She was one of a family of English mormons who were stranded in St. Louis.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
It was Emigrant Wash, up which the hardy mormons had toiled in their western pilgrimage, leaving at Lost Wagons and Salt Creek the bones of whole caravans as a tribute to the power of the desert.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
The mormons looked to the Morgans for safety; the Morgans to themselves.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman