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Homer Duncan Company (1861)

 

Departure:

25 June 1861

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

13 September 1861

Company Information:

264 individuals and 47 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Armstrong, Francis (21)

Arthur ( or Arthyr ), Anne (22)

Arthur ( or Arthyr ), Margaret (25)

Bedenfield, William (Unknown)

Booth, David (Unknown)

Bowen, Mary (22)

Bradley, Ann (Unknown)

Britton, Caroline (47)

Britton, Charles (44)

Cairns , Thomas (Unknown)

Combs, Andrew William (15)

Combs, George Nelson (1)

Combs, Harriet (31)

Combs, John Anson (13)

Combs, Mary Ella (17)

Coombs, George (37)

Cornwall, Amos (17)

Coslett, William (Unknown)

Darke, Ann Smedley (63)

Darke, Frederick (65)

Davies ( or Davis ), John (30)

Davis, Catherine Ann Arthur (28)

Davis, Evan Arthur (infant)

Davis, John Arthur (2)

Deane, Charles (32)

Deane, Charles Cope (2)

Deane, John Cope (8)

Deane, Joseph Cope (4)

Deane, Mary Cope (27)

Dixon, Hannah (55)

Duncan, Homer (46)

Edghill, James (21)

Ellis, George (30)

Ellis, Jamima Rose Wiggill (24)

Ellis, Jesse (1)

Ellis, John Daniel (5)

Ellis, William (3)

Evans, Benjamin Pearce (43)

Evans, Elizabeth (6)

Evans, Everina (5)

Evans, Martha George (39)

Fango, Gobo (8)

Foster, Hannah (51)

Foster, Joseph Elias (23)

Foster, Joyce Hillman (27)

Foster, Stephen (50)

Foster, Stephen T. (18)

Gampton, Elizabeth Ann Heath (21)

Gampton, William Henry (22)

Gillespie, Agnes (8)

Gillespie, Alexander (31)

Gillespie, Alexander (4)

Gillespie, Elizabeth (6)

Gillespie, Ellen (infant)

Gillespie, Marion [or Mary McKinley] (33)

Gillespie, Mary (10)

Gould, Ann Simpson (30)

Gould, Elizabeth Boyd (4)

Gould, Robert (29)

Gould, Robert Simpson (2)

Green, Thomas (Unknown)

Grey, Andrew (Unknown)

Gwynn, William (Unknown)

Hart, Emily (infant)

Hart, Harriet (36)

Hart, Harriet R. (11)

Hart, Joseph H. (7)

Hart, Noah (3)

Hart, William (37)

Hastler, Betsy, jun (Unknown)

Hastler, Maria (Unknown)

Hastler, Sarah (Unknown)

Heaton, Jonathan, Jr. (37)

Hogg, Robert (46)

Howell, Ann (7)

Howell, James Parley (1)

Howell, Louisa Thomas (39)

Howell, Margaret (3)

Howell, Martha Leah (17)

Howell, Richard (14)

Howell ( or Howells; Howels ), William (42)

Hughes, William (Unknown)

Huntsman, Levi (Unknown)

Hutchinson, Robert Alexander (9)

Jamieson, William (22)

Jenkins, Ann (14)

Jenkins, Ann Davies (38)

Jenkins, David Hyrum (infant)

Jenkins, Evan (44)

Jenkins, Henry Evan (7)

Jenkins, John (16)

Jenkins, Julietta Amelia (5)

Jenkins, Margaret (3)

Jenkins, Mary S. (3)

Jenkins, Moroni (12)

Jenkins, William Thomas (9)

Jessop, Thomas (20)

John, Annie Jane (infant)

John, David (28)

John, Mary Wride (29)

Jones, Daniel (Unknown)

Jones, David (Unknown)

Jones, David (36)

Jones, Elizabeth (24)

Jones, Ellen Williams (21)

Jones, Farner (Unknown)

Jones, James (Unknown)

Jones, John B. (Unknown)

Jones, Richard P. (Unknown)

Jones, Thomas (Unknown)

Jones, Thomas Rees (32)

Kingsman, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Lang, Ann Tull (29)

Lang, Benjamin (29)

Lang, Giles Benjamin (5)

Leiby, Alfred (Unknown)

Lewis, John (Unknown)

Llewellyn, John (Unknown)

Lockwood, Mary (22)

Luff, George Thomas (26)

Luff, Hannah Mary Dixon (26)

Luff, Harry (18)

Luff, Mary Ann (infant)

McDougall, Georgena (18)

McNiven, James Scott (13)

McNiven, Janette (34)

McNiven, Jessie (8)

McOmie, Elizabeth (infant)

McOmie, Janet (27)

McOmie, John Pringle (25)

McOmie, Margaret McDougal (22)

Meredith, Sarah J. (18)

Merrick, John (Unknown)

Miller, Daniel (Unknown)

Miller, William (Unknown)

Morgan, John (19)

Morgan, William (Unknown)

Odell, Ann Newman (42)

Odell, Annie Sarah (14)

Odell, George Thomas (12)

Odell, Thomas George (38)

Owens, Owen (Unknown)

Partington, Elizabeth (26)

Partington, John (26)

Penrose, Bertha (infant)

Penrose, Charles William (29)

Penrose, Ernest Stratford (3)

Penrose, Jessie Lucetta (2)

Penrose, Kate (1)

Penrose, Lucetta Stratford (27)

Perry ( or Parry ), Mary (21)

Pitman, Mary Ann (Unknown)

Price, Matilda (18)

Robinson, Joseph G. (39)

Robinson, Sarah Hutchinson (27)

Russell, Ann Jane (25)

Russell, Isabella Millican (17)

Russell, Mary Elizabeth, jun. (28)

Russell, Mary Walton (50)

Russell, Samuel (26)

Russell, Sarah Eliza (20)

Sharp, Henry (Unknown)

Simpson, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Smith, John (Unknown)

Smith, Mary (Unknown)

Smith, Samuel (28)

Steggell, Jonathan (27)

Stock, Edward (38)

Stock, Frederick (11)

Stock, Kaziah Peck (22)

Stratford, Ann (18)

Stratford, Edwin (28)

Stratford, Edwin Alfred (4)

Stratford, Eliza Ann (2)

Stratford, Eliza Barwell (51)

Stratford, Emily (9)

Stratford, Jesse George (infant)

Stratford, Marianna Crabb (29)

Talbot, Albert Joseph (13)

Talbot, Charles Stewart (20)

Talbot, Edward William (10)

Talbot, Eliza (3)

Talbot, Hannah (17)

Talbot, Henry (50)

Talbot, Henry James (27)

Talbot, Hyrum Purcell (2)

Talbot, Livinia Ann Wall (24)

Talbot, Richard Alfred (12)

Talbot, Robert Wall (infant)

Talbot, Ruth Sweetnam (44)

Talbot, Sarah (15)

Talbot, Stephen Barton (6)

Talbot, Susanna (7)

Talbot, Thomas Benjamin (23)

Talbot, Walter George (8)

Taylor, Elizabeth (46)

Taylor, Elizabeth Jane (4)

Taylor, Frederick John (14)

Taylor, James (Unknown)

Taylor, Joseph (Unknown)

Taylor, Joshua (38)

Taylor, Louisa (3)

Thomas, David (26)

Turner, Charles (18)

Turner, Frederick (13)

Turner, John (53)

Wall, Robert William Wilson (19)

Walters, Martha (44)

Wanless, Mary O'Dell (21)

Wanless, Sarah Ellen (1)

Wanless, William (40)

Ware ( or Waire ), Mary (17)

Watson, Janet (15)

Watson, William (17)

Weston ( or Western ), Samuel (17)

Wiggill, Eli (50)

Wiggill, Frances Amelia (13)

Wiggill, Jeremiah Francis (22)

Wiggill, Joseph Elijah (7)

Wiggill, Priscilla Jane Talbot (19)

Wiggill, Rosanna Maria (14)

Wiggill, Suannah Bentley (47)

Williams, Elizabeth (59)

Williams, Elizabeth, jr. (18)

Williams, Emma (41)

Wood, Elizabeth (30)

Wride, Ann Davis (21)

Wride, Barry (27)

Wride, Hannah Selman (22)

 

Sources

Duncan, Homer, [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book." Full Text

Duncan, Homer, Report of Elder Homer Duncan's mission to England 1861, fd. 2.

Jenkins, John, Autobiographical sketch, 1933, 1-2.

John, David, Journals, 1856-1908, reel 1, vol. 1, 253-64.

John, Mary Jane Wride, Autobiographical sketch, 79-80, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, vol. 1. Full Text

Wiggill, Eli, Autobiography, 1883, 466-85.

Wiggill, Eli, [Autobiography], in An Enduring Legacy, 12 vols. [1978-89], 8:202-6.

 

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