The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Margaret
Surname: Thomas

Gender: Female

Birth date: 25 March 1811

Birth place: Glamorganshire, Wales

Death date: 19 April 1887

Death place: Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States

Burial date: 1887

Burial place: Willard, Box Elder, Utah, United States

Father: William Thomas
Mother: Margaret Hopkins

Siblings

Thomas Pierce (1807-1863)

Children

"Mormon Migration," database and images (mormonmigration.byu.edu: accessed 20 February 2019), Margaret Pierce entry, age 54, arrived 6 June 1866 on the John Bright.

"Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel," database (history.lds.org: accessed 20 February 2019), Margaret Thomas Pierce entry, Samuel D. White Company (1866).

Margaret's first husband, Thomas Pierce, died in Wales in 1863. In 1866 Margaret brought her three children Catherine (age 8), Thomas (age 14), and Margaret (age 21) to America. She married John Edwards that same year, and one year later her daughter Margaret also became his wife.