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Edward Hunter Company (1850)

 

 Departure:

unknown

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

13 October 1850

Company Information:
261 individuals and 67 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). This company was organized at 12-mile creek near the Missouri River. It was the first Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Barney, Electa Jane (10)
Barney, Malinda Abigail (12)
Barney, Royal (42)
Barney, Sarah Bowen E. (39)
Barney, Sarah Melissa (16)
Bigelow, Asa Elijah (18)
Bigelow, Daniel (8)
Bigelow, Hiram (21)
Bigelow, Lovina (17)
Bigelow, Mary Gibbs (41)
Bigelow, Moroni (9)
Bigelow, Nahum (65)
Bigelow, Sariah (12)
Burlingame, [Mr.] (Unknown)
Burnham, Andrew (42)
Burnham, Charles Caroll (12)
Burnham, Emily Frances (10)
Burnham, Harriet Ruhamah (33)
Burnham, Mary Kimball (1)
Burnham, [Mr.] (Unknown)
Butterfield, Don Carlos (7)
Butterfield, Edward L. (4)
Butterfield, Margaret Major (49)
Buxton, Elizabeth (33)
Buxton, Emma (2)
Buxton, Joseph (32)
Buxton, Mary (1)
Campbell, Amelia (37)
Campbell, Catherine (4)
Campbell, Robert (41)
Campbell, Robert (2)
Chase, Sisson Almadorous (41)
Cheever, Henry Albert (23)
Clapp, Benjamin Lynn (35)
Clapp, Corinda Elvira (1)
Clapp, Elvira Randall (25)
Clapp, Joel Henry (infant)
Clayton, John (Unknown)
Cluff, Benjamin (20)
Cluff, Betsy Hall (44)
Cluff, David (55)
Cluff, Harvey Harris (14)
Cluff, Henry (7)
Cluff, Hyrum (9)
Cluff, Joseph (16)
Cluff, Samuel Sampson (12)
Cluff, William Wallace (18)
Cluff , Alfred Arron (5)
Cluff , Orson (3)
Conder ( or Condie ), Edward [or Edwin] (26)
Conder ( or Condie ), Helen Pierce (24)
Condit, Ann (42)
Condit, Charlotte (16)
Decker, Isaac (Unknown)
Dives, Verulam (16)
Dudley, Brigham Simeon (1)
Dudley, Charles Heber (1)
Dudley, Mary Ann (15)
Dudley, Mary Ann Robinson (39)
Dudley, Oliver Hunt (41)
Dudley, Oliver Noah (Unknown)
Dudley, Susan Jane Katherine (14)
Eaton, John Sagers (9)
Eaton, Joseph Orlando Beckwith (11)
Eaton, Minerva (14)
Felt, Eliza Ann Preston (30)
Felt, Joseph Henry (10)
Felt, Margaret Eliza (infant)
Felt, Nathaniel Henry (34)
Felt, Nathaniel Preston (4)
Fordham, Amos Pierre (9)
Fordham, Anna Bibbins Chaffee (39)
Fordham, Anna Maria (6)
Fordham, Elijah (54)
Fordham, Joseph Elijah (2)
Fordham, Mary Louisa (1)
Foster, Solon (39)
Fullmer, David (3)
Fullmer, Elvira Martha (10)
Fullmer, Eugene Bertrand (17)
Fullmer, Hannibal Octavius (13)
Fullmer, Hortensia Jane (8)
Fullmer, Junius Sextus (15)
Fullmer, Rhoda Ann (2)
Fullmer, Rhoda Ann Marvin (37)
Fullmer, Susannah (6)
Goldthwaite, Jesse (Unknown)
Goldthwaite, Lydia (Unknown)
Greene, Nancy Zerviah (20)

Hammer, Elizabeth Osborn (18)
Haven, Abby (5)
Haven, Jesse (36)
Haven, Martha (3)
Haven, Martha Spring Hall (30)
Hewitt, [Mr.] (Unknown)
Heywood, Alice Grafton (2)
Heywood, Franklin (Unknown)
Heywood, Joseph Leland (35)
Heywood, Sarepta Maria (27)
Holdaway, Daniel Webster (15)
Holdaway, David Oscar (18)
Holdaway, Elizabeth Haws (20)

Homiston, Clarissa Blake (53)
Homiston, Lyman (71)
Hunter, Edward (57)
Hutchinson, Catherine (7)
Hutchinson, Constancia E. D. Langdon (33)
Hutchinson, George Henry Young (1)
Hutchinson, Jacob Flynn (34)
Hutchinson, Jacob Flynn, Jr. (4)
Hutchinson, Nathaniel (9)
Hutchinson, Sarah Ellen (infant)
Knight, Hyrum Helaman (3)
Knight, James Philander (12)
Knight, Jesse (5)
Knight, Joseph (10)
Knight, Lydia (6)
Knight, Lydia Goldthwaite (38)
Knight, Newell (8)
Knight, Sally (14)

Lawrence, Henry William (15)
Lawrence, James (23)
Lawrence, Julia A. (12)
Lawrence, Margaret Edwards (9)
Lawrence, Sarah (24)
Lockley, Ellen (44)
Lyons, Amanda Fitzallen (6)
Lyons, Caleb Washington (4)
Lyons, Oscar Fitzallen (9)
Lyons, Sarah Bigler (1)
Lyons, Sarah Bigler (30)
Marshall, Washington (Unknown)
McCall, Dorothy (37)
McCall, James A. (64)
McMinn, Mary Dull (63)
Mead, Henrietta (31)
Mecham, Erastus (24)
Mecham, Martha (18)
Mecham, Sylvia Ameretta (infant)
Megridge, Henry (Unknown)
Mifflin, Edward (4)
Murray, Fanny Young (62)
Noakes, Elizabeth Wilcox Mead (66)
Olpin, Mary Ann (26)
Palmer, Mary Ann (35)
Palmer ( or Pulmer ), James (30)
Parker, Henry (42)
Phearson, William (Unknown)
Phiners, [Mrs.] (Unknown)
Pitt, Cornelia Melvina (24)
Pitt, Moroni William (8)
Pitt, Robert Calvin (infant)
Pitt, William (37)
Pitt, William Heber (3)
Rin, [Elder] (Unknown)
Robinson, Noah (Unknown)
Robinson, Susannah (Unknown)
Rockwell, Martha (21)
Rockwell, Merritt (27)
Rockwell, Porter (1)
Romney, Brigham (11)
Romney, Elizabeth (16)
Romney, Elizabeth Gaskell (41)
Romney, Heber (6)
Romney, Hiram (5)
Romney, Joseph Gaskell (12)
Romney, Mary Ann (2)
Romney, Miles (44)
Romney, Miles Park (6)
Romney, Sarah (14)
Rose, Adelaide (infant)
Rose, Minerva Sagers Eaton (41)
Rose, Ralph (30)
Rushton, John Willard (3)
Rushton, Margaret (27)
Rushton, William James (infant)

Sagers, Harriet Emeline Barney (19)
Sagers, Lucy Marilla Wheaton (29)
Sagers, Ruth Adelia Wheaton (17)
Sagers, William Henry Harrison (36)
Sagers, William Orson (infant)
Silcock, Alma H. (8)
Silcock, Jane Heath (23)
Silcock, Nicholas Thomas (31)
Silcock, Thomas (infant)
Smith, Charles Nephi (26)
Smoot, Abraham Owen (35)
Spence, Martha (38)
Spencer, Amelia Brown (46)
Spencer, Henrietta (11)
Spencer, Julia Josephine (13)
Spilsbury, Alma Platte (infant)
Spilsbury, Fannie S. (27)
Spilsbury, George (27)
Steward, [Mrs.] (Unknown)
Thompson, Cyrenus Wilford (24)
Thompson, Dewitt Clinton (14)
Thompson, Ellen Diadema (13)
Thompson, George Vaughn (52)
Thompson, Laura Althea (15)
Thompson, Levi Ozro (20)
Thompson, Lucia Spalding (53)
Thompson, Obed Vaughn (18)
Thompson, Ward Spalding (25)
Tippets, Abigail Eliza (infant)
Tippets, Alice Jeanette (6)
Tippets, Emma Ann (4)
Tippets, Mary Ellen (1)
Tippets, Sophia Burnham Mead (37)
Tippets, William Plummer (37)
Walker, [Mr.] (Unknown)
Weymouth, Henrietta Druzilla (20)
Wight, Charles (19)
Wight, Harriet Amelia (1)
Wight, Harriet Bateman (19)
Wight, Heber (5)
Wight, Joseph Moroni (6)
Wight, Lewis (43)
Wight, Lyman (20)
Wight, Nancy (3)
Wight, Nancy Urania Elliott (41)
Wight, Sarah (11)
Wight, William (8)
Wight, William Lewis (infant)
Winkless, Jane (1)
Winkless, Joseph Thomas (3)
Winkless, Mary Eliza (6)
Woolley, Edwin Dilworth (43)
Woolley, Edwin Gordon (4)
Wright, Amos Russell (10)
Wright, Jonathan (2)
Wright, Jonathan Calkins (41)
Wright, King David Darwin (6)
Wright, Lyman Van (Infant)
Wright, Virginia Ann Charlotte (8)
Young, Harriet Maria (16)
Young, Mary Jane Bigelow (22)
Young, Persis Goodall (44)

Narrative

 

“Latest From the Plains,” Frontier Guardian, 10 July 1850, 2.

"Emigration Closed," Deseret News, 19 Oct. 1850, 140

"Arrival of the Mail from Salt Lake," Frontier Guardian, 14 Sept. 1850, 1.

"From the Plains," Frontier Guardian, 21 Aug. 1850, 2.

"Interesting News from the Plains," Frontier Guardian, 24 July 1850, 1-2.

Deseret News, 5 Oct. 1850, 134.

Cluff, Harvey Harris, Autobiography and journals, 1868-1912, vol. 1, 8-14.

Fullmer, Rhoda Ann Marvin, Reminiscences, 1885, 5.

Heywood, Martha Spence, Not by Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-56, ed. Juanita Brooks [1978], 11-32. Source Locations

Heywood, Martha Spence, Journals 1850-[1860], vol. 1, 3-14. Source Locations

Lyons, Oscar F. , Autobiographical sketch, [1]. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)

Palmer, James, Reminiscences [ca.1884-1898], 103-13. Source Locations

Pitt, Robert Calvin, [Interview], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 23:147-48.

Romney, Miles, Journal [ca. 1850 Mar.]-1855 May, 1-2. Source Locations

Spilsbury, George, [Autobiography], in Viva Skousen Brown,The Life and Posterity of Alma Platte Spilsbury [1983], 42-43.

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