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Rebecca Winters

Mormon pioneer

Died when: 53 years 212 days (642 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Rebecca Winters

Rebecca Burdick Winters (January 16, 1799 – August 15, 1852) was a Mormon pioneer who with her family left the eastern United States to emigrate to the Salt Lake Valley with other Latter-day Saints.

In August 1852, en route to present-day Utah, she died of cholera near present-day Scottsbluff, Nebraska.Her grave, located in the Rebecca Winters Memorial Park, has become a popular landmark along the Mormon Trail and is a Nebraska State Landmark.

Although the grave remains a popular tourist attraction and is one of the few identified graves along the Westward Expansion Trails, some descendants—citing a lack of maintenance and safety at the current site—have requested her grave be removed from the trail side and relocated to a museum in a neighboring city.

The move is expected to occur in 2019, despite some opposition to the plan.


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