Abraham Helm (1813 - 1894) Profile

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Abraham Helm

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5th Company of 50 reports

5th Company of 50 reports, August 1855.

Knowlden, Geo[rge], [Report], in Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, General files 1849-1898, box 1, fd 6.



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Great Salt Lake City
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Elder Moses Thurston[,] President of the Company. George Knowlden, Clerk, Elder Phillip Gerns [Garn,] Captain of the 1st Ten. Elder Andrew Ferguson of the 2nd &amp; Elder Thomas Margetts of the 3rd



Elder Robert Wright[,] Sarge[a]nt of the Guard. John Bray Maiben, &lt;Chaplain&gt;[.] 1st 10 Names



President’s wagon



Moses Thurston, age 37, Carpenter



Willm. Brown, age 27, Boot Maker, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 2 Cows, 1 Calf, 2 guns, 2 pistols, 12 Powder, 8 Lead, 2 in family, 4 in wagon



Mary, age 51



Annie Leversidge [Liversedge], age 25, Drap[e] Maker



Phillip Gerns [Garn], age 36, Farmer, 5 wagons, 14 oxen, 5 Cows, 1 Calf, 9 Horses, 1 Dog, 3 Guns, 26 Powder, 6 Lead, 10 in family, 15 in wagon



Mary, age 36



Mahalah, age 15



Micah, age 13



Phillip, age 10



Samuel, age 8



Nathaniel, age 6



Elizebeth, age 4



Daniel, age 2



Mary, age 6 mo



Clark Baker, age 26, Engineer



Duncan Ferguson , age 19, Miner



Thos. Brooks Bell, age 42, Shoe Maker



John Amato [Arnold], age 25, Servent [servant]



Elizth. Galgallant [Gallant], age 22



Rich. Morgan age 42, Mason, 1 wagon, 2 oxen 1 Gun, 1 Powder, 2 Lead, 4 in family, 4 in wagon



Sarah Ann, age 28



George, age 7 [1]



Elizebeth Anna, age 1½



Abraham Helm, age 42, Farmer, 3 wagons, 4 oxen, 4 Cows, 0 calf, 6 Horses, 2 Gun, 1 pistol, 2 Powder, 5 Lead, 13 in family, 14 in wagon



Mary, age 42



Joseph, age 19



John, age 17



Bartrum, age 16



Susan Helm, age 13



Mary, age 13



Samuel, age 12



Caroline, age 10



Marshel, age 9



Andrew, age 5



Le[v]i, age 3



Shanna [Johanna], age 1



Anna Allsworth, age 24



Charles Tuckett, age 26, Whitener, 1 wagon, 5 oxen, 1 Cow, 2 Guns, 4 Powder, 10 Lead, 7 in family, 8 in wagon



Jane, age 61



Mary Ann, age 23



John, age 19



Joseph, age 15



Charles, age 2



John Henry, age 1



Anne Hampton, age 16



Second Ten



Andrew Ferguson, age 36, Miner, 1 wagon, 4 oxen 2, Cows, 1 Gun, 1 Powder, 1 Lead, 7 in family, 8 in wagon



Elizebeth, age 39



Agnes, age 22



Barbreo [Barbara], age 11



Elizebeth, age 8



Eli, age 6



William, age 4[;] Mr. Ferguson has another now added to his family, a boy



Willm. Wilkstonholm [Woostenholm], age 31, Color Maker



Robert Wright, age 39, Carpenter, 2 wagons, 2 oxen, 2 Cows, 1 Calf, 2 Horses, 1 Gun, 1 Pistol, 1 Powder, 3 Lead, 8 in family, 8 in wagon



Anne H., age 36



Joseph Henry, age 13



Sarah A[manda Wright]. Mandy, age 11



Robert James, age 7



Geo. Washington, age 5



William Franklin, age 2



Lydia Ann, age 5



James Pailing, age 32, Carpenter, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 1 dog, 1 Gun, 1 Pistol, 3 Powder, 10 Lead, 3 in family, 3 in wagon



Ann Elizebeth, age 30



Elizebeth Ann, age 9



John Bray Maiben, age 29, Commission &lt;travelling&gt; agent, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 2 Guns, 2 Pistols, 5 Powder, 6 Lead, 3 in family, 4 in wagon



Phebe, age 30



Eliza Richards, age 37



Willm. Barnett, age 28, Tanner



John Willm. Jenkins, age 34, Saddler, 1 Wagon, 4 oxen, 1 Cow, 2 Guns, 5 Powder, 40 Lead, 2 in family, 5 in wagon



Emma, age 31



James Robson, age 55, Currier



Eliza Ann Bunting, age 61



Georgiana Madison, age 15



Rich. Edward Danes [Davies], age 33, Carpenter, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 1 Pistol, 1 Powder, 1 lead, 4 in family, 5 in wagon



Kezia, age 38



Elizebeth Sarah, age 14



Ruth Wickens, age 28, Drap[e] Maker



Joseph Inchan, age 22, Ivory worker



John Robinson, age 31, Jobber, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 2 Guns, 3 pistols, 25 Powder, 30 lead, 4 in family, 8 in wagon



Ann, age 27



Ichozin [Jacosa Jane], age 3



Franklin, age 9 mo.



Chas. Bohnford, age 27 Miner



Thos. Peake, age 17



Willm. Horsley, age 12



Sarah Bradbridge [Broadbridge], age 20



John Wood, age 44, Preserver of birds, 2 wagons, 9 oxen, 4 Cows, 1 Calf, 1 Horse, 2 Guns, 3 pistols, 25 Powder, 30 Lead, 8 in family, 13 in wagon



Fanny, age 38



Fanny, age 13



Ellen, age 11



Aust, age 8



Jonathan David, age 6



Edward Augustine [Augustus], age 4



Oliver, age 1½



John Giles, 24, carpenter



Louisa, 26



Louisa 4



Oliver Thos., 6 mo.



John Rigbey, 22, Collier



George Williams, 41, butcher, 2 wagons, 8 oxen, 2 cows, 0 calves, 1 horse, 1 pig, 1 gun, 1 pistol, 2 powder, 3 lead, 3 in family, 5 in wagon



Susan, 41



Caroline [Williams or Vaughan], 11



Isaac White, 50, farmer



John, 21



 



3rd ten



Thos. Margett, 35, wheelright, 1 wagon, 9 oxen, 0 cows, 0 calves, 0 horses, 3 pigs, 3 guns, 2 pistols, 2 powders, 6 lead, 4 in family, 5 in wagon



John Sheffels [Sheffield], 32, bootmaker



Lilpah, 28



George Knowlden, 21, carver &amp; guilder



Charlotte Riley, 46



John Moore, 35 potter, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 0 cows, 0 calves, 0 horses, 2 pigs, 2 guns, 2 pistols, 3 powder, 8 lead, 5 in family, 5 in wagon



Jane, 40



Thomas Willms., 16



Sarah Ann, 13



James Henry, 9



Joseph Teal [Seal], 32, gardner, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 2 cows, 0 calves, 0 horses, 1 pig, 1 gun, 1 pistol, 20 powder, 30 lead, 2 in family, 5 in wagon



Mary Ann, 21



John Evans, 49, tailor



Elizabeth, 60



Samuel Howard, 16



Aaron Garlick, 34, Dress tender, 1 wagon, 4 oxen, 0 cows, 0 calves, 0 horses, 0 pigs, 0 guns, 1 pistol, 1 powder, 3 lead, 2 in family, 3 in wagon



Mary, 28



Samuel Robins, 10



John Stout, 32, grocer, 2 wagons, 6 oxen, 1 cow, 0 calves, 0 horses, 1 pigs, 1 gun, 2 pistols, 3 powder, 9 lead, 3 in family, 3 in wagon



Allice, 41



Maria Welsh, 7



Joseph Shaw, 41, weaver



 



Bear Creek 
August 22 1855



Dear Brother Bullock[,]



I am requested by the President to send you this list of the 5th Company of the Saints Emigration for fear you have not received a Correct account of the same I am Happy to say since our start up to the present time we have been in a prosperous Condition[.] Our Cattle, Wagons, &amp; all that we have seems to be under the Eye of the Almighty for we are getting along Firstrate. There has not been as yet &amp; we believe will not be one Single Death in the Camp. No not even an oz [ox.] I have sent this list to you as I do not know rightly who to send it too [to] &amp; if I have mistaken the person you will greatly Oblige me by Handing it over to the proper person that they may be made acquainted with the Necesary Information relative to the camp. We Started from Mormon Grove on the 3rd of July &amp; Camped all well at this joint [point] this morning[.] Hoping this will find you well &amp; all the Saints in the Mountains[.] Believe me Your Brother in the Covenant Geo’ Knowlden.



Clerk of the Company



N B: Our Company numbers.



33 wagons

Transcript for 5th Company of 50 reports, 1855 August 22, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862

5th Company of 50 reports.

Deseret News

Immigration List

"Immigration List", Deseret News, September 12, 1855.

FIRST COMPANY—John Hindley, Captain. 
Peter Burgess, David P Barnes, Miles Rosten [Rostron], Charles L Walker, George H Barnes, James Ashton, John Buckwalter, Henry S. Buckwalter, B Bunnell, James Bywater, James Barker, Zechariah Astell, Cyrus Averey, William Avery, William Beasley, J[oseph] Brown, Josiah Brown, Peter A Boyl[e], John W Coward, John Clegg, D[uncan] S Casper, John Coomish, William Coomish, Jacob B Carr, James Crancher [Cranshaw], David Duncan, Henry Dinwoody, Samuel Glascen [Glasgow], James Gibbons, William Gough, George Greenwood, John Hindley, Abraham Lawer, Darius Longee, Daved Louden, John Knowles, William Knowles, William Knox, Daniel Lunn, Willard G McMullen, Henry McMullen, Edward A Miles, J W Myers, Henry Misanger, John H Picknell, Edwin Pearse [Pierce], Josiah Pearse, Priam Pearse, Henry Perry, W A Perry, Allen T Riley, Robert Redford, George Sant, B N Stanford, Enos Sto[o]key, John Singleton, David Stromple [Streeple], Thomas Swindlehurst, Ephraim Turner, John Thornley, Robert Thornley, George S Williams, Thomas Williams, E Williams, George Water[s], Jefferson Wright, Arthur Wright, Asa Wright, John Worley, Weber Worley, Henry L Worley 
67 women and 66 children. 46 wagons, 226 oxen 54 cows, 14 horses and 4 mules.



SECOND COMPANY—Noah T. Guyman, Captain. 
Jacob F Secrist (dead), Osmon M Duel, Minnie Wagner, John Ethrington 4, John Pugh 4, Ann Haslop 3, Mary Ann Thorne, John Mewey 4, John Lang 2, James Jordan 6, Thomas G Stayner 3, Henry Randall, Edmund Ellis, Peter Horrocks 4, John Prescott, John Chisnall, Henry H Morgon, William Kershaw, James Domville 2, Samuel Ackerly 2, James Prescott 6, U M Dougal 3 [18], Joseph Lyon, Daniel Horrock (died) 5, Williams Thomas, Charles Santh [Smith], Noah T Guyman, Ralph Blanch 3, Robert Telford 2, Edward Kendall 3, William Kendall 3, James Mather 6, Williams Grundy 2, George Ogleby 8, Peter Furling [Furlong] 3, Edward Falconer (4 died) 8, James Welch (1 died) 6, Thomas Morgan (1 died) 7



DANES 
Erick G M Hougan [Hogan], Johan Tralsen [Trulsen] 3, C[hristian] Christianson, S Halvoorsen 3, J Sandersen 2, G[under] Ericksen, N[iels] A Mauritzen 3, H[enrik] Ericksen 4, H[ans] Christensen 5, H[ans P.] Larsen, M[arie] Poulsen 3, E Ot[t]esen, N[iels] Winergren [Widergren] 4, J. Christensen, Simon A Rase 3, Christine Jensen, H[ans] J Johansen 7, Alexander Dahl 2, Anders Monsen, Rasmus Brun 4, B[oletta] Johnsen 4, Peter Nielsen 4, Lars Tofte 3, Peter Andersen 5, Peter Staffensen 4, S[amuel] Biarnesen 2, E G Hansen 4, Niles Petersen, Nicolai Dorius 2, Ingri Jensen 2, Martin Brun 5, M Nielsen 2, C Petersen, Jorgen Hansen 2, Jorgen Rasmusen, Jens Poulsen, Anton Christensen 7, O K Beck 2, Lars Olsen 3, Lars Franzen 2, M[arie] F Hageman 2, Jens Jensen 5, A[nne] E Ericksen 2, J[oran] L Lund 2, Jens Skrader 4, H. P Larsen, A[nne] M Nielsen, Hans Jensen, Karen Andersen 8, J C Sorensen 8, A[nna] C Brawand, A C Larsen, Hans Ottesen 5, R[asmus] Nielsen 4, A[nders] C Andersen 5, J Christensen 3, O[le] P Larsen, Christian Anderson 7, J[ohan] Eilertsen 6, P[eter] Jespersen 3, L[ars] P[eter] Lund 6, N[iels] H Beck 3, Ola Andersen 7, Niels Capsen 2, H[ans] Petersen 9, L[ars] C Kjer 5, J Nielsen 2, Niels Jensen 2, Niels Johansen 2, J C Petersen 2, J[orgen] J Svane 5, Hans Hansen 5, Jens Petersen 6, E C Ottesen, R N Beck 4, N Clemenselt [Niels Clemensen] 2, M Christensen 3, P[eter] O Hansen, H O Lundblad 5, Peter Hausen [Hansen] 4, A[xel] Fullgren 3, Jens Jensen 3 
58 wagons, 231 oxen and 100 cows.



FOURTH COMPANY—Richard Ballantyne, Captain. 
Wm Glover, John Bushby, Thomas Bargat [Barratt] 3, Elizabeth Boory, George Bill [Bell] 3, Anna Bander, Timothy Adams, Sarah A Bane, James Bush 8, Robert Baxter 6, Esther Birch, Barry [Mary] Beeby, William Beard 7, George Butcher, Am [Ann] Bird 5, Casper Bruner [Bryner], William Bishop 3, George Bourne, Joseph Birch 5, Charles Crawford 3, Anna Crouther [Crowther], Daniel Caveen 5, John Clark, Henry Clegg 2, George Cushing 3, Francis H Congriffe 2, John Chance, Mary Clemens, Ann Cole, Jane Clayton 4, Elizabeth Daviess, Emma Dewey, James Davis 2, Elizabeth Dimant, Griffith Davis, Emma Davis, Ann Finch, Sarah Franks 2, Trena [Verena] Fisher, Charles Ford, Thomas Floyd, Mark Fletcher 3, James Gardener 2, Arnold Goodliffe, John Grimatt [Grimmett] 8, Mary Greene, William Hapley 5, Mary Harper 4, William Horrinkson [Hawkinson]3, Anna Hurst, Elias Hunt 2, David Hilton 3, Charles Hogg[e] 3, James Hadley 2, Emma Hodges, Charles Hartley 5, Harriet Hindford 2, Phillip Hewett 2, William Hunt 4, David Hutchinson 6, James Hardman 5, Jacob Hindermann, Jacob Hook 8, Ann Jenkins, William Julian 3, Thomas Joice [Joyce] 4, Phillip Jones, James Inshaw, Margaret Johnson 3, Jane Johnson, Isaac Knowles 5, Thomas Knowlden 2, Josiah Knowlden, Charles Kidgel 2, William Kent, Mary A. Loveless, Mary Lockhead, Samuel Langfield, Amelia Longford 2, Charles Livingston 8, Samuel Mullmer [Mulliner] 3, Charles Monkcom 2, Mary Morris, Bertha Mallinax 2, Hector McQuarry, William McFarlane [McFarland] 9, James Moore 2, Angus McDonald 2, Sarah Matthews 3, George Mayer, John Mottese, Samuel Martin 6, Mary Murs, James McCracken, Elizabeth Nish 3, Samuel Ostler 2, Thomas Orr 4, Andrew Odnutt [Ordnatt], Robert Nish 2, Caroline Opterholda, George Neasham, Thomas Palmer 3, Mary Pearce, Susanna Preston, George Pickering, Mary Porter, William Pitt, Josiah Feat [Peat] 2, Mary Prosser, Shaderick Peters 2, Elizabeth Pinder 2, Jane Pilkington, John Pickett 2, Frederick Rushton 6, Mary Reid, Charles Ramsden 4, James Robson 5, Joseph Race 2, William Race 5, Jane Saunders 2, Thomas Sutherland, Ellen Stevens, Thomas Stanger 4, John Story 3, Thomas Stevenson 3, John E Sheldon 3, Daniel Skelding 4, James Stevenson 2, William H Sterrock 6, Michael Saunders, George Simonds [Simmons] 5, Elizabeth Saunders, Mary A Spencer 3, John Thom[p]son, William Thom[p]son 6, Robert Thom[p]son 2, Bonford Thimbeby, Otho Teasdale, George Thom[p]son, Thomas Taysom 4, Sarah Williamson, Thomas Wilson, Harriet Wendford, John Warwood 5, Jane Walker, William West 7, Samuel Ware 6, Thomas B. Wadman, Elizabeth White, James Warlton [Worlton], Sarah A Wickle 2, James Wall 2, James Westwood 6, John Vest 6, Catharine Vealey [Vraley], Marion Young 3 
402 persons; 45 wagons; 220 oxen; 48 cows; 3 horses.



FIFTH COMPANY—Moses Thurston, Captain. 
Williams Brown 2, Clark Baker, John Arnold, Thomas Brooks Bell, Annie Allsworth, William Burnett, Eliza Ann Bunting 2, Sarah Br[o]adbridge, James Aikin, Charles Butterfield, John Brownlow, Charles Bohnford, Richard E Davies 3, John Evans, Hudrew [Andrew] Ferguson 7, Philip Gems 10, Duncan Ferguson, Elizabeth Galgalland, John Giles 4, Aaron Garlick 3, Abraham Helm 13, Annie Hampton, Williams Horsley, Samuel Howard, Francis Hawkes 2, John W Jenkins 2, Joseph Inchin [Inchan] 2, George Knowlden, Thomas Lee 2, Annie Liversidge, Richard Morgan 4, John B Maiben 2, Thomas Margetts, John Moore 5, Thomas Norn [Horn] 7, Thomas Peake, James Pailing 3, John Robinson 4, James Robson, John Rigby, Charlotte Riley, Eliza Richards, John Sheffield 2, Joseph Seale 2, John Stout 3, Joseph Shaw 1, Charles Tuckett 7, John Tedd [Todd], Robert Wright 8, Ruth Wickens, John Wood 8, George Williams 3, Isaac White 2, Francis White 7, William Wilkstonholme [Woostenholme], Jesse Youngblood 
33 wagons, 234 oxen, 28 cows and 12 horses.



SIXTH COMPANY-P. E. F. Co.—C. A. Harper, Captain. 
John Allen 2, A S Burton, Dominie Budrer, Jeanette Bland, Alfred J Atkinson 7, George Burton, Thomas Burton 3, Ann Bradley, Emma Burdsley, Rachel Brown, Samuel Burt 2, Jane Couthanche, Daniel Cadorett, Dominico Bordrane, Alexander Contderwood [Calderwood], Samuel Crawford 4, Hamel Chapman, Agustus Dunin [or Danin], Joseph Dunkley 2, -------- [James Phillip] Dufresne, William Davies 4, Rees Davies 7, John Edwards 3, Abraham Enou[f], James Endriel, William Ferne 4, Susan Dolbel 2, John Lee Gresley, Daniel Graves 9, Henry Goddard 2, William Gorriunge [Gorringe] 4, Cornelius Green 2, George George 3, William Harden 3, Elizabeth Howard, Sarah Howler [Howlet], Louisa Hulse, Ann Hughes 6, Mary Hiles [Hites], Samuel Handrum [Handron], Elizabeth Jenn [Jean], Henry Jones 4, Rosser Jenkins 2, Henry J Jones, William Jones 3, William T Kilburn 4, Samuel Langlois 7, Henry Lucas [Clucas] 5, Mary Ann Lapworth, John D Malan 9, D Meiklejohn, John Memnott [Memmott] 5, John N Morriss 3, Sinah Pugh, Francis Romreal, Mary Robertson, Emma Roe 4, Andrew Robertson, Ann Reese, John Reese 3, William Richards 3, Ephraim Rollins [Rowland] 4, Francis D L George [De St. Joer] 4, John La Sener [Lesueur] 7, James Shanks 5, Robert Sneder, James Squires 2, Mary Ann Williams, Rhoda White 4, Edwin Watts 2, Ann Taylor 3, Mary Parker, Joseph Perkins 3, Jane Price 2, Jeremiah Price 7, Thomas Painter 5, W Thomas 4, Henry Powell, Jenkin Williams, Salina Williams, Thomas Williams, William Vest 3, Josiah Young 8, Robert Toring 4, Catharine White 2



INDEPENDENTS (so called) 
Charles A Harper, Lucy L Brown, Jane Brown, Ann Brewerton, Kitty Bumpton [Brampton], G W Bramwell 3, Martha Barton, Margaret Griffiths, William Hanson [Harden] 2, Morgan Jones, Mary Harris, Jane Jackson, William James 4, Thomas Jeremy 3, Elizabeth Jones, Henry Liversidge 4, Jane C Martin, Dwight Martin 2, John Marrel 2, John Parkin 5, Caroline Pill 2, Joseph Perry, William Rust, William Rowan 3, Joseph D Reynolds, David Reese 2, Williams Reese 6, Edward Sutherland, Daniel Thomas, Harriet Taylor, Thomas Turner, David Williams, Sariah Williams, Thomas Williams 8 
39 wagons, 220 oxen, 30 cows, 1 horse and 1 mule.



SEVENTH COMPANY—Isaac Allred, Captain.Henry Ashcroft 2, U Anderson, E[dmund] C Brand 2, J Bond, G Brown, Thomas Brian, Fred Branson, R[obert] Drummond, J M Coombs, Thomas Colborn, G Gurstang, J[ames] Galland, Mary A Griffin, Samuel Hardy, James Harper, Nephi Hampton 4, L Hambley 3, Samuel Hambley, Edley F Hampton, Caleb Hartley, S[ylvester] Low, Amos Lower, Elizabeth Hardy, Thomas Morgan 2, N Morris, F[rancis] Mainwaring, W V Morris, James Monroe 4, J Nelson 2, Isaac Richards, James Pace, G Robinson, J[oseph] Redfurn, T Stolworthy 2, William Stewart, James C[alvin] Sly, J Timmins, Enoch Trenter, Enoch Richew [Richens], William Warner 2, L Woolman 2, J Walker, Ann Webb, James Wright 
42 men, 13 women, 7 children, 38 wagons, 234 oxen, 1 horse and 1 mule.

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