Hans Nielsen Tuft

The Tuft family sailed to America in 1863 on the ship B. S. Kimball.  The ship manifest shows their surname as "Toft."

Evidence from emigration, genealogical, and church (Perpetual Emigrating Fund) records proves the Toft family traveled to Utah in 1863. He remarried in Utah in April 1864, prior to the arrival of the next season's emigration, proving that he had to have come in 1863.In some sources his surname is spelled "Toft."