Rebecca Winters Memorial - Scotts Bluff National Monument - Gering, NE
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N 41° 50.394 W 103° 41.946
13T E 608008 N 4632818
A dedicated bench at the north overlook atop Scotts Bluff
Waymark Code: WMRWDC
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2016
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Rebecca Winters was a Mormon pioneer who died of cholera near Scotts Bluff on her way to Utah along the Mormon trail in 1852. The bench gives her dates as 1802 - 1852, but other sources give her birth year as 1799 or 1801. When she died, a family friend inscribed her name and age (given as 50) on a discarded wagon wheel and placed it over her grave. The wheel and her grave were discovered during railway surveying in 1900. This bench was placed in 1997 on the 150th anniversary of the Mormon trail.
The inscription reads:
REBECCA WINTERS
MEMORIAL
1802 - 1852
IN COMMEMORATION
OF THE 150 YEAR
MORMON TRAIL
CELEBRATION
1847 - 1997
Where is this bench located?: Scotts Bluff National Monument north overlook
Who is this bench honoring?: Rebecca Burdick Winters
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