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Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company (1847)

 

Departure:

17 June 1847

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

19-22 September 1847

Company Information:

174 or 177 individuals and 76 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Abbott, Anna (60)

Abbott, Rufus (63)

Baxter, Joseph G. (37)

Bingham, Brigham Heber (5)

Bingham, Edwin (15)

Bingham, Erastus Perry (1)

Bingham, Erastus Willard (49)

Bingham, Lucinda Gates (49)

Bingham, Maria Louisa (19)

Bingham, Olive Hovey (27)

Bingham, Olive Louisa (2)

Bingham, Sanford (26)

Bingham, Willard (17)

Boggs, Evelina Martin (31)

Boggs, Mary (4)

Bond, Polly (58)

Boss, Alexander (24)

Boss, Alfred (20)

Boss, Calvin (20)

Boss, David (20)

Boss, David (46)

Boss, Martha Brown (53)

Boyce [or Boyes], Elizabeth Taylor (27)

Boyce [or Boyes], George (51)

Boyce [or Boyes], Henry (9)

Boyce [or Boyes ], Elizabeth (16)

Boyce [or Boyes ], William (22)

Boyce [or Boyes], Margaret Ann (7)

Boyce [or Boyes], Thomas (20)

Brimhall, Ann (56)

Brown, Adelia Ann (7)

Brown, Esther Jones Roper (33)

Brown, Mary Jane (8)

Brown, Naamah (1)

Brown, Phebe Narcissia (25)

Brown, William (31)

Bryant, William (Unknown)

Clements, Eliza (13)

Crandall, Albert (48)

Crandall, Mary (Unknown)

Crandall, Melissa (11)

Cummings, Alva (15)

Cummings, Benjamin Frankland (26)

Curtis, Catherine Adelia (26)

Davis, Hyrum (Unknown)

Davison, Mariah Jane [or Maria] (15)

Deming, Henrietta (6)

Deming, Mariah (28)

Deming, Moses (43)

Deming, Wayne (8)

Drake, Daniel Hewell (58)

Drake, Horace (21)

Drake, Orson Perkins (22)

Drake, Patience Perkins (63)

Eldredge, Alanson (65)

Eldredge, Alanson (infant)

Eldredge, Alma (5)

Eldredge, Diana (10)

Eldredge, Edmund (12)

Eldredge, Esther Ann (8)

Eldredge, Hyrum (3)

Eldredge, Ira (37)

Eldredge, Nancy Black (34)

Ensign, John Calvin (17)

Ensign, Julia Sirls (13)

Ensign, Luman Ashley (19)

Ensign, Lydia Esther (6)

Ensign, Martin Luther (16)

Ensign, Mary Bronson (41)

Ensign, Mary Everett Gordon (36)

Ensign, Rufus Bronson (12)

Ensign, Samuel (42)

Ensign, Samuel Lozene (11)

Farr, Celestia Ann (2)

Farr, Enoch (1)

Farr, Lorin (26)

Farr, Nancy Bailey Chase (24)

Farr, Persis (27)

Freeman, Elijah Norman (2)

Freeman, Mary Bingham (27)

Frost, Catherine (infant)

Frost, Edwin (6)

Frost, Emeline Minerva (9)

Frost, Mary Elizabeth Potter (31)

Gates, Thomas (71)

Goodale, Isaac Newton (32)

Green, Alphonzo (36)

Green, Alva Alphonzo (7)

Green, Alvin Greeley (18)

Green, Austin Greeley (13)

Green, Elizabeth or Betsey Bonny Murdock (37)

Green, Fanny Greeley (40)

Green, Harriet Ann (9)

Green, Robert Kenyon (40)

Green, Sarah Annadellah (3)

Haight, Caleb (68)

Haight, Caroline Eliza (9)

Haight, Eliza Ann Snyder (31)

Haight, Hector Caleb (37)

Haight, Horton David (14)

Haight, Isaac Chauncey (34)

Haight, Julia Ann Van Orden (36)

Haight, Mary Adelia (17)

Haight, Sarah Aldridge (58)

Haight, Temperance Keturah (2)

Haight, William Van Orden (5)

Hambleton, Chelnecha Smith (29)

Hambleton, Gerusha Lecretia (11)

Hambleton, Lucy Ann (7)

Hambleton, Madison Daniel (35)

Hickenlooper, Belinda (15)

Hickenlooper, John Thomas (10)

Hickenlooper, Sarah Hawkins (44)

Hickenlooper, William Haney (42)

Holmes, Eliza Wilder (Unknown)

Holmes, Ellen (2)

Holmes, George (9)

Holmes, Hyrum (15)

Holmes, Oliver (12)

Holmes, Samuel Oliver (43)

Houtz, Jacob (32)

Houtz, Lydia Mease (30)

Houtz, Mary Elizabeth (7)

Houtz, Mary Lucinda (4)

James, Isaac (27)

James, Jane Elizabeth Manning (28)

James, Silas (infant)

James, Sylvester (9)

King, Rosetta (27)

Lewis, Beason (17)

Lewis, Elizabeth Ryon (37)

Lewis, John Moss (18)

Lewis, Martha Ann (14)

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth (12)

Lewis, William Crawford (16)

Martin, Ruth (19)

McIntyre, James N. (12)

McIntyre, Rosannah B. (37)

McIntyre, William F. (6)

McIntyre, [Brother] (Unknown)

Murdock, Eunice Sweet (28)

Murdock, Joseph Stacy (25)

Murdock, Mary (9)

Murdock, Nymphas Coridon (14)

Murdock, Sally Stacy (59)

Nowlin, Amanda Thomas (19)

Nowlin, Bryan Ward (31)

Nowlin, Mary Susannah Cummings (17)

Ostrander, Caroline Josephine (4)

Ostrander, Eliza Esther Morrison (27)

Ostrander, Elizabeth Elvera (5)

Potter, Anna (16)

Potter, John H. (14)

Potter, William (23)

Ralston, Hannah (25)

Ralston, John (32)

Ralston, Josephine P. (4)

Randolf, Edwin (10)

Rice, Asaph (30)

Rigby, James (26)

Roper, Ann Elizabeth (10)

Rust, George Smith (13)

Shaw, Ambrose A. (22)

Shaw, Permelia Dunn [or Pamelia] (16)

Shippen, Charles Wesley (9)

Snedaker, Ann (28)

Snedaker, Morris J. (28)

Spencer, Amanda (7)

Spencer, Anna (16)

Spencer, Charles Henry (19)

Spencer, Claudius Victor (23)

Spencer, Daniel (52)

Spencer, Edwin Eugene (3)

Spencer, Emily Shafer Thompson (27)

Spencer, Francis E. (1)

Spencer, Gilbert H. (19)

Spencer, Hyrum Theron (11)

Spencer, Maria Antoinette Spencer (21)

Spencer, Mary Leone (4)

Spiers, Phoebe (21)

Staines, William Carter (28)

Standage, Elizabeth E. (55)

Taft, Almira Sophia (15)

Taft, Harriet Ogden (38)

Walker, Olive Hovey Farr (22)

Whitney, Ephraim (30)

Whitney, Harriet (22)

Sources

Cummings, Benjamin Franklin, Biography and Journals of Benjamin Franklin Cummings [1933], 24-25.

Cummings, Benjamin Franklin, Journal, 16.

Cummings, Benjamin Franklin, Reminiscences and diaries, 1842-1879, fd. 1, 8p.

Eldredge, Alma, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1911], 4-8.

Eldredge, Alma. Reminiscences and diary, 1857-1898, 18-21.

Ensign, Martin Luther, Autobiography, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter, Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, reel 1, item 9, 1-2.

Goodale, Isaac Newton, Journals, 1839-1863, vol. 1.

Haight, Isaac Chauncey, Journal 1842 June-1850 Apr.

Haight, Isaac Chauncey, Journal, 40-47.

Haight, Isaac Chauncey. Diary, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 3, item 5, vol. 1, 46-54.

Haight, Isaac Chauncey. Journal and autobiography, in Joel Edward Ricks, Cache Valley historical material [ca. 1955], reel 4, item 48, 39-50.

Hambleton, Madison D., [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book."

Pratt, Parley P., Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, ed. Parley P. Pratt, Jr., 6th ed., [1964], 358-60.

Smoot, Diana Eldredge, Autobiography, [2-5].

Spencer, Daniel, "On the Plains," in Heart Throbs of the West, 12 vols. [1939-51], 4:347-48.

Spencer, Daniel, Diaries 1845-1857, vol. 2.

Spencer, Daniel, Letter, Salt Lake City [Utah] to Brother Grove, 1848 Oct. 5.

Spencer, Hiram Theron, "Sketch of Life and Experiences of Patriarch and Mrs. H. T. Spencer, Who Pioneered Magna and Vicinity," [1925?], 3.

Spencer, Hiram Theron, [Autobiography], in An Enduring Legacy, 12 vols. [1978-89], 3:298-99.

Utah Semi-Centennial Commission, The book of the pioneers [ca. 1897].

 

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