Mary Ann Syer (1793-1882)

1856 Hunt Wagon Company
Mary Ann Syer White and several of her children were converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and joined many others in migrating to Utah in 1856. Their family were part of the 1856 Hunt Wagon Company that followed behind the ill-fated Martin Handcart Company. They witnessed much of the suffering of that group.


 * See the profile for her son Barnard White (1839-1912) for the story of this wagon crossing.