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Le Sueur was born Caroline Le Gresley on June 11, 1814, in Velle Babet, Jersey, Channel Islands.
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Within two years they had two children, a boy and a girl, the first of whom died in infancy. They moved to Saint Helier, the seaport capital of Jersey, where John worked first as a teamster, and then in a candle factory. Caroline operated a small grocery store in her front room where she sold vegetables grown in her garden.
In Saint Helier they had four more children, three of whom survived to adulthood.
The couple wanted to emigrate to Utah Territory, but it took six years to save for the journey. Finally, in 1855 they crossed the Atlantic aboard the Chimborazo.
In America, the family name Le Sueur became Le Sueur . Upon arrival in Utah the family settled in Bountiful, where they remained for ten years except for a short stint in American Fork during the Utah War.
The family began to be prosperous and by 1862 had no debt, a home on 30 acres (120,000 m2), and a herd of livestock.
Caroline took over management of the farm, leased it out, and three years later moved her family to Montpelier, Idaho. That town was just being settled and they moved into a two-room log cabin. By the time they left Montpelier 13 years later, they lived in one of the best homes in downtown Montpelier.
Le Sueur became one of the first settlers of Mesa, Arizona Territory, when she moved her family there in 1879.
They later moved on to a small Mexican village in northeastern Arizona named Saint Johns. Le Sueur worked for the remainder of her life building of the town.
She died there on October 1, 1898.
