Benjamin Franklin Johnson, Jr.

The Johnson family included Benjamin Franklin Johnson and his wife Melissa Bloomfield, their children Benjamin Franklin Jr., Melissa, Julia Dedamia, and Esther Melita, Benjamin's 2nd wife Flora Clarinda Gleason and their daughter Huetta Clarinda, and Benjamin's 3rd wife Mary Ann Hale and their daughter Julia Ann.  Also traveling in the company was Benjamin’s brother Joel and his family.

In 1861, Benjamin crossed the plains again, this time sent out by the Santaquin Ward as an out-and-back teamster.