Default wagon background image

Elisha Mallory Company (1860)

Departed
Fall 1860
Departed From
Carson City, Nevada
Arrived
On 1860 October 12
Vehicle Type
Wagon
Company Type
Independent Train
Company Direction
Eastbound

From the 17 October 1860 edition of the Deseret News:

...a company under the charge of Captain Elisha Mallory, of Weber County, numbering nineteen wagons and thirty-eight men, besides women and children, most of whom have stopped in northern settlements. 

From the obituary of Charlotte Nye:

A company of 20 wagons assembled at Carson City and under the leadership of Elisha Malory [Elisha Mallory] of Willow Creek, Box Elder County, traversed the Humboldt route to Utah, being harrassed [sic] by Indians the whole distance and reaching Ogden about the middle of October.

Read More