In 1856, John Griffiths set out from Liverpool, England, with his family and headed to Salt Lake City in the Martin Handcart Company with the help of the Perpetual Emigration Fund. By the end of the journey, however, all but two of his children, Margaret Ann and Jane Ellenor, had died, and he died upon arriving in Salt Lake City. Now, 150 years later, descendants of these two pioneers gathered July 8 in Provo, Utah, to pay a unique tribute to their Martin Handcart Company ancestors—a settlement of a 150-year-old debt.
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