Thales made a trip home to visit his family, where he met a woman by the name of Hannah Maria Woodbury. Thales asked Hannah to marry him at some future date and then he returned to Santa Clara. He went back to Salt Lake in the fall of 1855 and married Hannah on 4 October 1855. The newlyweds traveled together to Santa Clara where they helped grow and harvest the first cotton crop in Utah. On 21 June 1857, after only twenty months of marriage, Thales' pregnant wife was accidentally shot and killed by an Indian boy who was cleaning a gun nearby.
DEATH DATE: The tombstone has the year 1856, but the stone is a modern stone, erected many decades after her death. Her history (in the History of the Jeremiah Woodbury family book) has 1857 and describes the events of the year and a half that they were married before her death.
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