James Sawyer Holman

James initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 with the Charles C. Rich Company as a Captain of Ten, as indicated in Journal History on 21 June 1847. 

Then in 1848, the Holman family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Company in 1848.  The family included James Sawyer and his wife, Naomi Roxania LeBaron, and their children, Harriet Naomi, James Alonzo, Sarah Melissa, Susan Adaline, Sanford, and Silas William. 

His nephew, John Greenleaf Holman and his family traveled in the James Lake Company in 1850.