Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-07-27 | Page 2 | Pioneer Woman of Dixie Land Dies

Pioneer Woman of Dixie DixieLand Land Dies One of the pioneer women of the Dixie land of Utah Mrs Harriet Utley Carter died at her home in St. St George Thursday according to tc information received at the capitol capita Monday She was the widow of William Villiam Carter who was one of the trail blazes blazers into the Salt Lake valley valley val val- ley Icy in 1847 1841 and who was it Is raid caid the first man to plow in the val val- ley by He lIe is also said to have turned the fir firs sod Eod for the Salt Lake temple temple tem teni- pie and turned the first furrow with a plow in what Is now Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington county Mrs Irs Carter was 90 90 years of age o She was born in Mobile Ala on July 11 1835 The f family embraced embraced embraced em em- I braced the Mormon faith in 1847 and started for tor Nauvoo but Instead in instead instead In- In stead went to Winter Quarters anc and while there her mother three brothers and a sister died from i measles With her father grandmother grand graid- mother and aad a brother Gabriel I now lives in St. St Joseph Utah In 1852 they started across across the plains i and on the way the father died dice died of from cholera The belonging the family were thrown Into Into the i Platte river The other members of of the family continued the journey I arriving in Salt Lake in November 1852 She is survived by her hei brother six chil children ren thirty-six thirty grandchildren dren and seven fifty-seven great grand children