BIRTHDATE: 10 Aug 1833

Carrelltown, Pickens, Alabama

DEATH: 23 Jun 1901

Parowan, Iron. Utah

PARENTS: Samuel Carson

Eliza Jane Adair Carson Pearson Price

PIONEER: 1851

SPOUSE I: David Lewis

MARRIED: 4 Aug 1852

Salt Lake Endowment House

DEATH: 2 Sep 1855

Parowan, Iron, Utah

CHILDREN:

Eliza, 18 Jun 1853

Elizabeth Ann, 29 May 1854

SPOUSE II: Tarleton Lewis

MARRIED: 1856

Parowan, Iron, Utah

DEATH: 22 Nov 1890

Teasdale, Wayne, Utah

CHILDREN:

Benjamin, 1 Feb 1858

William, Feb 1860

SPOUSE III: Neils Otto Mortensen

MARRIED: 1862 Parowan, Iron. Utah

DEATH: 7 Apr 1912

CHILDREN:

Marlin H., 5 Mar 1863

Neils Otto, 14 Mar 1865

Samuel Carson. 11 Sep 1867

Olive Melissa. 2 May 1869

Joseph Edgar, 4 Apr 1871

Elizabeth was converted to the LDS Church as a young woman in Mississippi. She left Mississippi in November of 1845 with her mother; step-father, John Price; her brother, Valentine Carson; and two half sisters. They arrived in Nauvoo on March 6, 1846 and moved on to Winter Quarters where they put in crops and worked at various jobs to get some means to travel to the Salt Lake Valley. They were finally able to start for the valley in the spring of 1851 and arrived in late summer of that same year.

Elizabeth married David Lewis in the Salt Lake Endowment House on August 4, 1852 and they had two children before she was left a widow at the age of twenty two with two small daughters. They had also purchased two Indian boys to save them from slavery. Elizabeth learned to understand and speak the Indian language and raised these boys to adulthood. She married her brother-in-law with the idea that he would take care of her. He was called to establish and supervise other settlements and left her in Parowan. They had two sons together, but she needed to go to work to support her family which now consisted of six children. One of her employers was Neils 0. Mortensen. She was providing care for his invalid wife. After his wife died in early 1862, the church sanctioned her marriage to Neils. They made their home on a farm west of Parowan. She was known as a welcoming hostess to the young people of the area, often having musical evenings and dancing parties in her home. She was an excellent cook.

Source:Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, page 2060, Daughters of Utah Pioneers