Harriett Woodbury

Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Jedediah M. Grant - Joseph B. Noble Company (1847) age 23

Departure: 19 June 1847 Arrival: 2 October 1847

Company Information: 171 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

birthdate from TIB

First marriage to orton Burns--left her as they were leaving Nauvoo. Child born later-- Miles Lamoni Burns or Miller

It was Genesee county until 1824 when it became Orleans

David Cazier, autobiography, typescript, BYU, Pg. 1

There was one man in camp by the name of Orten Burns who had married Josiah Miller's daughter Harriet, and all the property he had was one cow. While we were on the bank of the Mississippi waiting for the ferryboat, he concluded not to go any further, so he kissed his wife, took his cow and went back. I remember as a boy seeing his wife crying. She stayed with her father and gave birth to a boy child in the winter of 1846. After crossing the Mississippi we moved on and passed as it was a new found country, for we were now in Iowa, which was sparsely settled at that time. We hadn't gone far till we had to make our own roads. It rained and we traveled and camped sometimes a week in a place and then move on again.