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William Seeley Company (1868)

 

 Departure:

August 1, 1868

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

August 29, 1868

Company Information:

272 individuals and 39 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Laramie, Wyoming.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Adams, Eliza A.
Amussen, Carl Christian 43
Batley, Nicholas
Bishop, George 53
Burnside, Elizabeth Prentice 41

Burnside, Helen Infant
Burnside, Jean 4
Burnside, John 15
Burnside, John Mason 41
Burnside, Marion Elizabeth 10
Burnside, Thomas J. 1
Burnside, William 17
Burrill, John 51
Campbell, Annie 15
Campbell, Elizabeth Burnside 18
Campbell, Elizabeth Smith 45
Campbell, James 21
Campbell, Jeanne 3
Campbell, Martha 6
Campbell, Mary 19
Campbell, Thomas Infant
Campbell, Thomas 49
Coombe, Louisa 17
Coombe, Mary 50
Coombe, William 63
Cooper, Henry 54
Curtis, Theodore 53
Draper, Charles 33
Draper, John Walter 7
Draper, Mary A. 38
Dummer, Charles 52
Dummer, Charles, Jr. 32
Dummer, Elizabeth Sarah 8
Dummer, Elizabeth Sarah Hyde 34
Dummer, Elizabeth Vincent 59
Dummer, Emma Jane 4
Dummer, George Henry 2
Dummer, William Henry 31
Dummer, William Walter 6
Ellis, Edmund 46
Ellis, Julia Amanda 11
Ellis, Mary Ann 12
Ellis, Sarah Grace Barnaby 36
Ellis, William Moroni 7
Fawcett, William
Fife, Alexander 26
Fife, Janet 6 17 March 1862
Fife, Janet Hamilton McCulloch 29
Fife, Margaret 3 1866
Fife, Samuel Infant 1868
Firth, Matthew 48
Ford, Elizabeth Nicholas 37
Ford, John 2
Ford, Robert 37
Ford, Robert Henry 17
Ford, Thomas 4
Ford, William 11
Fyfe, James 10
Fyfe, Janet 51
Fyfe, John 50
Fyfe, Robert 12
Fyfe, Thomas 16
Goble, George
Griffiths, William 30


 

 

Hall, Daniel
Harker, Robert
Hill, Andrew 57
Hill, Elizabeth Cherry 57
Hill, Joseph 1
Horne, Thomas
Hunter, Harriet Hayden 24
Hunter, James 36
Hunter, Jemima Leslie 6
Hunter, Margaret 9
Hunter, Mary Robertson 35
Hunter, Richard 24
Hunter, Robert 13
Hurst, Phillip
Johnson, Thomas
Jones, Brigham Evans 14
Jones, Frederick Evans 17
Jones, Isaac J. 64
Jones, Mary Evans 56
Kennett, Mary 44
Kerr, David A. 31
Kerr, Ellen Etherly 2
Kerr, Margaret Russell 30
Kerr, Walter 6

Larson, John
Laws, Benjamin 43
Laws, Mary Hart 38
Laws, Robert 15
Laws, William Hart 17
Lethbridge, Peter 17
Loveridge, Ledru 20
Lunn, Eliza 12
Lunn, Fred 4
Lunn, Harriott Cookson 36
Lunn, John 38
Lunn, John William 10
Lunn, Martha Ann 14
Lunn, Sarah 17
Mead, John
Montgomery, James
Morgan, Elizabeth 11
Morgan, Elizabeth Thomas 54
Morgan, Thomas 53
Nicholas, Elizabeth
Owens, Ann Treharne 63
Owens, David 60
Owens, David Jr. 25
Owens, Jane 28
Owens, William 18
Paramore, George 40
Paramore, Mary Lees 23
Pearson, Elizabeth
Pearson, William
Pembroke, Herbert 15
Pembroke, James Earl 72
Pembroke, Mary Ann 12
Pembroke, Phoebe Jane 18
Pembroke, Sarah Day 53
Perkins, Benjamin 24
Petersen, Ingerborg Marie 31
Petterson, Maren Fredrikka 23
Pettit, Brower 40
Pettit, Lucinda Abrams 31
Pickering, Ellen Elizabeth Harper 50
Pickering, Franklin Harper 10
Pickering, Simeon 50
Pickering, Willard Richards 14
Preston, Louisa Coe 41
Preston, Samuel 42
Preston, Thomas 3
Preston, William 8
Russell, David 57
Russell, James 28
Russell, Margaret 30
Russell, Margaret Strong 61
Russell, William 32

 

Salisbury, Joseph (31)
Sargent, Amos 14
Sargent, Elizabeth Farrow 50
Sargent, Esther 17
Sargent, John 50
Sargent, John Henry Infant
Sargent, Nephi 15
Sargent, Sarah Elizabeth Spriggs 18
Sargent, William 24
Scott, Thomas
Scott, William H.
Seeley, William Stewart 56
Skinner, Brigham Heber 13
Skinner, Elizabeth Ann 5
Skinner, Emily Eugenia 1
Skinner, George 16
Skinner, Harriet Eliza 3
Skinner, Hyrum 17
Skinner, Jane Smith 37
Skinner, John 46
Skinner, John Alexander 11
Skinner, Mary Jane 7
Skinner, William Henry 9
Smith, Amelia A. 17
Smith, Eliza 3
Smith, Henry
Smith, Joseph Alastor 15
Smith, Lucy Ann 10
Smith, Mary Ann Mole 45
Smith, Mary Jane 19
Smith, William 46
Smith, William George 7
Smithfield, Thomas
Sorensen, Martin
Sorensen, William
Steward, Samuel 20
Stewart, James 18
Stiff, Alice Elizabeth Watson 25
Stiff, James W. 18
Street, Alexander 19
Teasdale, John
Thomas, David Sparrey 5
Thomas, Elizabeth 4
Thomas, George Sparrey 10
Thomas, Hugh Williams 38
Thomas, Mary Ann Sparrey 33
Thomas, Sarah 8
Tibble, Emma 12
Tibble, Frances Grunsel 40
Tibble, Louise 10
Tibble, Mary Ann 14
Tibble, Sarah Jane 6
Tibble, Thomas 42
Turner, Bartle, Jr. 24
Turner, Bartle, Sr. 61
Turner, Joseph 39
Turner, Sarah Page 63
Underwood, Alice Cecelia 10
Underwood, Cecelia Baldry 32
Underwood, Earnest Thomas 6
Underwood, Ellen Kendrick Hill 22
Underwood, Franklin Theodore 7
Underwood, Fredrick Charles 3
Underwood, George William 4
Underwood, Harry Arthur 3
Underwood, James Samuel 1
Underwood, James Thomas 29
Underwood, Louise Elizabeth 1
Underwood, William Charles Alfred 11
Underwood, William Joseph 31
Van Schoonhoven (Spencer), Gilbert Henry 40
Watkins, Ann 22
Watkins, Christiana Walters 66
Watkins, Thomas 59
Wildman, Addie Jane 4
Wildman, Edward 31
Wildman, Jane Baxter 28
Wildman, John Baxter Infant
Wildman, Margaret Ann 2
Wildman, Susan Elizabeth 6
Wiscombe, Alice 13
Wiscombe, Elizabeth Maud 6
Wiscombe, Elizabeth Pink 23
Wiscombe, Fanny 16
Wiscombe, George Alfred 27
Wiscombe, Jane Caroline Pollard 44
Wiscombe, John Edward 10
Wiscombe, Mary Ann 21
Wiscombe, Walter John 19
Wiscombe, William Willard 5
Woodman, George
Wright, Jesse 32

Sources

 

"Another Train In," Deseret Evening News, 29 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City


"Captain Seeley's Train," Deseret Evening News, 22 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"Died," Deseret Evening News, 19 Aug. 1868, 2.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"Immigration of 1868," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 28 Sep. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"Note of Thanks," Deseret Evening News, 31 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"Starting of Trains," Deseret Evening News, 13 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"The Emigration," Deseret Evening News, 3 Aug. 1868, 2.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"The Immigration, Etc," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 6 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"The Immigration," Deseret Evening News, 27 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

"The Immigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 31 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

“Come In,” Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 3 Sep. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

“Immigration,” Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 27 Aug. 1868, 3.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

“Immigration,” Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 27 Aug. 1868.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Christensen, Maren Fredrikka Petterson, Autobiographical sketch, 3.
Trail Excerpt
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Deseret Evening News, 19 Aug. 1868, p. 2
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Haddock, Edith Parker and Dorothy Hardy Matthews, History of Bear Lake Pioneers [1968], 478-79.
Source Location
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Lyman, Albert Robison, An Appreciation and a Biographical Sketch of Benjamin Perkins, 1936, 5-7.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Simmons, Mary C., Autobiographical sketch, 1-2.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

Street, Alexander, Journals and reminiscences, 1895–1898 and 1903, fd. 2, vol. 2, 11p.
Source Location
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

 

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