Elisha Franklin Edwards

Elisha Franklin initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Heber C. Kimball Company in 1848 as a teamster. 

In 1849, Elisha traveled again to the Salt Lake Valley with the Howard Egan Company according to Journal History.   

The rest of Elisha Franklin’s family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Robert Wimmer Company in 1852.  The family consisted of Elisha and his current wife, Jane Gould, and Elisha's children, Edward Erwin, James Peas, Harrison Martin, and Mariah.  Jane Gould died en route.

Also traveling in the Robert Wimmer Company was Elisha’s brother, Caleb Gibbons, his wife, Cynthia Shepahrd, and their children, Jane Ellettice and Caleb Elisha.