She was born as the family fled persecution that the Latter-day Saint Church members were suffering at Nauvoo, Hancok, Illinois.
Family lore relates she either died at birth, or shortly afterwards. The were encamped outside of Council Bluffs at the Carterville Settlement in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
About 300 Saints died at that location, but only a partial list of those buried has survived. Her mother died at the birth of a son while they were residing in that area.
Little evidence of the graveyard existed after 1890.
“ 'Old Mormon Cemetery’: Railroad Graders in Iowa Unearth Bones. Once Town, now Cornfield,” The Salt Lake Tribune ( Salt Lake City, Utah), 18 October 1902, in http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iapcgs/CemCartersville.html.
She was born as the family fled persecution that the Latter-day Saint Church members were suffering at Nauvoo, Hancok, Illinois.
Family lore relates she either died at birth, or shortly afterwards. The were encamped outside of Council Bluffs at the Carterville Settlement in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
About 300 Saints died at that location, but only a partial list of those buried has survived. Her mother died at the birth of a son while they were residing in that area.
Little evidence of the graveyard existed after 1890.
“ 'Old Mormon Cemetery’: Railroad Graders in Iowa Unearth Bones. Once Town, now Cornfield,” The Salt Lake Tribune ( Salt Lake City, Utah), 18 October 1902, in http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iapcgs/CemCartersville.html.
Family Members
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Louisa McCauslin Holden
1841–1917
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Martha A. McCauslin Handy
1843–1926
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William Younger McCauslin
1849–1865
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Sally McCauslin
1849–1851
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William McCauslin
1852–1918
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Mary Jane McCauslin Grier
1854–1939
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Sarah Annie McCauslin Rawlings
1855–1932
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Lydia Ellen McCauslin
1856–1857
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Caroline McCauslin Smith
1858–1930
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Jesse B. McCauslin
1860–1909
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George A. McCauslin
1862–1865
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Alonzo McCauslin
1865–1865
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Elizabeth Mahala McCauslin Saxey
1867–1933
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