Notes on Betsy Cranson

• History of Tooele County (Tooele DUP, 1961) says: "Betsy Cranson Howe McCustion came to Tooele about 1852 in the Captain Perriegren Sessions Company. She came with her one-year-old daughter Gertrude Isabelle and Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Hawley. They arrived in Utah just as winter was setting in and camped at the present site of Garfield. After about a year in Tooele they went to Placerville, California until her marriage to Oliver Porter McCustion. By this marriage she had two boys, Franklin, who died at age two years, and Alvin. They returned to Utah in December 1856 and stayed at the home of Francis Marion Lee until they could get a home started. She kept a boarding house and cared for the sick to support her children.—Marabell McCustion Robinson" (p. 537).
• Additional information from the McCuistion Website (note their spelling of the surname):
  • Autobiography of Alvin James McCuistion, with information on Betsy and the Gollahers (cross-posted)
  • Oliver Porter McCuistion, on Betsy's second husband (cross-posted)