Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies, Graham to Hayes

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Mormon friends, the family of John Bitten. It is not known just what year this was , but is is known that she lived ih St. Louis and that she acted as seamstress for a Mrs. Kershaw , who later li ved in Ogden. 'While working there she met and fell in love with Alexander Graham. ~rhey were married somewhere aroung the year 1858 . Two children were born to them in St. Loui s , one of whom a son George died in infancy . The other a daughter Ja ne was bor.. . n in 1861. Like scores of others , their ambition was to unite with the Saints in Utah, so they crossed the plains with their babe about 1862~ving in Salt Lake City for two years . They were then called South to settle Deseret , and they with sev-eral others took their families and all their possessions ln a covered wagon through the sand and desert to establish a new home . 'rhey found this very difficult indeed . It was the year of the drouth and they suffered many hardshi ps . They had lived on bran for three weeks, but while .t.liaabeth was in bed with her third baby her husban~went around the little settlement, and neighbors scraped their flour bins and shook their sacks and managed to get enough flour together to make two small loave s of bread . She , however, like many self-sacrificing mothers , ate very li ttle of the bread herself, but fed her hungry little children . About this time, in 1866, her sister Mary Ann Grant living in j Oregon, and hearing of her distress, sent them aid and also fare to come to Oregon . It was the time of the gold rush, and she thought they would be able to obtain work there. They went by stage coach to Baker City, Oregon, but when they arrived, Aunt Mary's husband had died and thin~s were not so well as they had planned . The family remained in Baker near ly four years, and it was there her son ~< , Charles , was born, and she lay at death' s door for many weeks • Her h~sband was afraid her end was near , and he prayed to the Lord, 2