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Daniel A. Miller / John W. Cooley Company (1853)

 

Departure:

8 June 1853

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

9-17 September 1853

Company Information:

282 individuals and 70 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Six-Mile Grove, Iowa or Nebraska.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Allen, Araminta (12)

Allen, Daniel R. (37)

Allen, Eliza (30)

Allen, Janett (infant)

Allen, Marinda (15)

Allen, Mary E. (7)

Allen, Sarah Ann (3)

Avery, Talitha (29)

Avery, William (7)

Ayers, Joseph (Unknown)

Bagley, Daniel (24)

Bagley, Margaret Melissa (1)

Bagley, Mary (20)

Ballard, Mary Adeline Pierce (21)

Ballard, William Batson (19)

Batson, Owen (39)

Bigler, Adam C. (25)

Bigler, Andrew (17)

Bigler, Jacob (36)

Bigler, Mark (21)

Bigler, Sarah (38)

Bingham, Abigail Aurora (4)

Bingham, Alonzo (21)

Bingham, Calvin (26)

Bingham, Calvin Perry (1)

Bingham, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Bingham, Elizabeth Lucretia Thorn (21)

Bingham, Jeremiah (47)

Bingham, Jeremiah Myron (5)

Bingham, Levi Perry (20)

Bingham, Louisa Elizabeth (infant)

Bingham, Lucinda Abigail (15)

Bingham, Margaret Melvina (12)

Bingham, Sarah Anne Elizabeth Lusk (19)

Bingham, Sarah Clarinda (3)

Bingham, Sarah Ellenor (3)

Bingham, Susan Keele (21)

Binnall ( or Binnel ), Charles (43)

Blood, Moroni (13)

Blood, Roswell (50)

Booth, Harrison Lorenzo (5)

Booth, Jane (31)

Booth, Mosiah (15)

Boren, Mary (72)

Boren, Willis (57)

Bradshaw, Ann (Unknown)

Bradshaw, John (Unknown)

Brim, Andrew (Unknown)

Brim, Emily (3)

Brim, Frederick (1)

Brim, Margaret (32)

Brim, Sarah (7)

Brim, Ursula [or Arsula] (9)

Brim, Vaness (42)

Broadhead, Jabez (12)

Broadhead, Robert (17)

Broadhead, Sarah (53)

Broadhead, William (47)

Brown, Alvira D. (infant)

Brown, Amelia (16)

Brown, Edward (Unknown)

Brown, Laura (Unknown)

Brown, Rebecca (Unknown)

Brown, William (Unknown)

Brown, [Mrs.] Lydia (35)

Brown, [Mrs.] Sarah (37)

Cast, Erick (27)

Chase, Amy (1)

Chase, Charles (19)

Chase, Hannah Gove (18)

Chase, Harriet (12)

Chase, Jane (13)

Chase, John Edwin (infant)

Chase, Larancy [or Miranda] (11)

Chase, Lydia Ann (29)

Chase, Miriam Gove (40)

Chase, Mirian [or Miriam] (4)

Chase, Nancy (7)

Chase, Sisson A. (45)

Chase, Sisson A., Jr. (6)

Chase, Solomon Drake (35)

Chase, Solomon Drake, Jr. (2)

Clinger, William (37)

Cooley, Janette [or Gennette] (16)

Cooley, John William (41)

Cooley, Marett (Unknown)

Cooley, Mary (Unknown)

Cooley, S. W. (infant)

Cooley, Susan J. (25)

Core, Esther (69)

Cort, Ann (Unknown)

Cort, William (Unknown)

Cox, Gilbert (Unknown)

Crapo, Ezra (3)

Crapo, Jonathan (23)

Crapo, Joseph G. (46)

Crapo, Leonidus (15)

Crapo, Lorenzo Snow (infant)

Crapo, Marcus (10)

Crapo, Mary H. (44)

Crapo, Prince (12)

Davis, Thomas (Unknown)

Drollinger, Simeon (20)

Farnsworth, Moses Franklin (19)

 

Farr, Franklin (16)

Farr, Martin (7)

Farr, Ruth (18)

Farr, Sarah (48)

Ford, Jane (32)

Freeman, Hannah (Unknown)

Freeman, Solomon (Unknown)

Freestone, Ann (41)

Freestone, Elizabeth Ann (11)

Freestone, Emma S. [or Amy S.] (1)

Freestone, George (15)

Freestone, James F. (13)

Freestone, Joanna (4)

Freestone, Rhoda (8)

Freestone, Thomas (58)

Gibson, Amy (15)

Hatton, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Hatton, Richard (Unknown)

Holmes, Henry (16)

Holmes, John (51)

Holmes, Mary Ann (42)

Hunt, Isaac (24)

Jameson, Charles (infant)

Jameson, Charles (50)

Jameson, Nancy (35)

Jameson, Sylvester (1)

Johnson, America (29)

Johnson, Charlotte (infant)

Johnson, Eliza (14)

Johnson, Fanny [or Fanny Catherine] (12)

Johnson, James (15)

Johnson, Luke S. (45)

Johnson, Mark (1)

Johnson, Orson (3)

Johnson, Solomon (9)

Johnson, Susan (4)

Johnson, Vashti (11)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), Andrew (21)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), Caroline (14)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), James (48)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), James, Jr. (9)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), Martha (12)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), Rachel J. (10)

Kilfoyle ( or Kilfoil ), William (16)

Leish, Everett (Unknown)

Leish, Harriet (Unknown)

Lusk, John Winters (24)

Lusk, Mary Elizabeth (20)

Mayhew, Austin S. (15)

Mayhew, Caroline A. (10)

Mayhew, Elijah (46)

Mayhew, Lydia Farnsworth (45)

Mayhew, Otto L. (17)

Mayhew, Walter (5)

McIntosh, Elizabeth Jane (Unknown)

McIntosh, Malinda J. (9)

McIntosh, Margaret A. (Unknown)

McIntosh, Sarah Ann (15)

McIntosh, Solomon P. (40)

McKee, David (6)

McKee, Harriet (1)

McKee, James (33)

McKee, Louisa (9)

McKee, Matilda (19)

McKee, Percess [or Persis] (33)

McKee, Polly (4)

McKee, Thomas (36)

Mikesell, Louisa (9)

Millard, Lucy Ann (Unknown)

Miller, Daniel A. (Unknown)

Mills, Alice (Unknown)

Mills, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Mills, Martha (Unknown)

Mills, [Mrs.] Elizabeth (Unknown)

Montierth (or Montieth), Alvin M. (28)

Montierth (or Montieth), Harriet Crapo (28)

Obanion (or O'Banion), Margaret Jane (3)

Ordway, Amos (Unknown)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce ), James Madison (39)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), Emily (infant)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), James Madison (2)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), Joseph Smith (8)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), Mary Ann Bowman (29)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), Parley Pratt (5)

Peirce (Pierce, Perce), William Andrew (6)

Perce, Polly P. (Unknown)

Pierce, Adelia Delilah (7)

Pierce, Amanda (42)

Pierce, Isaac Riley (9)

Pierce, Joseph White (48)

Pierce, Julia Ann Menetta (2)

Pierce, Roxey Abigail (13)

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins (24)

Pulsifer, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Radmall, Caroline (28)

Radmall, Elizabeth Ann (7)

Radmall, Henry Bullifent (39)

Radmall, Samuel Daniel (2)

Rees ( or Reece ), Elizabeth (3)

Rees ( or Reece ), John (31)

Rees ( or Reece ), Mary (32)

Rees ( or Reece ), Mary Ann (infant)

Rodeback, Charles (42)

Rodeback, Charles L. (1)

Rodeback, Frances Isabella (5)

Rodeback, Jane (42)

Rodeback, Mary Ann (14)

Rodeback, Sarah J. (11)

Root, Augustus (55)

Rose, Abraham (50)

Rose, Ally Stephen (12)

Rose, Ann V. (14)

Rose, Catherine (46)

Rose, Erastus (6)

Rose, Martha (10)

Rose, Orson H. (16)

Savage, Henry (Unknown)

Sharkey, William A. (Unknown)

Shearer ( or Sherer ), Mary L. (Unknown)

Smith, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Smith, John (Unknown)

Smith, Mary A. (Unknown)

Stageman, John (23)

Stone, Arthur (12)

Stone, Edward (14)

Stone, James H. (infant)

Stone, Mary (42)

Stone, Moroni (3)

Stone, Rhoda (10)

Stone, Sarah (7)

Stone, William (55)

Taylor, Asenath E. (26)

Taylor, Hillard B. (30)

Thayer, Ruth (Unknown)

Thorn, Abigail (8)

Thorn, Abner (3)

Thorn, Asahel [or Ashael] (45)

Thorn, Barbara Ann (4)

Thorn, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Thorn, Harriet A. (27)

Thorn, Helen Lorana (6)

Thorn, Hyrum (3)

Thorn, Isaac (13)

Thorn, Joseph (31)

Thorn, Joseph (14)

Thorn, Lorana [or Laurana] (29)

Thorn, Lydia Sophronia (9)

Thorn, Mary Ann (19)

Thorn, Nancy (12)

Thorn, Orson A. (infant)

Thorn, Richard (15)

Thorn, Richard (28)

Thorn, Richard Henry (1)

Thorn, Sarah (17)

Thorn, Sarah (44)

Thorn, William (23)

Weatherby ( or Wetherby ), Mary Ann (13)

Weatherby ( or Wetherby ), Sabra C. [or Caroline] (10)

Webb, Charles (3)

Webb, Deloss (11)

Webb, Edwin D. (40)

Webb, Eliza Ann (40)

Webb, Maitland (12)

Webb, Maxwell (14)

Wheaton, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Wheaton, Lucien (Unknown)

Wheaton, Mariah (Unknown)

Wheaton, Werham (28)

Whitbeck, John (Unknown)

Williams, Laura A. (Unknown)

Williams, Maria (Unknown)

Williams, Mary (31)

Williams, Nephi (Unknown)

Williams, Sophia Jane (7)

Willis, Benjamin (61)

Willis, Hannah (51)

Willis, Hyrum (15)

Willis, Martha (8)

Wilson, Agnes (41)

Wilson, Alvira [or Alvina] (19)

Wilson, Annie (2)

Wilson, Atlas (19)

Wilson, Bradley Barlow (47)

Wilson, Bushrod (4)

Wilson, Clarissa (17)

Wilson, David Wagner (11)

Wilson, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Wilson, Emily (7)

Wilson, George (53)

Wilson, George C. (15)

Wilson, George Miles (4)

Wilson, Henry Hardy (21)

Wilson, James (13)

Wilson, Lavina (22)

Wilson, Lemuel Green (21)

Wilson, Lewis Dunbar (48)

Wilson, Lewis Dunbar, Jr. (13)

Wilson, Louisa Ann (22)

Wilson, Mahala Jane (9)

Wilson, Mary Malinda (11)

Wilson, Nancy Melissa (7)

Wilson, Samuel (2)

Worsley, Elizabeth (9)

Worsley, Francis A. (11)

Worsley, John H. (7)

Worsley, Mary E. (6)

Worsley, Sarah Jane (14)

Worsley, Sidney (16)

Young, John (Unknown

Sources

Cheney, Talitha Cumi Garlick Avery, [Autobiography], in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. [1958-77], 15:120.

Daniel A. Miller/John W. Cooley Emigrating Company, Journal, in Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, General files 1849-1898, reel 1, box 1, fd. 5.

Farnsworth, Moses Franklin, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 43:44. Full Text

Hunt, Isaac, [Interview], "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 13:187. Full Text

Mayhew, Elijah, Camp journal, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 Sept. 1853, 2-24. Full Text

Mayhew, Elijah, Diary, 1853 June-Sept.

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley [1957], 85-108.

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley, ed. Fawn M. Brodie [1962], 100-26.

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, Journal, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 Aug. 1853, 2-20. Full Text

Rose, Alley Stephen, Journal 1896 Jan.-1910 Oct., 148-49.

Wilson, Lewis Dunbar, Sr., Record of Lewis Dunbar, Sr. and Nancy Ann Wilson, in Mormon biographical sketches collection [ca. 1900-1975], reel 1, box 2, fd. 3, 4-5.

Wilson, Lewis Dunbar, Sr., Reminiscence and diary, 1846-1854, 9-10.

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