Carlos Newton Gillett

Birth Date
On 1842 February 21 (Born)
Death Date
On 1880 April 21 (Died)
Gender
Male

In 1850, the Gilletts lived in Neversink, Sullivan County, New York, according to the 1850 census.  The Gillett family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the William Field Company in 1854.  The Gillett family included Horace and Sarah Collins Moore, and their children, John Acley, Granville, Collins Moore, Carlos Newton, and Sarah Elizabeth and her family.  Horace, a captain of ten, died en route from cholera, on 26 June, according to Newton Tuttle’s journal.

In the 1850 federal census of Neversink, Sullivan County, New York he is "Charles N. Gillet."  At the time of the 1856 Utah Territorial census he was living in the Salt Lake City 9th ward.

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