This is a picture of Harriett Heath Marler, wife of Allen Marler, Sr. and great- great grandmother of Don LeRoy Marler. Harriet along with her family of eight children, her husband, her brother and his two boys, and a Negro mammy left Port Gibson Mississippi in May of 1850 to travel up the Mississippi River to St. Joseph Missouri where they would join a wagon train that would take them to the Great Basin in the west to join the members of the Church. On the way up the Mississippi River the family contracted cholera and within less than a month's time, her husband, three daughters, two nephews, and a Negro mammy all succumbed to the disease.Her husband as he was dying, tried to convince her to return to Port Gibson and live with her parents. However, she was determined to be united with the Saints in the West. She purchased a team and wagon and supplies and joined a wagon train led by James Lake and traveled to the Great Basin.
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What a determined and strong women. I can see this trait passed down in many of the Marler women:)
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