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5th handcart company contained 575 individuals, 145 handcarts, and 8 wagons were in this company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Iowa City, Iowa.
Company Departed from Iowa City, Iowa
1856 July 28
Edward Martin Called as Captain
1856 July 28 – November 30 See Pioneers
Roles
Captain
Date Details
Started On 1856 July 28
Joined Company
Ended On 1856 November 30
Company Arrived
Company Arrived at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
1856 November 30
Sources
Pioneer
Pioneer
Albert Jones notes, circa 1906
Autobiographical accounts by Beaver residents, circa 1879
Bleak, James G. to John Moore
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Cache Valley historical material, circa 1955
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Clegg, Margaret Ann Griffiths, Autobiographical sketch
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Clegg, Margaret Ann Griffiths, Autobiography [ca. 1907], 3-4
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Condie, Gibson, Reminiscences and diary, 1865-1910, 42-43
- Condie, Gibson, Reminiscences and diary, 1865-1910, 42-43.
Crossroads: Utah Crossroads quarterly newsletter
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Read Transcript - "Life sketch of Charlotte Mee Beal", Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963.
Read Transcript - "Louisa Mellor Clark, reminiscences", Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963.
Read Transcript - "Eliza Staker letter to Spencer Clawson, 2 July 1897", Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963.
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Deseret Evening News
Deseret News
Durham, Thomas, Journal 1854-1871, 15-16
- Durham, Thomas, Journal 1854-1871, 15-16.
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Elizabeth H. Kingsford autobiographical sketch, undated
Elizabeth W. [Sermon] Camm letter, San Francisco, California, to My Dear Children
"Emigrants Perishing on the Plains," Zanesville Gazette
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"Emigrants Perishing on the Plains--The Way They Bury Them," Cleveland Plain Dealer
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"Emigration to Utah," The Mormon
- "Emigration to Utah," The Mormon, 13 September 1856.
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"Ephraim K. Hanks' Narrative," in Andrew Jenson, "Church Emigration," Contributor 14, 5
Felt, N. H., "Correspondence from Bishop N. H. Felt," The Mormon
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Goodaker, Lydia Franklin, Autobiography, [ca. 1927], 6-7
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Handcart Stories
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Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914
Heart Throbs of the West
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Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008
Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956
Housley, George Frederick, [Reminiscences], in Life histories of George Frederick Housley and Maria Christina Jacobsen Housley
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Housley, George, Account, 1856
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Hunter, Lola Simmons, History of Joseph Marcellus Simmons
- Hunter, Lola Simmons, History of Joseph Marcellus Simmons.
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John Jaques collection, 1846-1961
John W. Southwell autobiographical sketch
Jones, Albert, Autobiography, 28-41, in Albert Jones, Diaries
- Jones, Albert, Autobiography, 28-41, in Albert Jones, Diaries.
Josiah Rogerson, Preface to Martin's Handcart Company Narrative
Kirkman, John. Sketch of the Life of Mary Lawson Kirkman
"Latest from Utah. Death of an Eminent Mormon Saint. Hand-Cart Trains in a Wretched Condition," New York Semi-Weekly Tribune
- "Latest from Utah. Death of an Eminent Mormon Saint. Hand-Cart Trains in a Wretched Condition," New York Semi-Weekly Tribune, 27 February 1857.
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Library of Congress collection of Mormon diaries, 1935-1938
Loader, Patience, [Reminiscences], in Kenneth W. Godfrey, Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill Mulvay Derr, ed., Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 [1982], 224-41
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Loynd, James, The Martin Handcart Company, 1926
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Mattinson, Robert, Reminiscences, in Frances Rushton Hutchens, Life stories of my ancestors 1996, 1-3
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Millennial Star
"Mormonism: As illustrated in a lecture by Thomas Harris, late an Elder in the Mormon Church," Alton Weekly Courier
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Reese, James, to Bro. Taylor
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Rhead, Edward Henry, Autobiographical sketch, in 27th Quorum, Biographies, 1850-1858
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Rhead, Josiah, [Excerpts from record book], in Edward H. Rhead, Journal and record book, 4
Robert T. Burton autobiography, undated
Robert T. Burton diaries, 1856-1907
Salt Lake Telegram
Samuel Openshaw diary
Sessions, Sarah Crossley. Autobiographical Sketch
Wadsworth, Joseph Warren, [Autobiography], in Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 [1979], 46
- Wadsworth, Joseph Warren, [Autobiography], in Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 [1979], 46.
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Wasatch Wave
Webster, Francis, Reminiscences [ca. 1848-1881], 9
- Webster, Francis, Reminiscences [ca. 1848-1881], 9.
William Barnes autobiographical sketch, circa 1890
[Report on the Rescue of the Martin Company], in "History of Brigham Young,"
- [Report on the Rescue of the Martin Company], in "History of Brigham Young,", 11 November 1856.
[Springfield] Daily Illinois State Register
- [Springfield] Daily Illinois State Register, 28 January 1857.
- [Springfield] Daily Illinois State Register, 28 February 1857.
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