James G. Willie Emigrating Company
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Mildred Johnson collection of biographies
Photocopies of typewritten biographies. The items deal with the Rowley family in the Willie handcart company of 1856 and the Rowley family in Utah. These materials were probably written by the same author at an unknown time.
Biography : Margaret C. Kirkwood
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaret Campbell Kirkwood was born in 1810 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah with the Willie handcart company. The biography is mainly an account of Margaret's ordeal on the trek to Utah. Margaret lost the use of one eye because it was frozen. She died in 1893.
Sketch of Catherine Cunningham Adams : taken from the other biographies and Church history
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biogaphy of Catherine Cunningham Adams. Adams was born in Scotland in 1838, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie handcart company in 1856. She married, had 11 children, and died in 1912.