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Homer Duncan Company (1861)

 

 Departure:

25 June 1861

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

13 September 1861

Company Information:

264 individuals and 47 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Armstrong, Francis W. (21)

Arthur , Anne (22)

Arthur , Margaret (25)

Bedenfield, William (Unknown)

Booth, David (Unknown)

Bowen, Mary (22)

Bradley, Ann (Unknown)

Britton, Caroline (47)

Britton, Charles (44)

Cairns , Thomas (Unknown)

Coombs, Andrew William (5)

Coombs, George (37)

Coombs, George Nelson (1)

Coombs, Harriet Durston (31)

Coombs, John Anson (13)

Coombs, Mary Ella (17)

Cornwall, Amos (17)

Coslett, William (19)

Darke, Ann Smedley (63)

Darke, Frederick (64)

Davies, Catherine Ann Arthur (27)

Davies, Evan Arthur (infant)

Davies, John Arthur (2)

Davies , John T. (30)

Dean, Charles (32)

Dean, Charles Cope (2)

Dean, John Cope (8)

Dean, Joseph Cope (4)

Dean, Mary Cope (27)

Dixon, Hannah (55)

Duncan, Homer (46)

Dyer, James (Unknown)

Edgehill, James (21)

Ellis, George (30)

Ellis, Jamina Rose Wiggill (24)

Ellis, Jesse Wiggill (infant)

Ellis, John Daniel (5)

Ellis, William H. (3)

Evans, Benjamin Pearce (43)

Evans, Elizabeth (6)

Evans, Everina (4)

Evans, Martha George (39)

Fango, Gobo (6)

Foster, Hannah Warwick (45)

Foster, Joseph Elias (23)

Foster, Joyce Hillman (27)

Foster, Stephen (49)

Foster, Stephen Thomas (18)

Gampton, Elizabeth Ann Heath (19)

Gampton, William Henry (21)

Gates, Jacob (50)

Gillespie, Agnes (8)

Gillespie, Alexander (31)

Gillespie, Alexander (3)

Gillespie, Elizabeth (6)

Gillespie, Ellen (infant)

Gillespie, Mary (10)

Gillespie, Mary McKinley (32)

Gould, Ann Simpson (30)

Gould, Elizabeth Boyd (4)

Gould, Robert (29)

Gould, Robert Simpson (2)

Green, Thomas (Unknown)

Grey, Andrew (Unknown)

Gwynn, William (Unknown)

Hart, Emily (1)

Hart, Harriet (36)

Hart, Harriet Rebecca (11)

Hart, Joseph Hyrum (7)

Hart, Noah (3)

Hart, William (37)

Hastler, Betsy, jun (Unknown)

Hastler, Maria (Unknown)

Hastler, Sarah (Unknown)

Heaton, Jonathan, Jr. (37)

Hogg, Robert (46)

Howell, Ann (7)

Howell, James Parley (infant)

Howell, Louisa Thomas (39)

Howell, Margaret (3)

Howell, Martha Leah (17)

Howell, Richard (14)

Howell , William (41)

Hughes, William (Unknown)

Huntsman, Levi (Unknown)

Hutchinson, Robert Alexander (9)

Jamieson, William (22)

Jenkins, Ann (14)

Jenkins, Ann Davies (38)

Jenkins, David Hyrum (infant)

Jenkins, Evan (44)

Jenkins, Henry Evan (7)

Jenkins, John (16)

Jenkins, Julietta Amelia (5)

Jenkins, Margaret Coquella (3)

Jenkins, Mary Estella (3)

Jenkins, Moroni (12)

Jenkins, William Thomas (9)

Jessop, Thomas (20)

 

John, Annie Jane (infant)

John, David (28)

John, Mary Wride (29)

Jones, Daniel (Unknown)

Jones, David (Unknown)

Jones, David (36)

Jones, Elizabeth (24)

Jones, Ellen Williams (21)

Jones, Farner (Unknown)

Jones, James (Unknown)

Jones, John B. (Unknown)

Jones, Richard P. (Unknown)

Jones, Thomas (Unknown)

Jones, Thomas Rees (32)

Kingsman, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Lang, Ann Tull (29)

Lang, Benjamin (29)

Lang, Giles Benjamin (5)

Leiby, Alfred (Unknown)

Lewis, John (Unknown)

Llewellyn, John (Unknown)

Lockwood, Mary (22)

Luff, George Thomas (25)

Luff, Hannah Mary Dixon (25)

Luff, Harry (18)

Luff, Mary Ann (infant)

McDougall, Georgena (18)

McNiven, James Scott (13)

McNiven, Janette McNiven (34)

McNiven, Jessie (8)

McOmie, Elizabeth (infant)

McOmie, Janet (27)

McOmie, John Pringle (24)

McOmie, Margaret McDougal (22)

Meredith, Sarah J. (18)

Merrick, John (Unknown)

Miller, Daniel (Unknown)

Miller, William (Unknown)

Morgan, John (19)

Morgan, William (Unknown)

Odell, Ann Newman (41)

Odell, Annie Sarah (14)

Odell, George Thomas (12)

Odell, Thomas George (38)

Owens, Owen (Unknown)

Partington, Elizabeth Birchall (26)

Partington, John (26)

Penrose, Bertha (infant)

Penrose, Charles William (29)

Penrose, Ernest Stratford (3)

Penrose, Jessie Lucetta (2)

Penrose, Kate (1)

Penrose, Lucetta Stratford (27)

Perry , Mary (21)

Pitman, Mary Ann (14)

Price, Matilda (18)

Robinson, Joseph G. (39)

Robinson, Sarah Hutchinson (27)

Russell, Ann Jane (23)

Russell, Isabella Millican (17)

Russell, Mary Elizabeth, jun. (28)

Russell, Mary Walton (50)

Russell, Samuel (26)

Russell, Sarah Eliza (20)

Sharp, Henry (Unknown)

Simpson, Elizabeth (Unknown)

Smith, John (Unknown)

Smith, Mary (Unknown)

Smith, Samuel (28)

Steggell, Jonathan (27)

Stock, Frederick (10)

Stock, Kaziah Peck (36)

Stocks, Edward (38)

Stratford, Ann (18)

Stratford, Edwin (28)

Stratford, Edwin Alfred (4)

Stratford, Eliza Ann (2)

Stratford, Eliza Barwell (51)

Stratford, Emily (9)

Stratford, Jesse George (infant)

Stratford, Marianna Crabb (29)

Talbot, Albert Joseph (13)

Talbot, Charles Stewart (20)

Talbot, Edward William (10)

Talbot, Eliza (3)

Talbot, Hannah (17)

Talbot, Henry (50)

Talbot, Henry James (27)

Talbot, Hyrum Purcell (2)

Talbot, Livinia Ann Wall (24)

Talbot, Margaret Alice Wiggill (17)

Talbot, Richard Alfred (12)

Talbot, Robert Wall (infant)

Talbot, Ruth Sweetnam (44)

Talbot, Sarah (15)

Talbot, Stephen Barton (6)

Talbot, Susanna (7)

Talbot, Thomas Benjamin (23)

Talbot, Walter George (8)

 

Taylor, Elizabeth Bowyer (45)

Taylor, Elizabeth Jane (4)

Taylor, Frederick John (14)

Taylor, James (Unknown)

Taylor, Joseph (Unknown)

Taylor, Joshua (38)

Taylor, Louisa (3)

Thomas, David (26)

Turner, Amy Barber Seabrook (39)

Turner, Frederick (13)

Turner, John (53)

Wall, Robert William Wilson (19)

Walters, Martha (44)

Wanless, Mary O'Dell (21)

Wanless, Sarah Ellen (1)

Wanless, William (40)

Ware , Mary (17)

Watson, Janet (15)

Watson, William (18)

Western, Samuel (17)

Wiggill, Eli (50)

Wiggill, Frances Amelia (13)

Wiggill, Jeremiah Francis (22)

Wiggill, Joseph Elijah (7)

Wiggill, Priscilla Jane Talbot (19)

Wiggill, Rosanna Maria (14)

Wiggill, Susannah Bentley (47)

Williams, Elizabeth (59)

Williams, Elizabeth, jr. (18)

Williams, Emma (41)

Wood, Elizabeth (30)

Wride, Ann Davis (21)

Wride, Barry (27)

Wride, Hannah Selman (22)

Sources

 

Duncan, Homer, [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book."   

Duncan, Homer, to Brigham Young, 27 Aug. 1861, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 38, box 28, fd. 4.   

Duncan, Homer, to Brigham Young, 5 Aug. 1861, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 38, box 28, fd. 4.   

Duncan, Homer, Report of Elder Homer Duncan's mission to England 1861, fd. 2.
   
Source Locations

Jenkins, John, Autobiographical sketch, 1933, 1-2.   

John, David, Journals, 1856-1908, reel 1, vol. 1, 253-64.   

John, Mary Jane Wride, Autobiographical sketch, 79-80, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, vol. 1.   

Turner, Frederick, The History of Frederick Turner, 3-4.   

Wiggill, Eli, Autobiography, 1883, 466-85.   

Wiggill, Eli, Reminiscences, 39-41. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)   

Wiggill, Eli, [Autobiography], in An Enduring Legacy, 12 vols. [1978-89], 8:202-6.
   

 

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