James G. Willie Emigrating Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Biography of Margaret Cunningham Binnall
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337880]
Identifier: MSS 2761
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This copy is very dark and difficult to read. Margaret Cunningham Binnall was born in 1845 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1921.
Dates:
1958
Biography : Margaret C. Kirkwood
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341023]
Identifier: MSS 2562
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1940