Curtis Edwin Bolton, Jr.

The Bolton family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1848 with the Brigham Young Company.  The family included: Curtis Edwin and Rebecca Bunker and their children Ann Booth, Emma Smith, and Edwin Young; Curtis Edwin Jr., a son of Curtis Sr.’s from a previous marriage; and Curtis Sr.’s second wife, Ellen Coil Merritt.    Curtis Sr. served as company clerk.

His year of death is confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone in California.