From an autobiographical sketch for Maryett Colvin Walker, digitized on FamilySearch.org.
My parents were Orlin Philander Colvin, born August 7, 1813 at Boylston, New York and Jane Dutcher born November 12, 1817, who were of Dutch descent. They embraced Mormonism and were both personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. My mother was in Carthage when the Prophet was killed and heard the shots that caused his death. They came across the plains with a yoke of oxen and a yoke of cows in 1852. They lost a baby while crossing the Plains and she was buried at Willow Springs. They arrived in Utah in the fall of 1852 and settled at Ogden City, Utah. I was born October 31, 1853, in a one roomed log house with a dirt roof. It was located where Mound Fort School House now stands on the corner of 12th Street and Washington Avenue. I moved with my parents to North Ogden in 1854.
When I was 2 years old, I followed my father to work and wandered away from him and got lost. An old Indian squaw found me and carried me home on her back. Father got alarmed when he missed me and searched and couldn’t find me so started for home and when he arrived there I was home just a little while before he got there. The squaw knew mother because she had helped her when her papoose was ill.