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George A. Smith/Dan Jones Company (1849)

 

 Departure:

14 July 1849

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

26-30 October 1849

Company Information:

370 or 447 individuals and 120 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). This company combined with the Ezra T. Benson company as they traveled close together.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Abbott, Abiel (14)
Abbott, Abigail (7)
Abbott, Abigail Smith (42)
Abbott, Charilla (20)
Abbott, Cynthia (9)
Abbott, Lydia (16)
Abbott, Myron (11)
Abbott, Phoebe Abigail (18)
Adshead, Thomas (21)
Allen, A. (35)
Allen, Alanson David (25)
Allen, Allenson (30)
Allen, Ann [or Eveline] (infant)
Allen, Gideon (74)
Allen, Lucy Alvord (20)
Allen, Philo (31)
Allen, Rachel Hand (72)
Alvard, Joseph (18)
Appleby, Augustin (17)
Appleby, Carlos S. (15)
Appleby, Joseph Smith (2)
Appleby, Marinda H. (infant)
Appleby, Martha Ann (13)
Appleby, Sarah Ann (7)
Appleby, Sarah B. (40)
Appleby, William Ivins (38)
Appleby, William P. (11)
Averett, Dorcas (3)
Averett, Elisha (39)
Averett, Elisha, Jr. (infant)
Averett, Sarah Jane Witt (19)
Berrett, Annie (14)
Berrett, Charles Henry (11)
Berrett, Leonora Hyet (7)
Berrett, Richard (9)
Berrett, Robert (51)
Berrett, Robert, Jr. (18)
Berrett, Samuel (1)
Bowen, Albert (23)
Bradford, Leonard (38)
Case, Alice (infant)
Case, Elizabeth (7)
Case, Gashum C. (33)
Case, James Hillman (9)
Case, John (15)
Case, Malinda Helman (11)
Case, Mary Jane (2)
Case, Susan [or Susannah] (32)
Case, William W. (5)
Cheney, Aaron (62)
Cheney, Elijah (63)
Cheney, Elliza Ann (infant)
Cheney, Ezekiel Wells (21)
Cheney, Lucy Elzada Hardy (20)
Cheney, Mehitable Wells (62)
Cheney, Sarah Griffith (58)
Clark, Elizabeth Thomas (23)
Clark, Isaac (43)
Clark, William (35)
Clarke, Mary (46)
Clarke, Mary H. (17)
Clarke, Ruth H. (12)
Clawson, Artemesia (3)
Clawson, Cornelia Brown (45)
Clawson, Cornelia E. (6)
Clawson, David (infant)
Clawson, Mary (22)
Clawson, Moroni (12)
Clawson, Moses (47)
Clawson, Moses (15)
Clawson, Sarah J. (10)
Clawson, William (23)
Daily, Phineas (20)

Daniels, Daniel (42)
Daniels, David (14)
Daniels, Mary (52)
Daniels, Thomas (18)
Davies, Mary Aubrey (25)
Davies, William (1)
Davies [or Davis], Elizabeth (23)
Davies [or Davis], Margaret (18)
Davis, Ann (20)
Davis, Daniel (18)
Davis, Diana (13)
Davis, Hugh (70)
Davis, Laura Jones (Unknown)
Davis, Mary (13)
Davis, Sarah (22)
Davis, Sarah Thomas (51)
Draper, Albert Edward (8)
Draper, Almon (3)
Draper, Elizabeth Amanda Melvina (1)
Draper, Elizabeth Staker (43)
Draper, Harriet (15)
Draper, Isaac Grant (3)
Draper, Mary Anne (1)
Draper, Mary Anne Manhardt (22)
Draper, Mary Jane (infant)
Draper, Moses (17)
Draper, Parley Pine (6)
Draper, William (42)
Draper, William Lathrop (11)
Eames, Nathaniel (14)
Edwards, Peter (12)
Evans, Charlotte (18)
Evans, Mary (18)
Gee, Lysander (30)
Gee, Orlando (10)
Gee, Rosalia (1)
Gee, Theresa Bowley (20)
Green, Ann (13)
Green, Charlotte (10)
Green, James (5)
Green, John Charles (infant)
Green, John Hyrum (48)
Green, Mary Elizabeth (1)
Green, Robert (7)
Green, Susannah Phillips (32)
Gripple, John (62)
Gripple, Mary (58)
Gripple, Mary Jane (13)
Gripple, Robert (24)
Hamblin, William Haynes (17)
Jeremy, Esther (3)
Jeremy, Hannah (7)
Jeremy, John (11)
Jeremy, Sarah Evans (35)
Jeremy, Thomas (35)
Jeremy, Thomas, Jr. (10)
John, Thomas (29)
Jones, Anne (24)
Jones, Claudia (infant)
Jones, Dan (37)
Jones, Jane Melling (31)
Jones, John (18)
Jones, John (30)
Jones, Ricy (18)
Lawson, John (44)
Leigh, Anne Morris (28)
Leigh, Anne or Anna (2)
Leigh, Daniel (33)
Leigh, John (11)
Leigh, Mary (5)
Lewis, Canaan (7)
Lewis, David (51)
Lewis, Eliza (9)
Lewis, Elizabeth Jones (37)
Lewis, John (14)
Lewis, Lewis (2)
Lewis, Sarah (6)
Lewis, Thomas (15)
Lewis, William (42)

Mathias, Ada (12)
Nash, David (2)
Nash, Eliza Morris (24)
Nash, Isaac Bartlett (25)
Newell, Lewis (17)
Owens, Cadwalader (24)
Owens, Margaret (20)
Owens, Owen (13)

Parry, Anne (27)
Parry, Caleb (25)
Parry, Catherine Vaughn (22)
Parry, Edward (5)
Parry, Eliza A. (Unknown)
Parry, John (60)
Patten, Joseph (16)
Patten, William (Unknown)
Peters, David (39)
Peters, Laura (7)
Peters, Laura Jones Davis (32)
Peters, Sarah (8)
Phillips, David (30)
Phillips, Mercy (32)
Phillips, Sarah (7)
Rees, Evan (49)
Roberts, Owen (20)
Simmons, Amanda Chipman (44)
Simmons, Anne (14)
Simmons, Horton A. (11)
Simmons, Ruth (3)
Simmons, Selah or Celia (17)
Simmons, William B. (50)
Smith, Bathsheba (5)
Smith, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler (27)
Smith, Charles Warren (infant)
Smith, George Albert (32)
Smith, George Albert (7)
Smith, Hannah Maria Libby (21)
Smith, John Henry (1)
Smith, Lois (15)
Smith, Lucy (32)
Smith, Peter (14)
Smith, Sarah Ann Libby (31)
Smith, Zilpha (31)
Stoddard, B. F. (Unknown)
Stoddart, Franklin (38)
Tanner, Myron (23)
Thomas, Ann Crosby (29)
Thomas, Anne (infant)
Thomas, Benjamin (29)
Thomas, Daniel (2)
Thomas, Eliza Jane Clark (21)
Thomas, Hannah Maria (infant)
Thomas, Letitia Davis (25)
Thomas, Margaret (23)
Thomas, Rees (31)
Thomas, Samuel (35)
Thomas, Sarah (3)
Thorn, Asael (41)
Thorn, William (17)
Weaver, Martha (13)
Weeks, Melinda (8)
Williams, Edward (36)
Williams, Mary (2)
Williams, Rice (44)
Williams, Samuel (48)
Williams, Sophia (25)

Sources

 

"The Last Train," Frontier Guardian, 25 July 1849, 2.

"The Mail Arrived from the Salt Lake," Frontier Guardian, 5 Sept. 1849, 2.

Abbott, Abigail Smith, Autobiography, 31. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)

Abbott, Abigail Smith, "History of Abigail Abbott," Nauvoo Journal, July 1991, 68-69.

Appleby, William I., [Journal], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 27 Oct. 1849, 1-23.

Appleby, William I., Autobiography and journal, 1848-1856, fd. 1.

Appleby, William I, [Journal], in "Church Emigration Book."

Berrett, Richard T., Autobiography of Richard T. Berrett [1954], 2.

Browning, Charilla Abbott, [Biography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 6:102.

Draper, William, Autobiography, 1881, 33.

Draper, William, Autobiography, 29-30.

Duncan, Chapman, Reminiscences, 1852-1874, 11a.

Fife, Phebe Abigail Abbott Brown, Autobiography.

Isaac Clark Emigrating Company, Journal, 1849 July-Oct.

Jeremy, Thomas Evans, Collection [ca. 1827-1966], reel 1, box 1, fd. 1.

Jones, Dan, "A Letter [October 12, 1849] from Capt. D. Jones to President W. Phillips," in Ronald D. Dennis, The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration [1987], 184-89.

Jones, Dan, "Letter [July 13, 1849] from Capt. Jones to President William Phillips," in Ronald D. Dennis, The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration [1987], 175-77.

Smith, Bathsheba W., [Autobiography], in Edward W. Tullidge, The Women of Mormondom [1877], 342-43.

Smith, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler, Journal, 1849 Jun-Oct, 23 p.

Smith, George A. and Ezra T. Benson, "Letter from G. A. Smith and E. T. Benson", Frontier Guardian, 19 Sept. 1849, 2.

Smith, George A. and Ezra T. Benson, [Letter to Orson Hyde, 5 Aug. 1849], Frontier Guardian, 19 Sept. 1849, 4.

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, "Letter from G. A. Smith," Frontier Guardian, 26 Dec. 1849, 2-3.

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, [Letter, 12 Aug. 1849], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 15 Nov. 1849, p. 346-48.

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, [Letter], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 12 Aug. 1849, 2-3.

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, [Letter], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 18 Oct. 1849, 1-4.

Smith, George A., Ezra T. Benson, and William I. Appleby, [Letter, 21 Aug. 1849], Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 15 Nov. 1849, 348-50.

Smith, George A., Ezra T. Benson, and William I. Appleby, [Letter], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 Aug. 1849, 1-2.

Smith, George A., Ezra T. Benson, and William I. Appleby, [Letter], in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5 Aug. 1849, 1.

Smith, Lucy Meserve, Autobiographical sketch, 1888-1890, 9-12.

Smith, Lucy Meserve, Papers, 1848-1892, 28-37.

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, [Letter], 18 Oct. 1849, in "Church Emigration Book."

Smith, George A. and William I. Appleby, [Letter], 18 Oct. 1849, in James A. Little, From Kirtland to Salt Lake City [1890], 209-13.

Tanner, Myron, Biography of Myron Tanner [1907], 13-15.

 

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