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Show -- ONE Girl with a Heritage I On September 26, 1857, when the Latter-day Saints in the Salt Lake Valley converged on Pioneer Square to welcome the incoming immigrant company of Captain William G. Young, they witnessed the customary sight of several dozen covered wagons pulled by oxen. When they reached the outfit of Titus and Ann McMenemy Mousley they saw a stylish carriage and a two-seated buggy drawn by teams of fine horses. Stepping down from the buggy were the Mousley daughters, Sarah Maria and Ann Amanda, not grimy and unkempt from three months on the trail but dazzlingly brilliant in elegant bonnets and hooped skirts. They were the talk of the welcoming committee.' The girls, a younger sister, and their parents had come from a "plantation" at Centerville, Delaware, along Brandywine Creek, just north and west of Wilmington. George Mousley (originally Mosley), father of Titus, had migrated from England before the Revolutionary War, joined George Washington's army, and then married Catherine Poulson, a Swedish American. George and Catherine were the paternal grandpar ents of Sarah Maria and Ann Amanda. 3 |
