Eliza Foreman and John Smith (1860)

Coming across the plains, Eliza Foreman's mother, Mary Ann Campbell had been sick with dysentery.  She fell from the wagon and was run over and killed by an ox team. Because of no lumber for a coffin she was sewn up in a blanket and buried where the company camped, which is now Florence, Nebraska.  Her father, James Foreman had died in England. In the year of 1860, John Smith was called by the church to go back East and help a company of English immigrants to get to Utah. They met on the plains of Wyoming. The company was camped for the night when he met them. John noticed a young lady sitting on the tongue of a wagon, crying. He went over to her and asked her why she was crying. She told him that her mother had fell from the wagon and was run over and killed. They had no lumber for a coffin and so she was sewn up in a blanket and buried. She looked up through her tears and smiled bravely and asked "How many wives have you?"  The answer was, "I am not married" The courtship then began between John Smith and Eliza Foreman. It was love at first sight! The young couple moved to Logan to make their home. 

("A short biography of my Great Grandfather, John Smith, told by his youngest son James Andrew Smith, my Grandfather's brother" available on FamilySearch.org > Eliza Rebecca Foreman [KWJ4-V99]> Memories).