William Empey Company (1854)
Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Church Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 15 July 1854
- Departed From
- Westport, Missouri
- Arrival
- 24 October 1854
- Captain
- William Adam Empey
- Number In Company
- 69
About 43 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Westport, Missouri.
- "Arrivals, Immigration, &c.," Deseret News [Weekly], 31 August 1854, 3.
- "Immigration," St. Louis Luminary , 2 Dec. 1854, 6.
- "Immigration--Goods," Deseret News [Weekly], 26 Oct. 1854, 3.
- "Immigration, Oct. 3," Deseret News, 5 Oct. 1854, 2.
- "Latest from Utah," St. Louis Luminary , 2 Dec. 1854, 6.
- "Mrs. Margaret Wayman Answers Death's Call," Deseret Evening News, 12 October 1916, 5. Found in Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1896-2001 July, 1910-1919, 1916 October.
- Peter Sinclair journal, 1853-1854, 167-270.
- Pratt, Orson, to Brigham Young, 29 June 1854, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 54, box 41, fd. 2.
| Buttars, Betheah | 3 | 25 June 1851 | 12 February 1880 |
| Buttars, David | 31 | 2 December 1822 | 23 November 1911 |
| Buttars, Margaret | 32 | 1 April 1822 | 10 August 1863 |
| Buttars, Margery Meek | 4 | 16 September 1849 | 7 April 1908 |
| Butterworth, Betty | 24 | 10 September 1829 | 15 July 1854 |
| Butterworth, Edmund | 28 | 15 January 1826 | 10 August 1903 |
| Butterworth, John Fielding | 2 | 18 December 1852 | 1 September 1926 |
| Butterworth, Mary | Infant | 12 May 1854 | 1854 |
| Curtis, Dorr Purdy | 35 | 21 January 1819 | 8 November 1904 |
| Davies, David Woodwell | 33 | 30 April 1821 | 20 March 1864 |
| Davies, Mary | 23 | 18 March 1831 | 12 November 1897 |
| Davis, George | 20 | 8 December 1833 | 14 June 1903 |
| Davis, Margaret Caroline | Infant | 1 July 1854 | 10 July 1854 |
| Davis, Mary Ann | 20 | 10 December 1833 | 2 July 1905 |
| Empey, William Adam | 46 | 4 July 1808 | 19 August 1890 |
| Finlayson, David | 32 | 1822 | Unknown |
| Finlayson, Margaret | 24 | 29 October 1829 | 11 October 1916 |
| Gillies, Ann | 20 | 22 October 1833 | 8 March 1901 |
| Gillies, Ebenezer | 34 | 16 November 1819 | 24 April 1883 |
| Gillions, John | 28 | 13 March 1826 | 27 March 1911 |
| Gillions, Mary | 14 | 7 August 1839 | 11 October 1854 |
| Gillions, Sarah | 22 | 22 March 1832 | 24 September 1854 |
| Glenn, Alexander | 17 | 24 October 1836 | 31 March 1924 |
| Glenn, Elizabeth | 22 | 26 May 1832 | 26 September 1908 |
| Glenn, James Stuart | 5 | 5 June 1849 | 20 November 1919 |
| Glenn, Jonathan | Infant | 6 September 1854 | 2 December 1854 |
| Glenn, Marian | 2 | 26 May 1852 | 7 March 1938 |
| Glenn, Walter | 31 | 10 October 1822 | 27 September 1909 |
| Green, Benjamin | 39 | 24 July 1814 | 1 February 1896 |
| Green, James | 16 | 21 November 1837 | 1 August 1924 |
| Green, William | 14 | 12 February 1840 | 14 July 1915 |
| Greenhalgh, Peter | 24 | 1 March 1830 | 12 June 1924 |
| Greenhalgh, Sarah | 26 | 27 November 1827 | 14 January 1922 |
| Gurney, William | 19 | 8 August 1834 | 25 March 1905 |
| Horrocks, Catherine Sarah | 19 | 19 November 1834 | 27 October 1915 |
| Horrocks, Samuel | 20 | 7 July 1834 | 4 February 1911 |
| Jenkins, Elizabeth | 38 | 12 January 1816 | 18 November 1881 |
| Jenkins, James | 36 | 24 October 1817 | 6 March 1904 |
| Jenkins, John | 8 | 27 May 1846 | 1 July 1930 |
| Jenkins, Mary Jane | 10 | 25 June 1844 | 22 October 1933 |
| Jenkins, William | 5 | 7 October 1848 | 5 February 1920 |
| Johnston, Cecelia | 55 | 20 July 1798 | 17 December 1886 |
| Johnston, Hugh | 54 | 9 January 1800 | 29 September 1854 |
| Johnston, James | 17 | 1 November 1836 | 25 September 1903 |
| Johnston, William | 14 | 16 September 1839 | 2 August 1915 |
| Marsh, Albert | 12 | 5 May 1842 | 22 February 1919 |
| McKenzie, David | 20 | 27 December 1833 | 10 March 1912 |
| Monk, Charles | 22 | 25 January 1832 | 31 March 1920 |
| Monk, Emma | 27 | 16 February 1827 | 16 February 1922 |
| Morgan, Susan | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Nash, Catherine | 40 | 25 July 1813 | Unknown |
| Nash, Ephraim | 16 | 20 April 1838 | 9 June 1910 |
| Nash, Isaac | 10 | October 1843 | About 1862 |
| Nash, Worthy | 18 | 27 June 1836 | Unknown |
| Nield, John | 20 | 23 February 1834 | 14 December 1913 |
| Nield, Luke | 57 | 30 October 1796 | 23 July 1869 |
| Nield, Sarah | 20 | 19 July 1833 | 10 June 1901 |
| Pidcock, Hannah | 21 | 11 September 1832 | 20 January 1898 |
| Pidcock, William Hazelgrove | 22 | 18 January 1832 | 27 November 1906 |
| Quayle, Elizabeth | 24 | 23 February 1830 | 24 September 1863 |
| Sinclair, Peter | 22 | 27 February 1832 | 15 September 1899 |
| Stott, Alice | 17 | 20 October 1836 | 1 October 1877 |
| Stuart, Robina | 15 | 6 July 1838 | 26 January 1872 |
| Taylor, Harriet Sadie | 49 | 24 November 1804 | 15 June 1885 |
| Taylor, John | 31 | 9 April 1823 | 8 November 1904 |
| Taylor, Robert G. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Thomson, George | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Thomson, [Sister] | Unknown | Unknown | 4 October 1854 |
| Wayman, Emmanuel | 26 | 31 March 1828 | 9 January 1908 |