Elizabeth Robison

"Mormon Thunder" contains a letter from Grant to Susan Grant which talks about the family's travel to Utah in 1850. Further research is needed to determine the name of the pioneer company they traveled to Utah with.

Company Unknown (1850) Age at Departure: 47

   Head of Household

Traveled with

   James Henry Robison (Age: 19)

Julia Ann Robison Webb (Age: 13)
Clarinda Robison (Age: 10)
Charles William Robison (Age: 8)
Sarah Elizabeth Robison (Age: 2)
==Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868==

Robison, Elizabeth Squires

Birth Date: 24 Dec. 1802
Death Date: 25 Oct. 1890 Gender: Female Age: Unknown Company: 1847-1868 (Unknown Year of Travel)

Pioneer Information: She crossed the plains sometime before the 1850 Utah census (taken early in 1851). In the census the surname is "Robinson." Additional research is needed to determine the name of the pioneer company and the year she traveled.

SOURCE: http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/1,15791,401...

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Elizabeth is the daughter of Stephen Squier and Margaret Magee of Nicholson, Luzerne, Pennsylvania. She married William Henry Robison at age 20 in Charleston, Montgomery, New York. They made their home in Onondaga County New York where their first 8 children were born. They moved to detroit Michigan in the late 1830's where 2 more children were born. They were introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and soon removed to Nauvoo, Illinois where their son Theodore was born in 1844. Elizabeth was sealed to William Henry in the Nauvoo Temple. They were expelled with the Saints from Nauvoo in 1846 and went to Winter Quarters where William Henry Died of Cholera in November 1846. Elizabeth's oldest son Henry, promised his dying father that he would get the family to
Zion. He fulfilled that promise in 1849. They initially settled in Weber County Where her son Charles married and later settled St. Charles, Idaho (then Utah) with his wife. The family had settled in Millard County by 1870. The 1880 census shows Elizabeth living in Millard county with her Eldest son, Henry. Elizabeth shows up on the relief society rolls in Filmore from 1880 as a member and a teacher. Elizabeth and William Henry Robison are the parents of Jane Robison Pack, and Rosetta Robison Grant..

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