Eliza spaulding biography
Margaret Ann Virginia (Moore) Spaulding (1849 - 1920) - WikiTree.
Eliza spalding biography
The American West: First Missionary Women At Rendezvous Were True Trailblazers
Anyone who has ridden in a wagon across the plains of Kansas and Nebraska knows it is not a smooth journey. But for Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, who crossed the region in 1836, the wagon she rode in was a great mode of transportation.
“If I had looked the world over I could not have found one more carefully and better qualified to transport a female such a distance,” she wrote her sister and brother back in New York.
Narcissa so badly wanted to engage in missionary work that she entered a marriage of convenience with Dr.
Marcus Whitman to gain the opportunity.
Eliza spaulding biography
For the trip west from St. Louis, the Whitmans were joined by missionary Rev. Henry Spalding and his wife Eliza. These two missionary wives would be the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains with a fur brigade and their husbands.
In St. Louis, the missionary couples had joined William Gray, three additional missionaries headed for th