Betsy Prudence Howard

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868

Howard, Betsey Prudence

Birth Date: 22 June 1835
Death Date: 12 Jan. 1893 Gender: Female Age: 17 Company: James McGaw Company (1852)

SOURCE: http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,4018-1-...

Biographical Summary:

"...I wish to leave a short account of who I am to be read by some of my family. My father's name was Samuel Lane Howard. My mother's name was Betsy Pack. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the missionaries were first sent to England. We crossed the sea in the year 1844. We paid passage to Nauvoo. Our goods were moved to the flat boat to continue our journey to that place. Father was laid on his bed, blind and speechless with a fever. Mother was on another bed also sick. Brother Lorenzo Snow, being president of the company thought it would be wise for them to stay where they were, that was in St. Louis. They moved them from the boat. We were left strangers in a strange land, but the Lord was good to us. He raised up friends in our behalf. They buried a son thirty-six hours after we landed. That left three children, my brother, Samuel Lorenzo Howard, my sister Sarah Freelove Howard and myself, Betsy Prudence Howard. I started to cross the plains on June 20, 1852 in Captain McGaw's independent company. I arrived in Salt Lake Valley September 20, 1852 and was married to Thomas Bullock on December 9, 1852, I being his third wife. We had eight children, three of whom are living. He went to Nauvoo in the year 1843 and suffered with the Saints..."

SOURCE: Original source are family papers in possession of E. Gerald Bullock. Information retrieved online form http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/MTAF&CISOP... as quoted in Despain, C. Ward; Thomas Bullock Early Mormon Pioneer; masters thesis, Brigham Young University; 1956; pages 129-130.