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1847 Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company

 

 Departure:

25-26 August 1847

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

11,16 October 1847

Company Information:
This company was composed of 117 returning Mormon Battalion veterans. They traveled over the Sierra Mountains from the Cosumnes River near Sutter's Fort in California. From the beginning, they divided and traveled separately in small groups, but generally within a few day's distance from each other. After crossing the mountains, they followed a course which took them to Fort Hall and then to Salt Lake Valley.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Allen, Albern (45)

Allen, George A. (Unknown)

Allen, Rufus Chester (19)

Allred, Redick Newton (25)

Averett, Elisha (36)

Beckstead, Orin Mortimer (20)

Beddome, William (18)

Bickmore, Gilbert (20)

Bliss, Robert Stanton (42)

Bronson, Clinton Doneral (22)

Brown, John (28)

Brownell, Russell Gideon (29)

Bunker, Edward (25)

Bush, William H. (Unknown)

Calkins, Sylvanus (24)

Campbell, Jonathan, Jr. (35)

Casper, William Wallace (26)

Casto, James (27)

Catlin, George Washington (29)

Chase, Hiram B. (24)

Clark, Joseph L. (19)

Clark, Lorenzo (41)

Cole, James Barnet (19)

Davis, Eleazer (21)

Davis, Sterling (25)

Davis, Walter L. (Unknown)

Dodge, Augustus Erastus (24)

Dyke, Simon (33)

Dykes, George Parker (33)

Egbert, Robert Cowden (26)

Ewell, John Martin (23)

Ewell, William Fletcher (31)

Fairbanks, Henry (21)

Fauney, Frederick (Unknown)

Fife, John (22)

Finlay, Thomas B. (Unknown)

Forbush, Lorin E. (20)

Forsgren, John Erick (31)

Garner, William (30)

Gilbert, John Richard (25)

Goodwin, Andrew (25)

 

Hancock, Charles Brent (24)

Hancock, George Washington (21)

Hancock, Levi Ward (44)

Hanks, Ephraim Knowlton (20)

Harris, Robert, Jr. (38)

Haskell, George Nile (49)

Haws, Alpheus Peter (21)

Hendricks, William Dorris (18)

Hickmott, John (Unknown)

Howell, Thomas Charles Davis (33)

Hoyt, Henry (31)

Hunsaker, Abraham (35)

Hunt, Jefferson (43)

Hunt, Marshall (18)

Huntsman, Isaiah (20)

Hyde, William (28)

Ivie, Richard Anderson (22)

Jameson, Charles (44)

Johnson, Henry (26)

Judd, Hiram (23)

King, John Morris (38)

Kirk, Thomas (32)

Lane, Lewis (21)

Lawson, John (42)

Lytle, Andrew (34)

Martin, Edward (28)

McArthur, Henry Morrow (27)

McCarty, Nelson (33)

McCord, Alexander (Unknown)

McCullough, Levi Hamilton (37)

Merrill, Ferdinand (17)

Merrill, Philemon Christopher (26)

Murdock, John Riggs (20)

Myler, James (25)

Olmstead, Hiram (19)

Oman, George Washington (45)

Owens, Robert (29)

Pace, James (36)

Pace, William Byram (15)

Pace, Wilson Daniel (16)

Perrin, Charles Chauncy (35)

 

Pettegrew, David (55)

Pettegrew, James Phineas (22)

Porter, Sanford (24)

Pulsipher, David (18)

Rainey, David P. (30)

Raymond, Alonzo Pearis (26)

Richmond, William (Unknown)

Roberts, Levi (32)

Robinson, J. William (Unknown)

Rosecrans, George W. (45)

Savage, Levi (27)

Scott, Leonard Morris (17)

Sessions, Richard (48)

Sessions, William Bradford (20)

Smith, Albert (42)

Spidell, John (28)

St. John, Stephen (37)

Standage, Henry (29)

Stewart, Robert Boyd (30)

Study, David (30)

Swarthout, Hamilton (18)

Swarthout, Nathan (24)

Taggart, George Washington (30)

Tanner, Albert Miles (22)

Thompson, James Lewis (29)

Thompson, John Crow (26)

Tuttle, Luther Terry (21)

Twitchell, Anciel (22)

Tyler, Daniel (Unknown)

Vrandenburg, Adna (28)

Wade, Moses (55)

Wheeler, Merrill W. (21)

White, Joseph (46)

Whitworth, Robert Walton (19)

Wilcox, Henry (34)

Wilcox, Matthew (Unknown)

Winn, Dennis Wilson (30)

Sources

 

Allred, Redick Newton, Autobiographical sketch and diary 1898-1903, reel 9, item 3, vol. 3, 21-23.   

Bliss, Robert Stanton, Diary 1846 Aug.-1848 Jan.   

Bunker, Edward, Autobiography, 1894, 13-14.   

Hancock, Charles Brent, Reminiscences and diary, 1884-1889.   

Hancock, Levi Ward, Autobiography and journal [ca. 1878], 286-[301].   

Hancock, Levi Ward, Journals 1846-1847, fd. 3.   

King, John Morris, Diaries [1846]-[1850], vol. 3.   

Merrill, Philemon Christopher, Autobiography [ca. 1890], 5.   

Pace, James, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1861], 7-8.   

Pace, James, Diary, 1846 Jul-1847 Oct., 53-66.   

Pace, William Byram, Autobiography 1904, [8].  

Pettegrew, David, "A History of David Pettegrew," fd. 1, 102, in David Pettegrew, Papers 1840-1857.   


   

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