Aurelia Hawkins - Young Pioneer

Aurelia Hawkins is my Great, Great Grandmother. She traveled to Utah in the Benjamin Gardner Pioneer Company at the age of fifteen. Traveling in the same pioneer group was Jonathan Ellis Layne, a seventeen year old contemporary of Aurelia. Many years later he wrote down his memories of the trek. As these two youth experienced this excursion at a similar age, I have paired excerpts from Brother Layne's words with an image of Aurelia in the following video: