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Edward Hunter - Jacob Foutz Company (1847)

 

Departure:

19 June 1847

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

1 October 1847

Company Information:

155 individuals and 59 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

Bainbridge, Fredrick (22)

Boswell, Abraham (24)

Bronson, Laurinda Elizabeth (10)

Bronson, Leman (55)

Bronson, Martha Ann (13)

Bronson, Wilmer Wharton (17)

Brown, Franklin (4)

Brown, Henry Jacob (infant)

Calkins, Louisa (20)

Collins, Albert Washington (33)

Collins, Sarah Adeline (4)

Collins, Susan Newman (29)

Covington, Berrill (29)

Covington, Elizabeth Thomas (27)

Covington, Emily Jane (5)

Covington, John Thomas (7)

Covington, Robert Dockery (32)

Covington, Robert Laborius (infant)

Dodge, Nathaniel Morgan (16)

Dodge, Sarah Melissa (20)

Doremus, Harriet Fairbanks (28)

Doremus, Henry John [or Henry I.] (46)

Doremus, Martha Zabriskie (infant)

Fellows, Albert Gallatin (48)

Fellows, Amelia Mariah (9)

Fellows, Cordelia (42)

Fellows, Phoebe Louisa (7)

Fellows, William Harlow (18)

Foutz, Catherine (15)

Foutz, Jacob (3)

Foutz, Jacob (46)

Foutz, Joseph Lehi (10)

Foutz, Margaret (7)

Foutz, Margaret Mann (45)

Foutz, Nancy Ann (21)

Hadlock, Mary Elizabeth (20)

Hall, Louisa Jane (2)

Hall, Newton Daniel (infant)

Hall, Newton Daniel (28)

Hall, Sarah Jane Busenbark (22)

Heath, Frederick (14)

Heath, Henry (18)

Heath, Thomas (15)

Hunter, Ann Eliza Standley (3)

Hunter, Ann Standley (39)

Hunter, Edward (53)

Hunter, Mary Ann Whitesides (21)

Hunter, Sarah Ann (2)

Keller, Alva (38)

Keller, Nancy Ann (10)

Keller, Roxey Lusina Elliot (36)

Laney, Elizabeth Scearce (25)

Laney, George Culbert Howard (2)

Laney, Isaac (31)

Laney, Margaret Elizabeth (4)

Laney, Sarah Ann (infant)

Laney, Sarah Ann Howard (24)

Laney, William (31)

Lowry, Abner (15)

Lowry, George Moroni (11)

Lowry, John (18)

Lowry, John (48)

Lowry, Mary Artimesia (13)

Lowry, Mary Wilcox (44)

Lowry, Sarah Jane (8)

Lowry, Susan Lucretia (13)

Mann, Susanna (22)

Mathis, Mary Catherine (17)

Mathis ( or Matthews ), James Nicholas (21)

Mathis ( or Matthews ), Sarah Ann (13)

McBride, Abigail Mead (77)

McBride, John (59)

McBride, Lemira (54)

McBride, Lydia Minerva (15)

McBride, Samuel (58)

McBride, Samuel Henry (11)

Merrill, Phoebe Odell (60)

Merrill, Samuel (63)

Merrill, William Wallace (12)

Montice, Sarah (9)

Morris, Jemima (16)

Noah, Martha (39)

Owens, Catherine Ann Williams (27)

Owens, Jerome (8)

Owens, Nephi (3)

Pettit, Edwin Alfred (13)

Potter, Elijah John (infant)

Potter, Gardner Godfrey (3)

Potter, Sarah Ann Whitmey (29)

Potter, William George (5)

Potter, William Washington (28)

Rice, Ellen Mariah (infant)

Rice, Ira (53)

Rice, Lucy Witter Geer (23)

Rice, William Kelsey (24)

Robertson, John (Unknown)

Scearce, William (68)

Secrist, Ann Eliza Logan (24)

Secrist, Jacob Foutz (28)

Secrist, Louisa (infant)

Seeley, Clarissa Jane Wilcox (25)

Seeley, David Randolph (27)

Seeley, Don Carlos (1)

Seeley, Elizabeth (10)

Seeley, Elizabeth DeHart (31)

Seeley, Emily (1)

Seeley, Justus Azel (67)

Seeley, Justus Wellington (32)

Seeley, Mary Pettit (25)

Seeley, Mehitable Bennett (66)

Seeley, Orange (4)

Seeley, Sarah (3)

Seeley, William Stewart (35)

Shurtleff, Elizabeth Loomis (31)

Shurtleff, Emerson Davis (8)

Shurtleff, Harrison Tuttle (6)

Shurtleff, Hiram Chester (1)

Shurtleff, Susan E. (infant)

Shurtleff, Vincent or Vinsen (33)

Sprague, Ithamar Thomas (39)

Sterrett, William Gibson (34)

Stump, Leonard (55)

Thomas, Ann Bingham (34)

Thomas, Ann Crosby or Crosley (35)

Thomas, Catherine White (14)

Thomas, Daniel Monroe (36)

Thomas, Henry J. (65)

Thomas, John Pledger (24)

Thomas, Mahala Jane Matthews (19)

Thomas, Philemon (35)

Thomas, Tennessee (10)

Tuttle, Francenia Lucy (1)

Tuttle, Henry (22)

Tuttle, Hubbard Bellows (31)

Tuttle, Lucy Loomis (25)

Warrick, Calyst Ward (3)

Warrick, Louisa Taylor (23)

Warrick, Thomas (29)

Wilcox, John Henry Owen (23)

Wilcox, Sarah Seeley (67)

Woolf, Absalom (15)

Woolf, Andrew (1)

Woolf, Hannah Eliza (8)

Woolf, Isaac (6)

Woolf, James (11)

Woolf, John Anthony (4)

Woolf, John Anthony (42)

Woolf, Sarah Ann (13)

Woolf, Sarah Ann Devoe (33)

Young, Anna (15)

Young, Elizabeth (10)

Young, Elizabeth Seeley (40)

Young, Hannah Seeley (5)

Young, James Ross (42)

Young, John (18)

Young, Mary (16)

Young, Sally or Sarah (12)

Sources

Hunter, Edward and Jacob Foutz, Letter, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 17 Aug. 1847, 5-6. Full Text

Hunter, Edward, [Autobiography], in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. [1958-77], 6:325.

Pettit, Edwin, Biography of Edwin Pettit, 9-10.

Scearce, William, Diary, 1847 June-Sep.

Scearce, William, Journal, 1-6.

Seely, David, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1885]. Full Text

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

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