The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Elizabeth Leyshon
Surname: Evans

Gender: Female

Birth date: 25 December 1800

Birth place:
English Spelling: Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Casnewydd, Monmouthshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 16 April 1887

Death place: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: April 1887

Burial place: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: John Evans
Mother: Mary Davies

Siblings

William Rees (1802-1875)

Married 30 June 1830 in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Children

View Sources

1841 UK Census	Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales	Extract	Image
1880 US Census	Spanish Fork City and Precinct, Utah, Utah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 17 April 1855 aboard the ship Chimborazo.
Arrived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States on 21 May 1855.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org : accesesd 4 December 2019), entry for Elizabeth Leyshon Rees, age 58, Company Unknown, 1860.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org : accessed 4 December 2019), entry for Elizabeth Leyshon Rees, age 53, Charles A. Harper Company, 1855.

"Saints By Sea," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu : accessed 4 December 2019), entry for Elizabeth Rees, age 54, arrived 21 May 1855 in Philadelphia on the Chimborazo.

Chimborazo - Account of Crossing
Harper, Charles - Company crossing
Jeremy, Thomas - Account of crossing
Rees, Joseph Alexander - Biography

"Married to William Rees Sr., traveled to Utah with her husband, three sons (William Jr, David, and Joseph), daughter-in-law (Elizabeth Covington Rees) and grandchild, John Laramie Rees. They came on the ship Chimborazo in 1855.
After her husband became dissatisfied with the Church, she went back to Wales with him (sometime after 1857) and all but son David.
She returned to Utah alone" in 1860. (summary provided by Pioneer Database)

Elizabeth Leyshon Evans

Siblings