Eliza Elizabeth White Driggs

Eliza Elizabeth White, daughter of Henry Harvey White (1782 - 1840) and Rebecca Smith (1785 - 1867), was born 14 July 1812 at Chester, Windsor County, Vermont; and died 10 February 1896 at her home in Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah. She is buried with her husband at Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah, Plot A-09-003-12.

Eliza married Shadrach Ford Driggs (28 August 1813 Ashtabula County, Ohio - 26 October 1898 Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah), son of Urial Driggs (1780 - 1846) and Hannah Ford (1780 - 1848) in June 1836 in Ohio; they had twelve known children.

Eliza and Shadrach joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ohio, and traveled west with the main body of the church. They lived in Nauvoo for four years while Shadrach made wagons for other pioneers. Shadrach was 38 years old and Eliza was 39 years old when they and their children (Benjamin, aged 15; Hannah, aged 13; Appollos, aged 11; Isaac, aged 10; Parley, aged 7; Charles, aged 4; and Mark, aged 2.) crossed the plains to Utah in the Uriah Curtis Company. The company consisted of about 365 individuals and 51 wagons when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present-day Council Bluffs). They departed on 28 June 1852 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley at the end of September.

Less than two weeks after arriving in Salt Lake, Eliza gave birth to a daughter, Eliza, on the 11th of October 1852. The family settled in Pleasant Grove within a couple of months, where they eventually had two more children, Mary Melissa and Daniel Shadrach.

Shadrach also married Cecelia Harvey (1819 - 1905) on 30 March 1856 at Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory, with whom he had one known child.

Children of Shadrach and Eliza Driggs

(please note that vitals are not known for all of Shadrach and Eliza's children and the following list may not be in the exact order of birth):

1. Benjamin Woodbury Driggs (13 May 1837 Fredonia, Licking, Ohio - 1 October 1913)
2. Hannah Jane Driggs (5 June 1839 Fredonia, Licking, Ohio - 18 April 1908)
3. Apollos Griffin Driggs (12 October 1841 - 15 September 1918)
4. Isaac Ashton Driggs (23 January 1842 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois - 9 April 1874)
5. Parley Pratt Driggs (30 November 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois - 18 May 1919)
6. Charles Barnum Driggs (8 August 1847 Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa - 2 july 1927)
7. Ruth Driggs (5 December 1848 Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa - May 1849)
8. Mark Driggs (April 1850 Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa - April 1857)
9. Eliza M. Driggs (12 October 1852 Kaysville, Davis, Utah Territory - 9 December 1914)
10. Daniel Shadrach Driggs (25 January 1853 Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah - 22 November 1927)
11. Mary Melissa Driggs (23 January 1855 Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah - 11 April 1929)
12. Malinda Driggs

Death Notice

The death is announced of Eliza E. Driggs, in her eighty-fourth year, at Pleasant Grove, Monday morning at 2:30 o'clock. She was the wife of S.F. Driggs. They were the parents of the numerous Driggs family in this State. She was born in the town of Chester, Chittenden county, VT., July 14, 1812, joined the Church in the early days, and was with the Saints in all their early scenes of persecution. Her husband made many of the wagons, some without iron, for the migration of the people from Nauvoo, and who is yet working at the wagon making trade in Pleasant Grove.

Sources

• Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: Eliza Elizabeth White Driggs
• 1880 United States Federal Census. Name: Eliza Deggs [Eliza Driggs] ; Age: 66; Birth Year: abt 1814; Birthplace: Vermont; Home in 1880: Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah; Race: White; Gender: Female; Relation to Head of House: Wife; Marital Status: Married; Spouse's Name: Shaderach Diggs; Father's Birthplace: Vermont; Mother's Birthplace: Vermont; Occupation: Keeping House; Household Members: Shaderach Diggs 66; Eliza Deggs 6; Cecelia Deigs 61; Sarah Harvey 81. Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah; Roll: 1339; Family History Film: 1255339; Page: 301B; Enumeration District: 089. Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 38512
• Deseret News, February 15, 1896, Page 15, Col. 3
• Utah Cemetery Inventory. Name: Eliza Elizabeth W. Driggs; Birth Date: 14 Jul 1812; Birth Place: Vermont; Death Date: 10 Feb 1896; Cemetery: Pleasant Grove City Cemetery; Source: Sexton Records / Grant; Grave Location: A-09-003-12; Relatives: Father Henry White; Mother Rebecca Smith. Source Information: Utah State Historical Society, comp.. Utah Cemetery Inventory [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: Utah State Historical Society. Utah Cemetery Inventory. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: 2000.

Links

• Driggs Foundation
• http://atthecounter--christensen.blogspot.com/p/shad.html
• http://www.concentric.net/~pvb/GEN/sfdriggs.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driggs_family