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Margaret Elzirah Rawlins

Margaret Elzirah Rawlins[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Female 1848 - 1865  (17 years)

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  • Name Margaret Elzirah Rawlins 
    Born 30 Apr 1848  Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 16 Sep 1865  Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 11, 12] 
    • died in childbirth
    Person ID I9665  Main Tree
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2009 

    Father Harvey McGalyard Rawlins,   b. 14 Feb 1825, Apple Creek, Greene, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Sep 1913, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Margaret Elzirah Frost,   b. 28 Apr 1830, Knox, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Apr 1920, Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years) 
    Married 3 Dec 1846  Nishnabotna, Atchison, Missouri, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18] 
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Family ID F1025  Group Sheet

    Family Robert Marion Kerr,   b. 14 Jul 1829, Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Aug 1891, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 27 Mar 1863  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 19] 
    Notes 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Children 
     1. George Mccaslin Kerr,   b. 16 Mar 1864, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1864  (Age 0 years)
     2. Joseph William Kerr,   b. 16 Mar 1864, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 May 1864, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. James Harvey Kerr,   b. 11 Sep 1865, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jan 1893, Richmond, Cache, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 27 years)
    Family ID F865  Group Sheet

  • Photos
    Margaret Elzirah Rawlins    		Margaret Elzirah Rawlins
    Robert Marion Kerr    		Robert Marion Kerr
    James Harvey Kerr    		James Harvey Kerr

    Documents
    Margaret Elzirah Frost 1877 Patriarchal Blessing    		 Margaret Elzirah Frost 1877 Patriarchal Blessing

    Histories
    A Sketch of the life of My Grand Mother Margaret_Elzirah_Frost_Rawlins_This_was_given_by_Elva_Arminta_Rawlins_Hogan    		A Sketch of the life of My Grand Mother Margaret_Elzirah_Frost_Rawlins_This_was_given_by_Elva_Arminta_Rawlins_Hogan

    Margaret EIzirah Frost Rawlins , was born 28 April 1830. at Knox County, Tennessee. She was the youngest of a family of eight children. When a small child she moved with her parents to Jefferson County , Iowa .
    Being the youngest and no other small children, her Father was very fond of her and with him she spent many hours singing to him and playing with shavings as he worked at his carpenter's bench.
    She was baptised in 1842 by her only brother Samuel B, Frost who was the oldest of the family .
    Life History of
 Margaret_Elzirah_Frost_Rawlins_As_written_by_Margaret_and_her_granddaughter_Eulalia_Eulalie_L_Taggart    		Life History of
 Margaret_Elzirah_Frost_Rawlins_As_written_by_Margaret_and_her_granddaughter_Eulalia_Eulalie_L_Taggart
    [From "Glimpses" Compiled by Lyle Rawlins. Scanned into my computer from a typed copy in my possession January, 1997.

    My great-great grandparents were James Frost and Isabell Vandyke. There is no dates of these. Cencus records of 1790 for North Carlina gives the following. James Frost lived in Salisbury Dist Rockingham Co. North Colina. His family included himself, wife six sons under 16 year and two daughters.
    Margaret_Elzira_Frost_Rawlins_A_Talk_With_My_Grandmother_By_Mildred_Leavitt_Last.doc     		Margaret_Elzira_Frost_Rawlins_A_Talk_With_My_Grandmother_By_Mildred_Leavitt_Last.doc

    Margaret Elzira Frost Rawlins was born on the 28th of April 1830 in Knox County Tennessee. She told me the following about her pioneer live.
    Though she was young she remembered some things about the Prophet Joseph Smith.
    Margaret_Elzira_Frost_Rawlins_by_Janice_Last_Castleton_from_DOU_Pioneers.doc    		Margaret_Elzira_Frost_Rawlins_by_Janice_Last_Castleton_from_DOU_Pioneers.doc
    BIRTH DATE; Born 28 April 1830 Place: Knox, Tennessee
    DIED ; 4 April 1920 at Lewiston, Cache County, Utah
    PARENT'S FULL NAMES
    Father: McCaslin Frost
    Mother: Penina Smith Frost
    PIONEER; Arrived in Salt Lake City on 12, Oct. 1848 Came in Cover Wagon with the Andrew Cunningham Company.
    SPOUSE: Harvey Mccalyard Rawlins
    MARRIED 3 Dec. 1846
    MARRIAGE PLACE: Nishnabothna, Atchison, Missouri
    SPOUSE DIED 9 Sept. 1913
    PLACE DIED: Lewiston, Cache County, Utah

  • Notes 
    • From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

      CENSUS: 1851 Utah,Salt Lake City, film 0924039, Harvey Rawlins age 26 , born in Ill, farmer,h ouse 0578, Margaret-age 3, born Iowa.

      SOURCE: Sketch of Jane Sharp Rawlins, by Ina Danielsen Burton Arrived with family in the Salt Lake Valley 19 Oct. 1848. Margaret's first child, a little girl Margaret Elzirah was born on April 30, 1848, and when but two weeks old they started west to make the journey to the Rocky Mountains

      IGI 6010645 shows year of birth as 1847

      ~Web_Links: Photo young woman http://www.rawlins.org/histories/graphics/fullsize/1000a1.p1.jpg

      ~RESEARCH: Marriage date is later than sealing to spouse date with Rawlins, Harvey M.; age 3; p. 126; b. IA with Rawlins, Harvey M.; age 12; b. TIA

      CENSUS: 1850 census Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory film 025,540, pg. 80 Harvey M. ralins, wife Margaret and two children, Margaret 3 and Jane 6 months, also on same page his brother Joseph Sharp Rollins, wife -Mary and family, James Rollins 57 and wife Jane 57 and younger children still at home.

      Aerial Alfonzo Rawlins, told his son Bruce and others that James Rawlins family lived close to prophet, Joseph Smith's home in Nauvoo and that their children played together before Joseph's death and exodus across the plains in 1847. Margaret was reported born in Iowa in census, which puts them in first companies crossing the plains in 1847. Child not mentioned with other family members in Richmond ward records, either she died before then or was married young.

      CENSUS: 1851 Utah,Salt Lake City, film 0924039, Harvey Rawlins age 26 , born in Ill, farmer,h ouse 0578, Margaret-age 3, born Iowa.

      SOURCE: Sketch of Jane Sharp Rawlins, by Ina Danielsen Burton Arrived with family in the Salt Lake Valley 19 Oct. 1848. Margaret's first child, a little girl Margaret Elzirah was born on April 30, 1848, and when but two weeks old they started west to make the journey to the Rocky Mountains

      IGI 6010645 shows year of birth as 1847

      CENSUS: 1850 census Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory film 025,540, pg. 80 Harvey M. ralins, wife Margaret and two children, Margaret 3 and Jane 6 months, also on same page his brother Joseph Sharp Rollins, wife -Mary and family, James Rollins 57 and wife Jane 57 and younger children still at home.

  • Sources 
    1. [S41] Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins Autobiography, Margaret and Granddaughter Eulalia L. McCaslin.

    2. [S8] Family Records: Rawlins, Julia Whitney, Julia Whitney Rawlins.

    3. [S149] Harvey M. and Margaret Frost Rawlins, Compiled by Nellie Rawlins.

    4. [S28] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997), Ref for marriage M183395..

    5. [S30] Family Records: Young, Sara., Young, Sara.

    6. [S29] Family Records: Young, Sara -- CD, Sara Young, (Receive on CD January 2001).

    7. [S41] Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins Autobiography, Margaret and Granddaughter Eulalia L. McCaslin, On the morning of 30 April 1848 there came a baby girl to the home of Harvey and Margaret..

    8. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), On the morning of April 30, 1848 a baby girl, Margaret Elzira, came to gladden the home of.

    9. [S28] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997), Source Batch Number M183395.

    10. [S63] Journal of Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins, Source Batch Number M183395.

    11. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), in Oct. 1865 they returned to Draper to learn the sad news of the death and burial of their.

    12. [S63] Journal of Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins, in Oct. 1865 they returned to Draper to learn the sad news of the death and burial of their.

    13. [S63] Journal of Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins.

    14. [S396] Harvey M. Rawlins Family records in possession of Velma Rawlins; Ref Prev Marriages Book A1 P age 24, 1913 to 1942; Early.

    15. [S507] Marriages--Missouri to 1850, (Ancestry.com).

    16. [S149] Harvey M. and Margaret Frost Rawlins, Compiled by Nellie Rawlins, The spelling of the location of the marriage varies with different sources. Nellie Rawlins.

    17. [S28] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997), Reference M183395 Shows marriage date as 26 March 1857. All family records show it as show.

    18. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), That fall in early December he, together with his brother Joseph S. and wife went to Mishmo.

    19. [S148] Rawlins, Harvey McGalyard - History of, Lyle Rawlins, compiler, (From "Glimpses"), In March 1863 their daughter Margaret Elzira married Marion Kerr and moved to Richmond to l.


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