| 词条 | Rebecca Winters (pioneer) |
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|name = Rebecca Winters |image = rebecca_winters_grave.gif |image_size = 200px |caption = Grave of Rebecca Winters |birth_name = Rebecca Burdick |birth_date = {{birth date|1799|01|16|mf=y}} |birth_place = Canajoharie, New York, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1852|08|15|1799|01|16|mf=y}} |death_place = near Scottsbluff, Nebraska, U.S. |spouse = Hiram Winters |children = Oscar Winters Alonzo Winters Hiram Adelbert Winters Rebecca Winters Helen Melissa Winters |parents = Gideon Burdick Catharina Schmidt |occupation = |alma_mater = |party = |residence = |signature = |salary = |networth = |website = }}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.[1] BiographyOriginsRebecca Burdick was born to Gideon Burdick and Catharina Schmidt in Canajoharie, New York. In 1806, Catharina died; Rebecca was only seven years old at this time. Rebecca's father, Gideon, then married Jane Ripley Brown, and when Rebecca was 18 the family relocated to Athens County, Ohio. Here she met Hiram Winters and they were married in 1824. Eventually the two were introduced to Mormonism and joined the Latter Day Saint church. They moved their family to Kirtland, Ohio, to gather with other church members.[2] Burdick's brother, Thomas Burdick, was also converted to the church. When living in Kirtland, Rebecca and Hiram were caretakers of the Kirtland Temple.[3] The Trek WestAfter leaving Kirtland, the Winters family briefly stayed in Nauvoo, Illinois, before leaving on the Mormon Trail with the James C. Snow Wagon Company in June 1852.[4] On August 13 of that year, while near Chimney Rock, Rebecca became sick with cholera, and the illness continued to get worse until she died on August 15. Following her death, William Fletcher Reynolds (1826 – 1904), a family friend, carved her name and age into an iron wagon tire and buried it to mark the grave's location.[5] Grave site and relocationAfter the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad, Mormon pioneers stopped traveling by foot and Winters's grave was all but forgotten. Farmers in the Scottsbluff area knew about the grave, but it was not until the end of the 19th century that the grave became a tourist attraction. It was during this time that the Burlington & Missouri Railroad was running a railroad line through the Platte Valley, and after discovering the marked grave, they rerouted the tracks from their original plan to avoid disturbing it. For almost 100 years, thousands visited the grave site, so in 1995 the Burlington Northern Railroad decided to relocate the grave for the safety of visitors (due to its proximity to the railroad tracks). In September 1995, her body was exhumed and relocated a little further east and north of the original location. In June 1996, hundreds of Winters's descendants gathered for the dedication of the Rebecca Winters Memorial Park. The grave remains one of the few marked graves among the approximately 6,000 Mormons who perished crossing the plains.[6] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://visitscottsbluff.com/attractions/rebecca-winters-grave |title=Rebecca Winters Grave |author=Scotts Bluff County Tourism |date= |work=Nebraska's Landmark Country |accessdate=18 October 2010}} 2. ^Olsen, Beth R. Among the Remnant who Lingered Micro Dynamics Electronic Publishing, Inc., Orem, Utah, 1997. 3. ^Olsen, Beth R. Among the Remnant who Lingered Pg. 33, Micro Dynamics Electronic Publishing, Inc., Orem, Utah, 1997. 4. ^{{citation |url= http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/pioneerDetail?lang=eng&pioneerId=9735 |contribution= Rebecca Burdick Winters |title= Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 |publisher= Church History Library, LDS Church |accessdate= 2013-08-19 }} 5. ^Olsen, Beth R. Among the Remnant who Lingered Pg. 77 – 78, Micro Dynamics Electronic Publishing, Inc., Orem, Utah, 1997. 6. ^{{cite book|title=Historic Sites and Markers Along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails|publisher=University of Illinois Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMwIdQeORxcC&pg=PR3 |date=1988}} External links
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