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Jonathan H. Holmes-Samuel Thompson Company (1848) |
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Departure: 2 July 1848 Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 6 September 1848 Company Information: This company consisted of 44 men and 1 woman, 39 of whom were returning Mormon Battalion veterans. In early May a small survey group set out from Sutter's Fort to find a trail across the Sierra Mountains that could be traversed by wagons. This company constructed a wagon road over Carson Pass which was later used by many traveling to and from California. They left Pleasant Valley (near Placerville) and crossed the Sierras to Carson Valley. At that point the company divided into smaller groups and traveled to Salt Lake City.
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Adair, George Wesley (28) Allen, Ezra Hela (33) Allred, James Riley (21) Behunin, Philo Marshall (20) Bigler, Henry William (33) Browett, Daniel (39) Brown, James S. (20) Bush, Richard (22) Clark, [Mr.] (Unknown) Coray, Melissa Burton (20) Coray, William (25) Cox, Henderson (18) Cox, John (37) Dennett, Daniel Quimby (39) Diamond, James (Unknown) |
Dobson, Joseph (43) Douglas, James (Unknown) Eagar, John (24) Elmer, Elijah (38) Evans, Israel (19) Green, Ephraim (41) Hammond, Francis Asbury (25) Hatch, Meltiar (22) Hatch, Orin (18) Holmes, Jonathan Harriman (42) Holt, William (27) Johnston, William James (23) Judd, Zadoc Knapp (20) Kelley, George (Unknown) Martin, Jesse Bigler (23) Miller, Daniel Morgan (26) Miller, Miles (29)
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Moss, David (29) Muir, William Smith (25) Pickup, George (27) Pixton, Robert (29) Pratt, Addison (46) Rogers, Samuel Hollister (29) Sly, James Calvin (40) Smith, Azariah (21) Stephens, Alexander (35) Strong, William (20) Thompson, Samuel (35) Truman, Jacob Mica (22) Weir, Thomas (38) White, John S. (Unknown) Willes, Ira Jones (36) Willes, William Sidney Smith (29) Workman, Oliver Gaultry (20) |
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[Bigler, Henry W.], Henele Pikale, "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor 21, no. 23 (1 Dec. 1886): 365-66. [Bigler, Henry W.], Henele Pikale, "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor 21, no. 24 (15 Dec. 1886): 371. Deseret News, 25 Dec. 1852, [2]. Bigler, Henry William, Reminiscences and diaries 1846-1850, vol. 1, 91-106. Bigler, Henry William, Reminiscences and diaries 1846-1850, vol. 2, 1-13. Elmer, Elijah, Diary, in Will Bagley, ed., "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7. Green, Ephraim, Journal 1848 June-Sept. and 1849 Dec. Hammond, F. A., "In Early Days. My Introduction to Mormonism," Juvenile Instructor 29, no. 16 (15 August 1894): 517-18. Holmes, Jonathan Harriman, Diary 1846-1848, vol. 1. Judd, Zadoc Knapp, Autobiography [1903-1907], 33-36. Kimball, Melissa Burton Coray, "Utah Woman's 2,000-Mile March Fifty-five Years Ago," Salt Lake Herald, 26 May 1901, 2. Pixton, Robert, Autobiography [ca. 1870], 30-31. Pratt, Addison, Journal, in Addison Pratt, Autobiography and journals, 1843-1852. Rogers, Samuel Hollister, Reminiscences and diary 1841-1886, vol. 1, 158-66. Smith, Azariah, Autobiographical sketch 1903, 6-8.
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