Hilda A. Erickson Utah Pioneer: A history of a very young girl who crossed the plains with here mother in 1866. grew up and married John Erickson in the small town of Grantsville, Utah Spent most of her adult life in the western desert of Tooele County. She loved riding side saddle as she went about her many activities of; missionary to the Indians in Ibapah, Utah, church worker, doctor, seamstress, store keeper, cooking for miners and railroad workmen and mother. Hilda passed away January 1, 1968 at the age of 108, the last surviving Utah Pioneer.