Cynthia Durfey

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Silas Richards Company (1849) Age 37

Departure: 10 July 1849 Arrival: 25-29 October 1849

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GEDCOM Note

Durfey — At Deweyville, Box Elder County, Utah, February 20, 1883, after an illness of one year with dropsey, Cyntha Durfey. She was born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, November 30th, 1811. Was married to Elias Bowen in 1829; received the Gospel in 1830; moved to Ohio in 1838. In 1846, in company with her husband and several of his relatives, she left Ohio to join the Saints at the Bluffs. Her husband died in St. Joseph. His relatives turned back, leaving Sister Cyntha and three children sick and unable to care for themselves in the woods near St. Joseph. She finally, through much affliction, reached the Bluffs in the spring of 1847. Was married to Francello Durfey, November 27th, 1848; reached the valleys in 1849; located in Ogden; accompanied her husband on the Salmon River mission in 1855; was for a short time the only woman in the mission. In the spring of 1860 removed to Deweyville. She was a faithful officer in the Relief Society; was the mother of six children, and leaves four children, thirty-four grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. Her remains were conveyed to Providence, and there placed by the side of the remains of her late husband. [Desert News, March 7, 1883]