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Lucinda <I>Haws</I> Holdaway

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Lucinda Haws Holdaway

Birth
Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, USA
Death
7 Apr 1917 (aged 88)
Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA
Burial
Provo, Utah County, Utah, USA
Plot
Block 4 Lot 22
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Parents: Gilberth Haws and Hannah Whitcomb.

SUP-Pioneer Memorial Gallery Index Cards
Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 17
In Their Own Words

"On December 24,1848, I was married at the age of 21 years to Shedrick Holdaway, age 26. He was one of the 500 Mormon Battalion who volunteered to fight in the Mexican War. At the close of the war he went with part of the company to California. Here he was discharged from service in the Army. He was also among the first to find gold in California. Soon after, he came to Salt Lake Valley bringing with him about $2,000 worth of gold nuggets. The following March 1849, my father and family, together with thirty other families were called to go soutto Utah Valley to settle that part of the country. I did not go as I intended going back to the States with my husband to get some machinery for making woolen goods. We left Salt Lake City in company with thirteen others, among them Brother Lorenzo D. Young and wife and Doctor Bernhisel, who was going to Washington D.C. on business. Previous to leaving Salt Lake City we had prepared a water tight wagon box. We ferried ourselves across the Green River witoars in this wagon box. It served a very good purpose. We reached the Platte River which we had to cross on a rail. Here ten men of the company stopped to help ferry Saints across the river. Brother Young and his wife, Doctor Bernhisel, my husband and myself went on to Fort Laramie which was then an old Government station. The second day after we left the company, we began to meet train after train of gold seekers going to California."

Parents: Gilberth Haws and Hannah Whitcomb.

SUP-Pioneer Memorial Gallery Index Cards
Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 17
In Their Own Words

"On December 24,1848, I was married at the age of 21 years to Shedrick Holdaway, age 26. He was one of the 500 Mormon Battalion who volunteered to fight in the Mexican War. At the close of the war he went with part of the company to California. Here he was discharged from service in the Army. He was also among the first to find gold in California. Soon after, he came to Salt Lake Valley bringing with him about $2,000 worth of gold nuggets. The following March 1849, my father and family, together with thirty other families were called to go soutto Utah Valley to settle that part of the country. I did not go as I intended going back to the States with my husband to get some machinery for making woolen goods. We left Salt Lake City in company with thirteen others, among them Brother Lorenzo D. Young and wife and Doctor Bernhisel, who was going to Washington D.C. on business. Previous to leaving Salt Lake City we had prepared a water tight wagon box. We ferried ourselves across the Green River witoars in this wagon box. It served a very good purpose. We reached the Platte River which we had to cross on a rail. Here ten men of the company stopped to help ferry Saints across the river. Brother Young and his wife, Doctor Bernhisel, my husband and myself went on to Fort Laramie which was then an old Government station. The second day after we left the company, we began to meet train after train of gold seekers going to California."

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