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Thomas E. Ricks Company (1866)

 

 Departure:

6-10 July 1866

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

29 August 1866

Company Information:
251 individuals and 46 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Affleck, John (18)

Alva, William (Unknown)

Anderson, Ann (59)

Anderson, William (Unknown)

Barnes, Mary (21)

Beck, Jonas Nuttall (28)

Bolton, Thomas (18)

Bowler, Jabez (24)

Buck, Charles (27)

Buck, Hannah Chantry (25)

Buck, Joseph (2)

Buck, Mary Ann (infant)

Buck, William Henry (5)

Burgess, Charles (34)

Burgess, Edith Amelia (3)

Burgess, Elizabeth Phillips (34)

Burgess, Harriett Emma (10)

Callan, Martha (23)

Cook, George (30)

Cook, Maria Elizabeth Robbins (25)

Cook, Susannah (1)

Cook, William (4)

Cooper, Ann Jackson (26)

Cooper, Emma (24)

Cooper, William Albert (1)

Cooper, William Henry (26)

Cracroft, Sarah (19)

Cunnington, Mary J. (24)

Dalton, John Luther (22)

Davis, Ann Williams (37)

Davis, John (29)

Davis, John (21)

Davis, Mary (35)

Davis, Ruth (9)

Davis, William (5)

Davis ( or Griffiths ), Mary Ann (12)

Davis ( or Griffiths ), Rachael (17)

Day, Emma (24)

Day, Naomi (50)

Densley, Ann (11)

Densley, Daniel (40)

Densley, Daniel (8)

Densley, Mary (1)

Densley, Samuel (13)

Densley, Sarah Beech (33)

Dobson, Mary (59)

Drage, Mary Ann (infant)

Drage, Mary Elizabeth (26)

Drage, William (24)

Edwards, Edward (19)

Edwards, Elizabeth (59)

Elyer, Lucy (28)

Embling, Maria (30)

Evans, Benjamin D. (23)

Evans, Jane Davis (55)

Evans, Jemima (17)

Evans, Johanna (Unknown)

Evans, William (Unknown)

Eyley, Thomas (54)

Eynon, Margaret (35)

Ferguson, Christiana (50)

Ferguson, Elizabeth H. (29)

Flinders, Alma (7)

Flinders, Elizabeth Bexson (37)

Flinders, John (39)

Flinders, Willard (13)

Ford, George (20)

Fullmer, Junius Sextus (31)

Gay, Hiel K. (24)

Gee, Robert W. (11)

Gee, Sarah E. (13)

Gibbs, Elizabeth (13)

Gibbs, Ellen Marie (18)

Gibbs, Ellen Phillips (53)

Gibbs, Emma Boston (16)

Gibbs, Fanny (12)

Gibbs, George Duggan (46)

Gibbs, John Henry (46)

Gillen, James W. (Unknown)

Graham, Annie (7)

Graham, Christina Burns (1)

Graham, James Burns (3)

Graham, Janet Dixon (18)

Graham, Jean Gordon (15)

Graham, Margaret Burns (39)

Graham, Margaret Burns (19)

Graham, Mary (6)

Graham, Robert Dundas (41)

Graham, Robert Dundas (11)

Gregg, Annie (32)

Gregg, William C. (32)

Grier, James (52)

Griffin, Caroline (21)

Griffin, Mary Pitts (56)

Griffin, Thomas (10)

Griffin, Walter (18)

Griffin, William H. (52)

Griffiths ( or Davis ), Elizabeth (Unknown)

Griffiths ( or Davis ), Fanny (Unknown)

Griffiths ( or Davis ), Thomas (Unknown)

Grover, Jane (22)

Haderlie, Anna (6)

Haderlie, Anna Elizabeth Zollinger (34)

Haderlie, Carolina (infant)

Haderlie, Charles Henry (7)

Haderlie, John Ulrich (32)

Haderlie, Louisa (8)

Hagell, Eliza Mary (13)

Hagell, Ellen (3)

Hagell, Fanny (11)

Hagell, John (49)

Hagell, Martha Chamberlane (6)

Haigh, William H. (Unknown)

Hammer, John (Unknown)

Hansen, A. (Unknown)

Hansen, Alfred (Unknown)

Hansen, C. (Unknown)

Hansen, Edward (Unknown)

Hansen, Louise (Unknown)

Hodgson, Annie [or Ann] (20)

Hodgson, Jane (39)

Holmes, Caroline (20)

Holmes, Charles (17)

Holmes, John (48)

Holmes, John (22)

Holmes, Mary Rayson (53)

Holmes, Sarah Selina (15)

Housman, Ann (27)

Hughes, Walter T. (23)

James, Christiana (36)

Jenkins, Ann (19)

Jenkins, David (22)

Jones, David M. (51)

Jones, Eleanor (23)

Jones, Elizabeth Naomi (11)

Jones, Emmeline (Unknown)

Jones, Hyrum (13)

Jones, James (13)

Jones, Jane (11)

Jones, Joseph (13)

Jones, Lewis (4)

Jones, Lewis (62)

Jones, Margaret (17)

Jones, Mary (Unknown)

Jones, Mary J. (Unknown)

Jones, Ruth (15)

Jones, Sarah (15)

Jones, Sophia (38)

Jones, Susannah (20)

Jones, Susannah Davis (56)

Jones, William R. (6)

Lallis, Jane (39)

Llewelyn, Ann (57)

Lyons, Anna (Unknown)

Lyons, Christian (Unknown)

Lyons, Neils (Unknown)

Marriott, Ann Gregory (42)

Marriott, George (37)

Marriott, Mary Ann (16)

Marshall, John (19)

Meek, Ann (5)

Meek, Ann Ennis (58)

Meek, Benjamin (28)

Meek, Louisa Rogers (27)

Meek, Thomas (58)

Michael, Andrew (Unknown)

Michael, Ann (27)

Michael, Mary A. (Unknown)

Middleton, Edward (Unknown)

Miller, Alice Ophelia (21)

Miller, Ann Shepherd (41)

Miller, John Hawkins (47)

Miller, John Shepherd (18)

Morgan, Ann Prosser (53)

Morgan, David C. (Unknown)

Morgan, Emma (18)

Morgan, James (12)

Morgan, Jane (19)

Morgan, John (21)

Morgan, Sarah Ann (10)

Morgan, Watkin (63)

Myers, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Neilson, J. P. (Unknown)

Nichol, Susan (19)

Nicholas, John (26)

Nicholas, William George (6)

Ottinger, [Professor] (Unknown)

Parkhurst ( or Pankhurst ), Ellen (24)

Poulter, Esther Goodyear (22)

Poulter, Wilson (23)

Powell, Mary (43)

Priday, Thomas Samuel (21)

Pusey, Henry (Unknown)

Ralph, Margaret (38)

Raymond, William W. (50)

Ricks, Thomas Edwin (38)

Robbins, Lovina (21)

Robbins, William (53)

Robinson, Eli (Unknown)

Robinson, Eli (Unknown)

Robinson, Mary (Unknown)

Robinson, Mary J. (Unknown)

Roderick, Margaret (20)

Salmon, Margaret Fraser (22)

Salmon, William Weir (28)

Savage, Charles Roscoe (33)

Skelton, Martha (Unknown)

Smith, Agnes (8)

Smith, Agnes McDowell (47)

Smith, Alexander Hale (28)

Smith, Annie (Unknown)

Smith, Arthur (5)

Smith, Eleanor [or Elmore] (4)

Smith, Emma (26)

Smith, Henry (6)

Smith, Isaac (10)

Smith, James (28)

Smith, James (11)

Smith, Jane (Unknown)

Smith, Jane (3)

Smith, Martha (1)

Smith, Mary Elizabeth (13)

Smith, Thomas (19)

Smith, William (Unknown)

Stayner, Charles W. (26)

Stredder, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Street, William (22)

Sugden, Martha Spencer (21)

Sugden, Mary Spencer (58)

Sugden, Sarah (30)

Summer ( or Sumner ), Margery (33)

Tate, Ann (26)

Tate, Joseph (2)

Taylor, Abraham (20)

Taylor, George (15)

Taylor, Martha Thompson (62)

Thomas, David (59)

Thornley, Ellen (58)

Thornley , John (59)

Tyson, Sarah (Unknown)

Tyson, William (34)

Wade, William (59)

Waldron ( or Waldrome or Waldram ), Ann (48)

Walters, Daniel Williams (8)

Walters, Edward Williams (6)

Walters, Hannah (9)

Walters, Jane Sarah (2)

Walters, John Bright (infant)

Walters, Margaret Williams (30)

Walters, William Leigh (31)

Walters, William Williams (4)

Wheeler, William (51)

Williams, Catharine (18)

Williams, Letitia Cousine (19)

Williams, Mary A. (17)

Williams, William David (27)

Wolfe, [Brother] (Unknown)

Yallop, Ellen Maria (18)

Zollinger, Jacob (21)

Sources

 

"Telegrams," Deseret News [Weekly], 9 Aug. 1866, 284.   

"Captain Ricks' Train," Deseret News [Weekly], 30 Aug. 1866, 317.   

"Emigrants and Trains," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 5 July 1866, 3.   

"Emigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 26 July 1866, 3.   

"First Immigration Train," Deseret News [Weekly], 30 Aug. 1866, 309.   

"List of Names in Incoming Passenger Trains," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Aug. 1866, 289.    

"Returned Missionaries," Deseret News [Weekly] 30 Aug. 1866, 317.   

"Telegrams [2]," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Aug. 1866, 293.   

"Telegrams," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Aug. 1866, 293.   

"Telegrams," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 Aug. 1866, 299.   

"Telegrams," Deseret News [Weekly], 26 July 1866, 269.   

"The Immigration [2]," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 9 Aug. 1866, 3.   

"The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 12 July 1866, 253.   

Beck, Martha, Autobiography, in Joel Edward Ricks, Cache Valley Historical Material [ca. 1955], reel 3, item 25, 3-4.   

Haderlie, Charles Henry, Autobiographical sketch, [ca. 1932], 1.   

Marriott, Ann Gregory, Diary 1866 Apr.-Sept., 17-32.   

Savage, Charles R., "A Photographic Tour of Nearly 9,000 Miles," Philadelphia Photographer, 1867, 313-16.   

Smith, Alexander Hale, "'We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet': Joseph Smith's Son Tells of First Hearing the Hymn," Vision, no. 45 (Dec. 2003): 14-15.   

Smith, Alexander Hale, "Without Purse or Scrip," Restoration Voice, May-June 1995, 22-24.   

Smith, Vida E., "Biography of Alexander Hale Smith," Journal of History, July 1911, 267-78 and ibid., Oct. 1911, 394-95.   

Zollinger, Jacob, Reminiscences, 19, in Ruth Zollinger, comp., Jacob Zollinger family genealogy.   

 

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