BIRTHDATE: 1 Oct 1814

Pendleton, South Carolina

DEATH: 15 May 1892

Ogden, Weber Co., Utah

PARENTS: Jehu Hill

Martha "Patsy" Carlin

PIONEER: 2 Oct 1847

Jedediah Grant Wagon Train

SPOUSE: Charles Crismon

MARRIED: 6 May 1830

DEATH SP: 23 Mar 1890

Mesa, Maricopa Co., Arizona

CHILDREN:

Martha Jane, 8 May 1892

George, 5 Jul 1833

James, 8 Sep 1834 (died at age 3)

Esther Ann, 27 Nov 1835

Samantha, 27 Mar 1840

Mary Ann, 13 Feb 1842

Charles, 13 Jun 1844

Emily Precinda, 18 Jan 1847

Ellen, 18 Jul 1849

John Franklin, 14 Feb 1852

Cynthia Adeline, 14 Jun 1854

Walter Scott, 27 Aug 1856

Mary and her husband Charles joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in time to help with the exodus from Missouri. They had five children when they moved to the Nauvoo vicinity.

After the exodus from Nauvoo, they moved to help found the settlement of Ponco, 150 miles north of Winter Quarters.

Brigham Young called Charles to Mississippi to organize the Saints in that area and guide them to Utah. After accomplishing this, Charles returned to Ponco to bring Mary and the children. They traveled with the Jedediah M. Grant Wagon Company and arrived in Salt Lake Valley, October 2, 1847. Charles brought the machinery to set up a grist mill.

They were in the Valley when the crickets came and ate the grain. They witnessed the miracle of the sea gulls.

In 1849, they sold their property in Salt Lake and left for the gold fields of California. During the winter, the family moved to the Delores Mission, in San Francisco. There the children attended school and general living comforts were greater. When Charles C. Rich and Amasa Lyman called them to settle Southern California, they went gladly.

In 1851, Mary and Charles were able to give respite to Parley P. Pratt and his company as they journeyed to the Pacific Mission in the spring of 1851. They lived in San Bernardino until the Saints were called back to Utah in 1857.

In 1864, they were called to colonize the Bear Lake area of Utah. Charles had entered into polygamy. After four years in Bear Lake, he moved his families to Coalville where he and his sons were involved in coal mining.

In May of 1877, he and his son-in-law were called by the First Presidency to organize a company of interested families to settle in Southern Arizona.

Mary decided she had done enough pioneering and let Charles and his younger wives fulfill that call to Arizona. She was now sixty-three years old. Traveling was hard and often dangerous. The hardships of previous colonizing had taken it's toll on her.

Mary passed away in Ogden, Weber County, Utah, at the age of seventy-seven.