Rebecca Winters (pioneer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Mormon pioneer
Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1799
Place of Birth: Canajoharie, New York, United States
Date of Death: 15-Aug-1852
Profession: pioneer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Rebecca Winters (pioneer)
- 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.Although the grave remains a popular tourist attraction and is one of the few identified graves along the Westward Expansion Trails, some descendants—citing a lack of maintenance and safety at the current site—have requested her grave be removed from the trail side and relocated to a museum in a neighboring city.
- The move is expected to occur in 2019, despite some opposition to the plan.
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