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1847 Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company

 

Departure:

19 June 1847

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

4 October 1847

Company Information:

160 individuals 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

Badger, Nancy Garr (24)

Badger, Nancy Maria (infant)

Bean, George Washington (16)

Bird, Samuel (53)

Bringhurst, Ann Wollerton Dilworth (27)

Bringhurst, William (28)

Brown, Samuel (22)

Call, Highimsol (Unknown)

Carrington, Maria I. (7)

Carrington, Rhoda Maria Woods (23)

Case, Emily Melissa (17)

Case, Hannah Wiard (51)

Case, Solomon Cowels (21)

Casper, Sarah Ann Bean (18)

Casper, Sarah Jane (1)

Cheney, Elam (22)

Cheney, Hannah Compton (43)

Cook, Jane (Unknown)

Cook, Mary Pamela Morrow (45)

Cook, Matison (Unknown)

Cook, Washington Norwood (42)

Cook, Wiley (Unknown)

Crismon, Charles (37)

Crismon, Charles (3)

Crismon, Emily Prescinda (infant)

Crismon, Esther Ann (11)

Crismon, George C. (14)

Crismon, Martha Jane (15)

Crismon, Mary Ann (5)

Crismon, Mary Hill (32)

Crismon, Samantha (7)

Dilworth, Mary Jane (16)

Everett, Ann Eliza Adelaide (15)

Everett, Mary Davis (4)

Everett, Orpha Mariah Redfield (33)

Everett, Schuyler Alanson (12)

Fairbanks, Cornelius Mandeville (5)

Fairbanks, Harriet (infant)

Fairbanks, John Boylston (30)

Fairbanks, Mary Jane (6)

Fairbanks, Polly Brooks (67)

Fairbanks, Sarah VanWagoner (25)

Fairbanks, Susan Jones (1)

Fairbanks, Susan Mandeville (27)

Fairbanks, William David (37)

Fairbanks, William Henry (7)

Garr, Abel Weaver (13)

Garr, Benjamin Franklin (4)

Garr, Caroline Martin (11)

Garr, Fielding (53)

Garr, John Turner (20)

Garr, Mary Virginia (7)

Garr, Sarah Anna (8)

Garr, William Henry (16)

Gates, Jacob (36)

Gates, Mary Minerva Snow (34)

Grant, Caroline (2)

Grant, Caroline Van Dyke (29)

Grant, Jedediah Morgan (31)

Grant, Margaret S. (infant)

Green, Nathaniel G. (Unknown)

Greenwood, Alice Houghton (24)

Greenwood, Benjamin Young (1)

Greenwood, Joseph Robinson (3)

Greenwood, Margaret Ann (infant)

Greenwood, William (25)

Grundy, Elizabeth Hudson Hendricks (19)

Grundy, Isaac (35)

Hawkins, James (4)

Hawkins, Sarah M. (29)

Hendricks, Sarah (17)

Hoyt, Elizabeth Lamont Sperry (30)

Hoyt, Josephine Helen (3)

Huffaker, Elizabeth Melvina Richardson (18)

Huffaker, Granville W. (16)

Huffaker, Lewis Albert (6)

Huffaker, Rosilla (10)

Huffaker, Sarah Melinda (8)

Huffaker, Sidnah Elizabeth (9)

Huffaker, Simpson David (35)

Hyde, William (14)

Kelsey, Vina (10)

Lee, Nancy Ann (Unknown)

Leonard, Abigail Calkins (52)

Leonard, Lyman (54)

Mayberry, Gabriel (25)

McDavis ( or McDonald ), Joseph (27)

Molen, Alexander Campbell (16)

Molen, Docia Emmerine (13)

Molen, Francis Marion (11)

Molen, Geneva Ellen (2)

Molen, Hannah Elizabeth (6)

Molen, James Wesley (12)

Molen, Jesse (42)

Molen, Laurany Huffaker (38)

Molen, Margaret Ann (17)

Molen, Martha Melvina (infant)

Molen, Mary Erepta (infant)

Molen, Michael Webster (5)

Molen, Simpson Montgomery (14)

Molen, Sophronia Rosanna (9)

Morris, Daniel (Unknown)

Rebsey ( or Relsey ), Vienne (11)

Richey, James (25)

Richey, Lucinda Mangum (20)

Robinson, Rosetta (14)

Shed, Franklin Knox (22)

Shumway, Louisa (24)

Shumway, Mary Eliza (10)

Smith, Ann (13)

Smith, Halma James Van Wagonen (13)

Smith, HannahVan Wagonen (32)

Smith, Hyrum Van Wagonen (9)

Smith, James Henry (42)

Smith, John Van Wagonen (7)

Smith, Josiah Van Wagonen (11)

Smith, Mary Erma (2)

Smith, Sarah Ann (4)

Snow, Amanda Melvina (8)

Snow, Melvina Harvey (35)

Snow, Susan Harvey (39)

Snow, Willard Lycurgus (5)

Snow, Willard Trowbridge (35)

Sperry, Charles (17)

Sperry, Harrison (15)

Sperry, William Lamont (23)

St. John, Geneva Marietta (12)

St. John, Lydia Clarinda (3)

St. John, Sally E. Stanton (37)

Summey, Sarah (44)

Thomas, James Wiley (13)

Thomas, Jane Elizabeth (16)

Thomas, Joseph Madison (10)

Thurston, Caroline Rozalia (3)

Thurston, George Washington (16)

Thurston, Harriet Elizabeth (18)

Thurston, Huldah Cordelia (1)

Thurston, Julia Rosetta (5)

Thurston, Lucy Jane (21)

Thurston, Moses (29)

Thurston, Rosetta Bull (38)

Thurston, Ruben Johnson (7)

Thurston, Sarah Ann (12)

Thurston, Smith Butler (14)

Thurston, Thomas Jefferson (42)

Topham, Sarah (16)

Vance, Elizabeth Campbell (46)

Vance, Isaac Young (28)

Vance, James (20)

Vance, John (52)

Vance, John Abner (infant)

Vance, John F. (12)

Vance, Margaret M. (26)

Vance, Martha Eleanor Yeager (25)

Vance, Martha Jane (8)

Vance, Mary Elizabeth (2)

Vance, Mary Frances (2)

Vance, Sarah Jane (6)

Wardsworth, Hannah L. (Unknown)

Wattis, Edmund Orson (19)

Wattis, John (18)

Williams, Francis Marion (22)

Williams, Martha Jane Frazier (17)

Williams ( or Green ), Nathaniel (12)

Wordsworth ( or Vance ), Nancy Ann (22)

Young, John M (56)

Young, Mary Ann (45)

Sources

Bean, George Washington, Autobiography of George Washington Bean: A Utah Pioneer of 1847 and His Family Records, comp. Flora Diana Bean Horne [1945], 32-37.

Bean, George Washington, Autobiography, 1897, 40.

Bean, George Washington, Diary, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 1, item 9, vol. 3, 4.

Dilworth, John Taylor, Letter, 1847 Sept. 7, Rocky Mountains to William Wollerton, Lionville, Pennsylvania.

Gates, Jacob, Journals, 1836-1861, vol. 2.

Grant, Jedediah M., Letter, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 Aug. 1847, 3-4. Full Text

Greenwood, Alice Houghton, Autobiographical sketch, [3].

Greenwood, William, Papers, fd. 1 and fd. 2.

Greenwood, William, Record and genealogy, 17-18.

Molen, Simpson Montgomery, Autobiography, in Mormon biographical sketches collection [ca. 1900-1975], reel 5, box 6, fd. 15, item 1.

Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], 2-3.

Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch, in Chronicles of Courage, 8 vols. [1990-97], 8:59-60.

Sperry, Harrison, "Pioneers of 1847 Recount Experiences of the Journey Across the Plains and Life in the Old Forts in the Valley," Deseret Evening News, 14 Aug. 1920, sec. IV, p. 7. Full Text

Sperry, Harrison, Papers, 1919-1926, fd. 1, 1-2.

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

Vance, John, John Vance Journal 1846-1850 [2002].

Westover, Mary E. Shumway, Autobiography, in Mormon biographical sketches collection [ca. 1900-1975], reel 12, box 17, fd. 11, item 2, 3.

Westover, Mary E. Shumway, [Reminiscences], in Margaret Shumway Sevey, comp., The Charles Shumway Family, 1806-1979 [1979?], 35.

 

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