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Eliza Babcock Young Groves was born 8 October 1828 in Mina, Chautauqua County, New York, United States to Adolphus Babcock (1800-1872) and Jerusha Jane Rowley (1804-1850) and died 12 July 1868 Sugarhouse, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. She married Dominicus Carter (1806-1884) 1846 in Illinois, United States. She married Brigham Young (1801-1877) 1852 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. She married John Groves (1830-1897) 1853 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.

Brigham Young 1848 Pioneer Company

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After leading his first historic 1847 Vanguard Company to blaze the trail to the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young (1801-1877) and many of the others returned back to Winter Quarters to collect their families and the rest of the church.

This family was numbered with the 1229 pioneers in 397 wagons make the 1,031 mile trek in 86 days (May 26 to Sept 24) and would be amongst the first of hundred plus wagon trains that would make the same journey over the next 24 years.

Eliza started west in 1848. ELIZA broke her collar bone at the Elk Horn River, and it is speculated that she may have returned to Winter Quarters, not coming to Utah until 1853 in the Wilkin Company.


Marriage and Family

Married Brigham Young (1801-1877) before 1853. Divorced in 1852. No Children from that marriage.

Eliza obtained a divorce from Brigham Young on Dec. 4, 1851. She remained in Utah and married John Groves. Eliza had children, but all died in infancy.








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