Shadrach Ford Driggs and Eliza Elizabeth White
Shadrach Ford Driggs and Eliza Elizabeth White
28 August 1813 - 26 October 1898 (Shadrach)
14 July 1812 - 10 February 1896 (Eliza)
Married
Shadrach Ford Driggs; was born on August 28, 1813, at Astabula Ohio to Urial Driggs and Hannah Ford. Shadrach died [see obituary] on October 26, 1898, in Pleasant Grove Utah and is buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Shadrach was among the pioneering members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who migrated westward from the Midwest into the Great Salt Lake basin in Utah.
Eliza White was born July 14, 1812 in Chester, Widsor, Vermont to Henry Harvey White and Rebeckah Smith. She died on February 10, 1896 and is buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Shadrach was 38 years old and Eliza White was 39 years old when they crossed the plains 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 June 28, 1852 and arrived in the Salt lake Valley between September 29th and October 1st 1852.
The children of Shadrach and Eliza who accompanied them were: Benjamin Woodbury aged 15, Hannah Jane aged 13, Appollos Griffin aged 11, Isaac Ashton aged 10, Parley Pratt aged 7, Charles Barnum aged 4, and Mark aged 2.
Eliza gave birth to a daughter, Eliza just a few days after arriving in the valley – on the 11th of October 1852. She and Shadrach then parented two more children after arriving – Mary Melissa and Daniel Shadrach.
Compiled by Ruth H. Barker, uploaded by Emily B. Farrer