The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Esther
Surname: Caulfield

Gender: Female

Birth date: Abt. 1824

Birth place: Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Death date: 7 October 1856

Death place: Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming Territory, United States

Burial date: 7 October 1856

Burial place: Fort Laramie, Goshen, Wyoming Territory, United States

Father: James Caulfield (sawyer)
Mother:

Siblings

Walters, John (1808-)

Married 1849 in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales * Abertawe, Glamorganshire, Wales

Children

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 April 1856 aboard the ship Samuel Curling.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 23 May 1856.

Walters, John and Esther - Biography
Walters, Mary Adelaide - Biography

From the Pioneer Overland Travel website:
Saturday 6th Septr. Ester [Hester] Walters wife of John Walters from Cardiffe Wales was del[ivere]d of a daughter at 5 Am and is doing well.

Tuesday 7th Octr[.] Started at 7 a.m. Bro Richard Griffiths had an ox giving out. unhitched the pair from the waggon and drove on with the one yoke of oxen, leaving the loose pair for Bro Saml Evans to drive on[.] while driving them one of the bow Keys broke, by which means the oxen became separated, and the one that had the yoke hanging to the neck ran off and so frightened some of the oxen, causing them to leave the trail and go at high speed[.] waggon after waggon was now seen going in different directions at a terrible rate and general consternation prevailed at the last half of the train[.] so many were in danger of being knocked down or crushed between the waggons: in a few minutes they were brought to a state of rest some ten or twelve waggons having left the track. we have to lament that a Sister Esther Walters from Swansea Wales was knocked down and so injured that she expired in a few minutes afterwards, leaving a babe of four weeks old, which at the time was in the waggon. She was interred this evening at 5 pm[.] aged 39 years. the accident occurred about 12.30 pm.

Wednesday 5th[.] Jane Walters daughter of John Walters died at 9.30 am aged 8 weeks[.]

Esther Caulfield

Siblings