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Claudius V. Spencer Company (1853)

 

Departure:

3 June 1853

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

17-26 September 1853

Company Information:

About 250 individuals and 40 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Keokuk, Iowa or Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). They crossed the Missouri River on June 3.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Alder, Alfred (29)

Alder, Alfred W. (2)

Alder, Elijah (18)

Alder, Elizabeth Bevan (61)

Alder, John Field (1)

Alder, Susan Field (21)

Aldous, Angelina (9)

Aldous, Charles (13)

Aldous, Frederick (11)

Aldous, George (16)

Aldous, Georgiana (15)

Aldous, Mary Ann (40)

Aldous, Robert (42)

Anthony, Anthony L. (Unknown)

Arthur, Benjamin Abel (18)

Arthur, Christopher, Jr. (21)

Arthur, Christopher, Sr. (56)

Arthur, Mary Ann (16)

Baily ( or Bailey ), Hannah (50)

Baily ( or Bailey ), James (52)

Batys ( or Babys ), Elizabeth (Unknown)

Batys ( or Babys ), Esther (Unknown)

Betenson ( or Bettenson ), Elizabeth (26)

Betenson ( or Bettenson ), Joseph (28)

Borin, Sarah (Unknown)

Bourne, Charles (32)

Bourne, Jane (28)

Brown, Charles (8)

Brown, Edwin (12)

Brown, Elizabeth (10)

Brown, Henry William (13)

Brown, Jonathan (35)

Brown, Maria E. (3)

Brown, Sarah Ann (7)

Brown, Sarah Cousins (34)

Butcher, Harriet (22)

Campbell, Archibald W. (Unknown)

Carter, Thomas (45)

Chambers, George (14)

Chambers, Joseph (9)

Chambers, Joseph (53)

Chambers, Mary Ann (12)

Chambers, Mary Ann Watton (42)

Chity, Martha (43)

Clift ( or Clifft ), Daniel (19)

Cock ( or Cocks ), Timothy (18)

Dixon, Mary E. (34)

Dye, Harriet (23)

Dye, Julia (1)

Dye, William (33)

Dye, [Son] (infant)

Evans, Ada (Unknown)

Evans, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Evans, Evan (Unknown)

Evans, Henry (Unknown)

Evans, Rachel (Unknown)

Fisher, Emma (32)

Fisher, James (36)

Fisher, Jane (12)

Francis, Lucy (23)

Frankland, William (6)

Galley, Ann (49)

Galley, James (52)

Galley, James Henry (12)

Galley, Martha (20)

Galley, Mary (15)

Galley, Samuel (18)

Galley, Sarah Ann (9)

George, Henry Rod (32)

George, Mary Ann (7)

George, Mary Ann (31)

George, Robert A. (Unknown)

George, Sarah Ann (4)

Gough, Joseph H. (23)

Gough, Sarah Walker (21)

Harris, Elizabeth (7)

Harris, Hannah (17)

Harris, Jabez (10)

Harris, Joshua (4)

Harris, William (Unknown)

Hayes ( or Hais ), John (28)

Hayes ( or Hais ), Rachel Wagstaff (24)

House, Henry (66)

House, Maria (73)

Howse, Eliza Maria (4)

Howse, Maria House (40)

Jeffs, Emma (2)

Jeffs, Mary Ann (4)

Jeffs, Mary Ann Hatachard (29)

Jeffs, William (infant)

Jeffs, William (24)

Johnson, Eliza (Unknown)

Jones, Charlotte (Unknown)

Jones, Emma (Unknown)

Jones, Jane (Unknown)

Jones, Mary Ann (Unknown)

Jones, Mary Ann (Unknown)

Jones, Thomas Wilkins (19)

Jones, William (Unknown)

Jones, [Child] (infant)

King, Bertha Mary (18)

King, Hannah Tapfield (46)

King, Louisa (19)

King, Thomas Owen, Jr. (13)

King, Thomas Owen, Sr. (53)

Long, John (24)

Lord, Catherine (26)

Lord, Charles (30)

Lord, Sarah (43)

McTaggart, Phillis (Unknown)

McTaggart, Thomas (Unknown)

Metcalf, Anthony (10)

Metcalf, Eliza (2)

Metcalf, George T. (15)

Metcalf, James (6)

Metcalf, Jane A. (19)

Metcalf, John (14)

Metcalf, John Edward (41)

Metcalf, Mary (43)

Nelson, Eunice (14)

Neslen, Elizabeth Burgess (17)

Neslen, Esther (15)

Neslen, Eunice (44)

Neslen, Hannah (8)

Neslen, Phebe (15)

Neslen, Robert (20)

Neslen, Samuel (45)

Neslen, Samuel (21)

Neslen, Susannah (22)

Neslen, William (12)

Newling ( or Newlyn ), Ann (26)

Newman, Ann (13)

Newman, Betsy Ann (Unknown)

Newman, Elizabeth (42)

Newman, James (7)

Newman, James S. [or Stephen] (2)

Newman, John (15)

Newman, Joseph (44)

Newman, Joseph (22)

Newman, Mary Ann (43)

Newman, Sarah Ann (9)

Newman, Thomas (1)

Newman, William (6)

Newman, William J. (11)

Nutt, Thomas (23)

Palmer, Henry (40)

Palmer, Mary (37)

Parks, William (Unknown)

Partington ( or Parlington ), Richard (22)

Pill, George (Unknown)

Poll, Ann M. (6)

Poll, Charlotte (28)

Poll, Frederick F. (4)

Poll, William F. (28)

Poll, Willilam F. (8)

Preece, William (17)

Purnell, Elizabeth (28)

Purnell, Elizabeth (infant)

Purnell, Shem (31)

Pyatt ( or Piet ), Mary Ann (24)

Reed, Rachael (Unknown)

Reeder ( or Reider ), George (25)

Rickets, Christiana (54)

Rickets, John (51)

Rickets, Julia (19)

Ringwood, Charles (22)

Smart, Samuel (infant)

Smart, Sarah Ann Morgan (27)

Smart, Thomas Henry (23)

Smith, Eleanor (34)

Smith, Emma (39)

Smith, George (37)

Smith, Simon (39)

Smith, Sophia (23)

Spencer, Claudius Victor (29)

Spencer, Georgiana (22)

Spillet, James (17)

Stayner ( or Stayna ), Elizabeth (21)

Sutton, Emma (18)

Sutton, Isaac (30)

Tanner, Alma (6)

Tanner, Ann (32)

Tanner, Ebenezer (11)

Tanner, George (14)

Tanner, James (20)

Tanner, Joseph (9)

Tanner, Thomas (46)

Tanner, Thomas (22)

Teasdell, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Teasdell, Frances (56)

Teasdell, Samuel (20)

Thackery, George (17)

Thawley, Thomas (24)

Thomas, Hannah (Unknown)

Wagstaff, Mary Gilby (34)

Wagstaff, William (41)

Walker, Ann Preece (54)

Walker, Eliza (23)

Walker, Henry (46)

Walker, John Henry (10)

Walker, Maria (15)

Walker, Selina (12)

Walker, Thomas (42)

Webb, Charles (Unknown)

Webb, Edmond (31)

Webb, Ellen [or Rosa] (2)

Webb, Sarah (30)

Weeks, Ann Mary (53)

Weeks, David (16)

Weeks, Edith (14)

Weeks, Emma (6)

Weeks, Robert (61)

Weeks, Sidney (9)

Wheeler, Ann Walker (26)

Wheeler, Thomas (23)

White, John (19)

Wiggins, John (Unknown)

Williams, Ebenezar (23)

Williams, Esther (23)

Woodhead, Sarah Ann (17)

Wright, Anne (Unknown)

Wright, Emma (Unknown)

Wright, Mary (Unknown)

Sources

Arthur, Christopher Jones, Autobiography, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon Diaries [1935-1938], reel 1, item 4, vol. 1, 5-6; ibid., vol. 2, 6-7; ibid., vol. 4, 13-15; and ibid., reel 1, item 54.

FIXBelliston, Thomas, [Autobiography], in Lester H. Belliston, comp., Belliston: James Thomas Belliston and Louisa Miller, Their Forebears and Descendants [1976], 8-9.

Hammond, Selina Walker, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1913-1915], 1-3.

King, Hannah Tapfield, "My Journal," in Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, ed. and comp. Kenneth L. Holmes, vol. 6, 1853-1854 [1986], 190-222.

King, Hannah Tapfield, Autobiography [ca. 1864-1872], fd. 6.

King, Thomas O., Autobiographical sketch, in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Collection, 1828-1963, reel 13, item 6, [1,3]

Tanner, Thomas, Autobiographical sketches, 1-2.

Wheeler, Maria Walker, My history [ca. 1899], 11-19.

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