Biography
Maria Celeste Mathews Donnal was born 21 March 1837 in Stanford, Monroe County, Mississippi, United States to William Mathews (1808-1888) and Elizabeth Adeline Henderson (1807-1875) and died 7 November 1868 Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. She married William Donnal (1834-1870) 1851 in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.
Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company
Numbered amoung the participants in the Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train that left Mississippi in 1846 to join the Mormon exodus to Utah. This group Brigham Young's vanguard company and spent the winter of 1846/47 at Fort Pueblo where the were joined by soldiers of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion. They reached Salt Lake City in late summer of 1847.
After the arrival of the family in the Valley, they went to Cottonwood, where they established a home until called to help with the settlement of San Bernardino, California. When the Saints were called back to Utah in 1858, the Mathews family settled in Beaver. William and Elizabeth were the parents of eleven children, namely: Thomas Marion, Jane Elizabeth, John Lynn, Ezekiel Cunningham, MarieCelesta, Elvira, Narcissa, Nancy Melissa, Benjamin, Emma Louise, Martha Roxanna and Sina Adeline.
Marriage and Family
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Alice Mathews (1855-) | |||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| William James Mathews (1859-1860) | |||
| Joseph Wilbur Brown Mathews (1863-) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Rosanna Mathews (1867-1876) | |||
| Grace Eloise Mathews (1872-1884) | |||
| Elleanor Ann Mathews (1874-1962) | |||
| Emanuel Mathews (1877-1878) | |||
| Isaac Smith Mathews (1879-1880) | |||
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