Charles A. Harper Company (1855)

Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Church Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 25 July 1855
- Departed From
- Mormon Grove, Kansas
- Arrival
- 28 October 1855
- Captain
- Charles Alfred Harper Sr.
- Number In Company
- 326
305 individuals and 39 wagons were in the company when it began its journey 25 July from the outfitting post at Mormon Grove, Kansas (Near Atchison). The company departed 25-31 July and arrived in Salt Lake 28-31 October 1855.
View Summary- 6th Company of 50 report, 1855, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
- "Arrivals," Deseret News, 31 October 1855, 269.
- Ballantyne, Richard, [Letter to Erastus Snow], St. Louis Luminary, 28 July 1855, 142.
- Bassett, Charles H., "July 24th at Mormon Grove," Deseret News, 26 Sep. 1855, 228.
- Charles H. Bassett, "Correspondence," St. Louis Luminary, 1 September 1855, 162.
- “Condensed statistical report of Mormon Emigration from Mormon Grove, 1855 September 1.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 43, file 6)
- De St. Joer, Francis, History of Pioneer Francis De St Joer. Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
- Erastus Snow, "Letter from Prest. E. Snow," St. Louis Luminary, 10 November 1855, 199.
- Erastus Snow, "Our Correspondence," Deseret News, 5 September 1855, 8.
- Farley, Emily Pauline Malan, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake , 26 vols., 19:27-28.
- Farley, Madeline Malan, "Autobiographical Sketch of Madeline Malan Farley," Pioneer , May-June 1993, 25.
- George A. Smith, "Letter from George A. Smith," St. Louis Luminary, 15 December 1855, 207.
- "Gleanings [excerpts]," St. Louis Luminary, 10 November 1855, 198.
- Harper, C. A., to Brigham Young, 14 Sept. 1855, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 33, box 24, fd. 4.
- "Immigration," Deseret News, 24 October 1855, 260.
- Ivie, Martha Ann Memmott, Autobiographical sketch, in Stella H. Day, comp., Builders of Early Millard: Biographies of Pioneers of Millard County, 1850 to 1875 [1979], 380.
- "John L. Edwards Writes Reminiscences [sic]," Box Elder News , 27 Jan. 1916, 7.
- Louis Alphonse Bertrand, Memoirs of a Mormon translated by Gaston Chappuis (1960), 146-55.
- Malan, Stephen, “Stephen Malan Autobiography and Family Record,” 14-15.
- Matthew Rowan autobiography and journals, circa 1848-1863.
- Milo Andrus, "Correspondence," St. Louis Luminary, 8 September 1855, 166.
- Perkins, Joseph Thomas, Autobiography [ca.1878], 102-4.
- Rees, Joseph Alexander. A Biography of Joseph A. Rees.
- Romriell, Charles Abram, "The Life of Charles Abram Romriell," [3-4].
- Rowan, Matthew, Reminiscences and journal, 1853-1864, 56.
- Smith, George A., "From Our Utah Correspondent," The Mormon, 29 Dec. 1855, 2.
- Thomas E. Jeremy collection, 1827-1931, Journal (volume 3), 1854 September-1858 April.
Allan, Agnes | 33 | 11 November 1821 | 1 April 1909 |
Allan, John | 31 | 21 September 1823 | 27 April 1908 |
Atkinson, Alfred Henry | 6 | 4 February 1849 | 7 February 1916 |
Atkinson, Alfred John | 28 | 29 December 1826 | 11 November 1875 |
Atkinson, Ann | 65 | 8 August 1790 | 20 March 1874 |
Atkinson, Ann | 28 | 28 January 1827 | 11 August 1895 |
Atkinson, Eliza Ann | 33 | 5 February 1822 | 11 July 1884 |
Atkinson, Eliza Jane | 3 | 22 July 1852 | 26 February 1934 |
Atkinson, Emily Ann | Infant | 26 January 1855 | 31 March 1924 |
Bailey, John | 12 | 6 January 1843 | 15 June 1921 |
Bailey, Lydia | 44 | 10 December 1810 | 20 April 1890 |
Bailey, William | 15 | 27 December 1839 | 4 March 1916 |
Bardsley, Ellen | 33 | 23 January 1822 | 5 November 1908 |
Bardsley, William | Infant | 8 June 1855 | 11 February 1936 |
Barton, George | 11 | 16 August 1843 | 15 October 1912 |
Barton, Martha | 18 | 23 January 1837 | 11 August 1928 |
Barton, Martha | 49 | 5 July 1805 | 28 February 1867 |
Barton, Mary Ann | 7 | 16 August 1848 | 25 March 1879 |
Barton, Thomas | 55 | 27 May 1800 | 11 November 1866 |
Benham, Fanny Mary Anne | 15 | 26 April 1840 | 19 August 1903 |
Bertrand, Louis Alphonse Auguste | 47 | 8 January 1808 | 21 March 1875 |
Bishop, Sinah | 23 | 14 December 1831 | 24 December 1887 |
Bland, Jeanette | 24 | 7 August 1832 | Unknown |
Bodero, Domenico | 29 | 1 April 1826 | 10 August 1919 |
Bowen, Rachel | 22 | About 1833 | Unknown |
Bradley, Ann | 49 | About 1806 | Unknown |
Brampton, Kitty | 22 | 4 February 1833 | 20 October 1878 |
Bramwell, George Walter | 32 | 8 May 1823 | 3 February 1899 |
Bramwell, George Walter | 1 | 19 December 1853 | 29 April 1931 |
Bramwell, Mary Ann | 30 | 5 April 1825 | 27 April 1917 |
Brewerton, Ann | 59 | 11 September 1795 | 29 January 1859 |
Brown, Jane Lancaster | 22 | 4 October 1832 | 2 October 1900 |
Brown, Lucy Lucetta | 22 | 3 December 1832 | 28 November 1869 |
Burt, Catherine | 20 | About 1835 | Unknown |
Burt, Samuel | 23 | About 1832 | Unknown |
Burton, A. L. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Burton, George | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Cadoret, Daniel | 61 | 11 December 1793 | About 1855 |
Cadoret, Mary | 25 | 31 March 1830 | 10 May 1882 |
Calderwood, Alexander | 18 | 5 October 1836 | 1 December 1883 |
Chapman, Hamel | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Clucas, Elizabeth | 11 | 2 September 1843 | 18 April 1925 |
Clucas, Elizabeth | 50 | 31 July 1805 | 5 March 1887 |
Clucas, Henry | 50 | 12 May 1805 | 17 October 1883 |
Clucas, Henry Lancelot | 17 | 28 March 1838 | 30 November 1857 |
Clucas, Lucy | 7 | 19 October 1845 | 30 May 1903 |
Coutanche, Jane Elizabeth | 24 | 1 June 1831 | 14 March 1864 |
Crawford, Mary Ann | 2 | 10 December 1852 | 26 January 1896 |
Crawford, Mary Ann | 34 | 24 June 1821 | 28 December 1894 |
Crawford, Samuel | 4 | 5 September 1850 | 1 August 1920 |
Crawford, Samuel Sinclair | 26 | 4 January 1829 | 22 November 1900 |
Danin, Augustus | 54 | 7 October 1800 | 26 October 1869 |
Danin, Nancy | 50 | 30 September 1804 | 26 November 1886 |
Davies, Anne Elizabeth | 19 | 29 March 1836 | 19 May 1879 |
Davies, Catherine | 2 | 14 April 1853 | 26 February 1867 |
Davies, Elizabeth | 24 | 21 June 1831 | 13 November 1910 |
Davies, Grace E. | Infant | 1855 | 28 May 1942 |
Davies, John R. | 7 | 3 July 1848 | 6 October 1925 |
Davies, Margaret | 40 | 14 September 1814 | 8 December 1859 |
Davies, Mary Jane | 10 | 14 September 1844 | 13 September 1916 |
Davies, Rees | 5 | 14 May 1850 | 14 December 1884 |
Davies, Rees William | 41 | 17 April 1814 | 4 August 1860 |
Davies, William W. | 27 | 9 August 1833 | 26 November 1906 |
De St. Jeor, Elizabeth Ann | 10 | 4 September 1844 | 20 June 1918 |
De St. Jeor, Elizabeth Jordan | 32 | 11 August 1822 | 18 March 1890 |
De St. Jeor, Francis | 33 | 11 July 1822 | 27 December 1912 |
De St. Jeor, Francis John | 8 | 26 November 1846 | 30 May 1908 |
De St. Jeor, Louisa | 6 | About 1849 | Unknown |
Dolbel, Eliza Adelaide | 21 | 26 February 1834 | 15 September 1908 |
Dolbel, Susannah | 55 | 10 January 1800 | January 1862 |
Du Fresne, James Phillip | 55 | 22 July 1800 | 14 October 1858 |
Dunkley, Joseph | 30 | 6 August 1824 | 23 June 1901 |
Dunkley, Margaret | 32 | 27 January 1823 | 12 May 1873 |
Edwards, John Lodwick | 49 | 4 May 1805 | 11 May 1877 |
Edwards, John Lodwick | 17 | 2 July 1838 | 15 December 1920 |
Endriel, James | 25 | About 1829 | Unknown |
Endriel, Sarah | 20 | About 1834 | Unknown |
Endriel, William W. | 1 | About 1853 | Unknown |
Esnouf, Abraham | 50 | 2 September 1804 | About 1880 |
Esnouf, Elizabeth | 23 | 7 April 1832 | 8 February 1905 |
Esnouf, Thomas | 19 | 4 April 1836 | Unknown |
Fenn, Frederick | 6 | 15 June 1849 | 31 December 1920 |
Fenn, Sarah | 13 | 3 August 1842 | 15 March 1888 |
Fenn, William | 51 | 9 October 1803 | 7 July 1860 |
Franham, Caroline | 34 | 1 January 1821 | 30 January 1894 |
Gates, Maria | 28 | 2 March 1827 | 12 October 1863 |
George, Elizabeth | 45 | 24 July 1810 | 28 April 1873 |
George, George | 40 | About 1815 | 14 October 1866 |
George, Mary Ann | 11 | 12 November 1843 | 26 June 1932 |
Goddard, Hannah | 32 | 20 June 1823 | 29 September 1887 |
Goddard, Henry | 34 | 16 February 1821 | 9 April 1901 |
Gorringe, Emily | 1 | 2 April 1854 | 31 May 1928 |
Gorringe, Fanny | 25 | 27 January 1829 | 20 December 1908 |
Gorringe, William Lambert | 2 | 13 February 1852 | 9 June 1879 |
Gorringe, William Osborne Lambert | 30 | 18 October 1824 | 31 October 1892 |
Graves, Charlotte Maud | 7 | 1 March 1847 | 22 December 1892 |
Graves, Daniel | 49 | 19 April 1806 | 17 October 1892 |
Graves, Daniel Robert | 9 | 17 April 1845 | 26 April 1871 |
Graves, Ebenezer | Infant | 28 September 1855 | 2 October 1856 |
Graves, Edward Henry | 13 | 12 August 1841 | 9 June 1923 |
Graves, Elizabeth Sarah | 12 | 24 June 1843 | 6 August 1855 |
Graves, Elizabeth Ursula Durmont | 29 | 24 July 1828 | 5 October 1903 |
Graves, Jane Eliza | 22 | 21 September 1832 | 1 May 1929 |
Graves, Joseph Nephi | 5 | 16 January 1849 | 10 October 1912 |
Graves, Mary | 37 | 27 March 1817 | 19 April 1905 |
Green, Ann | 26 | About 1830 | Unknown |
Green, Cornelius | 29 | 11 February 1826 | 19 January 1892 |
Griffiths, Margaret | 16 | About 1839 | Unknown |
Guydon, Julia | 2 | 6 May 1853 | 28 June 1942 |
Guydon, Mary Catherine | 26 | 10 July 1829 | 6 January 1883 |
Halse, Louisa | 60 | About 1795 | Unknown |
Halse, Samuel William | 23 | 23 January 1832 | 11 February 1888 |
Hammond, Jane | 17 | 23 February 1838 | 4 February 1909 |
Hanson, Emily | 13 | About 1842 | Unknown |
Hanson, William | 49 | About 1806 | Unknown |
Hardy, Ann | 17 | 3 June 1838 | 6 March 1921 |
Hardy, Elizabeth | 21 | 20 January 1834 | 4 January 1922 |
Hardy, William Wilson | 13 | 22 February 1842 | 10 March 1905 |
Harper, Charles Alfred | 38 | 27 January 1817 | 24 April 1900 |
Harris, Mary | 16 | About 1839 | Unknown |
Hendry, [Brother] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Henriod, Samuel | 13 | 2 May 1842 | 30 April 1859 |
Hites, Mary | 45 | About 1810 | Unknown |
Hocquard, Elizabeth | 28 | 8 June 1827 | 14 February 1917 |
Howard, Mary Elizabeth | 28 | 5 August 1827 | 1 September 1903 |
Howlet, John | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Hubbard, Mary | 20 | 30 May 1835 | 12 June 1893 |
Hughes, Ann | 51 | 1 May 1803 | 14 September 1862 |
Hughes, Elizabeth | 15 | 9 November 1839 | 13 July 1873 |
Hughes, Frances | 14 | 7 June 1841 | September 1879 |
Hughes, James | 16 | 10 December 1838 | 3 February 1912 |
Hughes, Martha Ann | 12 | 1 May 1843 | 18 May 1907 |
Hughes, Mary | 18 | 2 April 1836 | 1 March 1879 |
James, Mary | 5 | May 1850 | 27 January 1916 |
James, Rachel | 45 | About 1810 | 27 February 1887 |
James, William | 37 | 24 September 1817 | March 1903 |
James, William | 8 | 14 October 1846 | 24 January 1923 |
Jean, Elizabeth Marie | 53 | 12 May 1802 | 26 December 1874 |
Jean, Julia | 14 | 28 September 1840 | 6 May 1900 |
Jenkins, Ann | 19 | 1 August 1837 | 15 February 1924 |
Jenkins, Margaret | 52 | About 1803 | Before 1860 |
Jenkins, Rosser | 53 | About 1802 | Before 1860 |
Jeremy, David | 33 | 14 November 1821 | 3 April 1885 |
Jeremy, Mary | 27 | 2 August 1827 | 25 October 1905 |
Jeremy, Thomas Evans | 40 | 11 July 1815 | 17 April 1891 |
Jones, Althea Caroline | 3 | 3 September 1851 | 26 June 1942 |
Jones, Ann | 31 | 27 October 1823 | 3 February 1901 |
Jones, Caroline | 29 | 4 December 1825 | 13 October 1883 |
Jones, Eliza Jane | Infant | 10 August 1855 | 9 June 1940 |
Jones, Elizabeth | 20 | About 1835 | Unknown |
Jones, Elizabeth Ellen | Infant | 8 August 1855 | 28 December 1930 |
Jones, Henry J. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Jones, Henry Lane | 31 | 25 February 1824 | 3 July 1904 |
Jones, Margaret | 57 | 27 July 1797 | 25 November 1879 |
Jones, Morgan E. | 29 | 12 October 1825 | 7 July 1897 |
Jones, Susannah | 67 | 26 April 1788 | 8 October 1868 |
Jones, William J. | 30 | 23 March 1825 | 22 January 1909 |
Kilbourn, Alfred Heber | 1 | About 1854 | About 1855 |
Kilbourn, Annie Sarah | 2 | 14 December 1852 | 2 October 1916 |
Kilbourn, Walter William | 6 | About 1849 | About 1856 |
Kilbourn, William Thomas | 29 | 6 February 1826 | 12 March 1873 |
Langlois, Elizabeth Ann | 9 | 3 March 1846 | 27 June 1877 |
Langlois, George | 17 | 31 July 1837 | 29 August 1911 |
Langlois, Harriet | 5 | 5 February 1850 | 17 April 1937 |
Langlois, Marie Anne | 44 | 27 July 1810 | 16 December 1900 |
Langlois, Nancy | 21 | 11 November 1833 | 28 September 1923 |
Langlois, Samuel | 58 | 23 December 1796 | 26 November 1875 |
Lapworth, Mary Ann | 30 | 10 July 1825 | Unknown |
Le Sueur, Caroline | 41 | 11 June 1814 | 1 October 1898 |
Le Sueur, Mary Ann Julia | 16 | 23 September 1838 | 8 January 1912 |
LeGresley, Eliza Francois | 68 | About 1787 | 1872 |
LeGresley, John | 64 | October 1790 | November 1855 |
LeSueur, Caroline Mary Turner | 8 | 27 January 1847 | 2 July 1878 |
LeSueur, Harriet Ellen | 5 | 18 June 1850 | 7 May 1933 |
LeSueur, Jane Caroline | 12 | 7 October 1842 | 23 December 1926 |
LeSueur, John | 42 | 9 July 1813 | 24 November 1862 |
LeSueur, John Taylor | 2 | 4 December 1852 | 29 November 1945 |
LeSueur, Margarett | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Liversidge, Henry | 29 | 29 July 1825 | 23 August 1874 |
Liversidge, Susannah | 64 | 19 November 1791 | 6 March 1883 |
Malan, Bartholomew | 7 | 22 April 1848 | 7 November 1913 |
Malan, Jeanne Dinah | 10 | 20 September 1844 | 10 April 1899 |
Malan, John Daniel | 50 | 20 November 1804 | 9 May 1886 |
Malan, Madeleine | 15 | 25 September 1839 | 2 December 1919 |
Malan, Pauline | 49 | 4 August 1805 | 23 July 1864 |
Malan, Pauline Amelie | 15 | 25 September 1839 | 23 January 1926 |
Malan, Stephen | 20 | 8 January 1835 | 15 August 1926 |
Marett, John | 33 | 8 September 1821 | 2 March 1869 |
Marett, Mary Elizabeth | 36 | 22 January 1819 | 30 June 1891 |
Martin, Dwight R. | 3 | 19 February 1852 | 5 March 1932 |
Martin, Etta Adell | 2 | 25 March 1853 | 15 June 1937 |
Martin, Jane Catherine | 20 | 21 March 1835 | 20 February 1926 |
Meiklejohn, Jane | 10 | 13 February 1845 | 22 April 1907 |
Meiklejohn, Jeanette | 14 | 13 April 1841 | 26 March 1905 |
Meiklejohn, Mary | 12 | 29 July 1842 | 3 October 1902 |
Meiklejohn, Mary | 43 | 28 April 1812 | 4 November 1878 |
Meiklejohn, Robert | 43 | 12 March 1812 | 7 May 1895 |
Memmott, John | 32 | 2 February 1823 | 29 October 1866 |
Memmott, Julia | 36 | 11 June 1819 | 26 August 1898 |
Memmott, Martha Ann | 6 | 16 October 1848 | 30 November 1924 |
Memmott, Sarah | 8 | 18 January 1847 | 27 December 1921 |
Memmott, Thomas William | 5 | 21 July 1850 | 8 March 1913 |
Middlemas, Jane | 15 | 24 January 1840 | 23 November 1902 |
Morris, Isabella Newland | 1 | 5 July 1854 | 14 March 1925 |
Morris, John Newland | 32 | 16 February 1823 | 27 January 1905 |
Morris, Phoebe | 26 | 10 November 1828 | 24 August 1891 |
Nuttall, Martha | 16 | 8 October 1838 | 11 September 1911 |
Painter, Seth | 17 | 4 January 1838 | 14 September 1911 |
Painter, Thomas | 41 | 20 December 1813 | 24 May 1883 |
Parker, Mary | 14 | 8 February 1841 | 24 December 1903 |
Parkin, Charles A. | 8 | 24 April 1847 | 2 March 1924 |
Parkin, Edward H. | 6 | About 1849 | Unknown |
Parkin, John | 30 | 18 August 1824 | Unknown |
Parkin, Kate A. | 4 | 15 November 1850 | March 1908 |
Parkin, Mary Althea Nixon | 30 | 4 December 1824 | 25 July 1891 |
Perkins, Joseph Thomas | 34 | 24 September 1820 | 6 June 1889 |
Perkins, Margaret | 21 | 22 December 1833 | 10 January 1915 |
Perkins, Thomas Martin | Infant | 9 June 1854 | 23 September 1928 |
Perry, Joseph | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Pill, Mary | 29 | 26 March 1826 | 28 April 1908 |
Powell, Henry I. | 32 | About 1823 | Unknown |
Price, Isaac Rees | 9 | 27 June 1846 | 12 September 1892 |
Price, Jane | 23 | 2 April 1832 | 2 May 1896 |
Price, Jane | 46 | 28 January 1809 | 7 December 1904 |
Price, Jemima | 6 | 18 February 1849 | 2 December 1938 |
Price, Jeremiah | 51 | 13 August 1804 | 19 March 1860 |
Price, John Rees | 10 | 27 July 1844 | 30 May 1900 |
Price, Martha Ann | 2 | 12 December 1852 | 25 March 1943 |
Price, Richard A. | 3 | 9 September 1851 | 25 January 1856 |
Prior, Gwenlillian Jeremiah | 17 | 5 July 1838 | 20 September 1910 |
Rees, David Leyshon | 18 | 5 January 1837 | 2 December 1916 |
Rees, Elizabeth Covington | 20 | 3 January 1835 | November 1905 |
Rees, Elizabeth Leyshon | 53 | 25 December 1801 | 16 April 1887 |
Rees, John Laramie | Infant | September 1855 | 28 March 1937 |
Rees, Joseph Alexander | 14 | 14 August 1840 | 21 March 1922 |
Rees, William | 22 | 5 July 1833 | 7 April 1885 |
Rees, William | 53 | About 1802 | 19 March 1875 |
Reese, Ann | 30 | About 1825 | Unknown |
Reese, Ann | 66 | 1789 | October 1868 |
Reese, David | 25 | 12 June 1830 | 13 February 1910 |
Reese, Edward | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Reese, Jane | 6 | About 1849 | Unknown |
Reese, John | 33 | About 1822 | Unknown |
Reese, Martha | 21 | 12 November 1833 | 21 May 1923 |
Reynolds, Joseph Darnbrough | 22 | 3 February 1833 | 2 March 1913 |
Richards, John | 15 | 25 June 1840 | 13 January 1913 |
Richards, William | 57 | 25 February 1798 | About 1885 |
Roberts, Sarah | 24 | 19 April 1831 | 16 November 1907 |
Robertson, Andrew | 56 | 12 December 1799 | 17 October 1864 |
Robertson, Mary | 20 | 3 July 1835 | 13 December 1889 |
Roe, Charles John | 4 | 6 August 1850 | 27 October 1920 |
Roe, Emma | 13 | 5 June 1842 | 10 March 1897 |
Roe, Isabella Jane | 7 | 16 August 1847 | 17 April 1902 |
Roe, Mary | 9 | 19 February 1846 | 6 March 1928 |
Romrell, Charles Abraham | 12 | 18 May 1843 | 28 April 1932 |
Romrell, Francis | 55 | 13 August 1799 | 9 October 1875 |
Romrell, Mary | 51 | 29 April 1804 | 11 May 1866 |
Romrell, Sophia Jeanne | 7 | 19 March 1848 | 1 October 1906 |
Rowan, Ammon | 1 | 21 April 1854 | 12 October 1871 |
Rowan, Jane | 28 | 31 January 1827 | 8 January 1862 |
Rowan, Matthew | 29 | 17 April 1826 | 7 January 1866 |
Rowland, Edward | 4 | 19 September 1851 | 10 October 1926 |
Rowland, Ephraim | 31 | 21 July 1824 | 16 September 1895 |
Rowland, Margaret | 30 | 16 August 1824 | 14 December 1906 |
Rowland, Mary Ann | 2 | July 1853 | 15 September 1922 |
Rust, William Walker | 46 | 14 August 1808 | 18 September 1894 |
Shanks, Isabella | 6 | 8 July 1849 | 22 May 1908 |
Shanks, Isabella | 47 | 23 April 1808 | 22 January 1866 |
Shanks, James | 45 | 21 August 1809 | 24 July 1887 |
Shanks, Marion Leckie | 17 | 19 July 1838 | 21 April 1890 |
Shanks, William | 15 | 10 February 1840 | 1913 |
Sneddon, Robert Bald | 27 | 23 April 1828 | 23 January 1889 |
Squires, James | 44 | 29 July 1810 | Unknown |
Squires, Jane Ann Wenley | 50 | 2 April 1805 | Unknown |
Sutherland, Edward | 32 | About 1823 | Unknown |
Taylor, Ann | 54 | 7 November 1800 | 26 March 1896 |
Taylor, Harriet | 18 | 23 August 1836 | 2 April 1907 |
Taylor, Maria | 10 | 17 January 1845 | Unknown |
Taylor, Martha | 11 | 5 August 1843 | 25 November 1924 |
Thomas, Ann | 4 | 8 July 1851 | Unknown |
Thomas, Daniel Francis | 29 | 13 April 1826 | 30 July 1890 |
Thomas, Margaret Davis | 1 | 10 August 1853 | 30 March 1881 |
Thomas, Mary Ann | 21 | 8 October 1833 | About 1879 |
Thomas, Mary Margaret | 22 | 22 September 1832 | 22 February 1864 |
Thomas, William Watkin | 27 | 8 July 1828 | 5 September 1879 |
Toring, Robert | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Turner, Thomas | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Vest, Hannah Jane | 25 | 10 September 1830 | 20 February 1916 |
Vest, John | 2 | 22 September 1852 | 17 January 1943 |
Vest, William | 25 | 26 June 1830 | 6 May 1916 |
Walters, Sarah | 24 | 19 February 1831 | 11 May 1924 |
Watts, Edwin | 44 | 8 October 1810 | 1 January 1885 |
Watts, Mary | 53 | 27 November 1801 | 3 July 1880 |
White, Agnes M. | 3 | About 1852 | Unknown |
White, Catharine | 24 | About 1831 | Unknown |
White, Hannah | 10 | 6 November 1844 | 7 March 1868 |
White, Rhoda | 43 | 25 August 1811 | 4 June 1890 |
White, Sarah | 16 | 8 December 1838 | 8 October 1919 |
White, William | 14 | 31 March 1841 | 17 October 1917 |
Williams, Celina Lewis | 55 | 1 March 1803 | 19 August 1887 |
Williams, David | 27 | About 1828 | Unknown |
Williams, Elizabeth | 18 | 25 February 1837 | 21 November 1911 |
Williams, Elizabeth Rowland | 20 | 20 March 1835 | 29 April 1899 |
Williams, John Parry | 22 | 17 September 1832 | 16 November 1891 |
Williams, John Rowland | 52 | 16 December 1802 | 25 August 1884 |
Williams, Mary Ann | 24 | About 1831 | Unknown |
Williams, Mary Jane | 54 | 19 January 1801 | 22 April 1862 |
Williams, Phoebe Lloyd | 5 | 23 August 1849 | 15 April 1918 |
Williams, Sarah [or Sarah Ann] | 26 | About 1829 | Unknown |
Williams, Thomas | 2 | 21 October 1852 | 6 January 1928 |
Williams, Thomas | 17 | About 1838 | Unknown |
Williams, Thomas | 52 | About 1803 | Unknown |
Williams, Thomas Lloyd | 29 | 31 March 1826 | 24 February 1889 |
Williams, William Jenkins | 27 | 29 April 1828 | 17 February 1884 |
Young, Andrew Henry | 1 | 17 May 1854 | 18 October 1924 |
Young, Brigham | 1 | About 1854 | Unknown |
Young, Elizabeth Esther | 32 | 17 November 1822 | 15 March 1912 |
Young, Elizabeth Jane | 10 | 13 June 1845 | 6 March 1939 |
Young, Emma | 2 | About 1853 | Unknown |
Young, Josias Richard | 36 | 10 June 1819 | 15 January 1892 |
Young, Josias Richard | 3 | 27 June 1852 | 14 December 1935 |
Young, Louisa Sarah | 6 | 11 March 1849 | 14 May 1921 |
Young, Robert | 42 | About 1813 | Unknown |
Young, Susanna Olivia | 8 | 22 January 1847 | 14 June 1929 |
Young, William | 4 | About 1851 | Unknown |
Young, William John | 11 | 5 March 1844 | 27 March 1903 |
Captain Charles Harper rightly called his overland emigrant company "a mixed multitude from many nations"; it included French, English, Welsh, and Italians. Some came from Jersey, an island 15 miles off the coast of Normandy, France. Leaving their homeland they traveled to Liverpool, England, via Dublin, Ireland, then sailed for America on the Chimborazo. After 5 weeks, the ship docked at Philadelphia, and the travelers boarded rail cars bound for Pittsburgh. Down the Ohio and up the Mississippi by steamboat they went to St. Louis. Here they camped at the Gravery, 3 miles from town. Next, they spent 12 days on a steamboat, puffing up the Missouri to Atchison, Kansas Territory. Another part of Harper's company left England on the S. Curling. (called the Samuel Curling. in Latter-day Saint literature). Some of these travelers were Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) passengers; others paid their own fares. Arriving at New York City, they transferred to Philadelphia by steamer and then continued by rail to Pittsburgh and by steamboat (the Amazon) . down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to St. Louis. Finally, up the Missouri they went on the Ben Bolt. One family took the Sarana. from St. Louis to Atchison. An Italian family traveled from Piedmont by coach, railway, and steamer to reach Liverpool, crossed the Atlantic on the Juventa, and then traveled by rail to Pittsburgh and by steamboat to Atchison. All of these emigrants joined Harper's company at Mormon Grove.
Of Mormon Grove (just outside Atchison) one traveler said that it "presents a beautiful appearance with its pretty grove, its regular streets lined on each side by Tents in regular order & the creeks on each side in the valleys below." Here, the several nationalities camped in separate locations and elected their captain. Their train consisted of independent emigrants and PEF passengers: 238 of the latter and 67 of the former. The independent group started with 14 wagons, 136 oxen, 15 cows, 1 horse, and 1 mule. The PEF component had 25 wagons, 304 oxen, and 15 cows.
The train left Mormon Grove on July 25. At Grasshopper Creek the company paused to repair an axletree; at the Big Blue River, though a ferryboat was available, Captain Harper tried to save money by fording the stream. The water was deep and the riverbank steep. The men had to "rough lock" the wagon wheels and tug on restraining ropes to keep the vehicles from plunging into the water. Harper was the first to drive his wagon into the stream, but the current was too strong. Animals and wagon were swept away. Harper leaped to safety, but it was only with help from men on the riverbank that the rig was saved. Another wagon capsized, threatening the lives of its occupants and spilling freight and 22 sacks of precious flour into the Big Blue. The travelers salvaged what they could. Then a Frenchman attempted to swim the river but nearly drowned. Again, only teamwork saved him. With only part of the company safely across, the river rose, splitting the train in two. Captain Harper waited eight days (until General William S. Harney and 700 soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, arrived and wanted to use the ferry). Only then, to avoid further delay, did Harper swap a wagon for the ferryman's services to finish the crossing. General Harney and his men quickly followed and hastily moved west. Also in the vicinity was Milo Andrus' emigrant train. At the Little Blue, the Harper company paused to wash, cook, and collect bushels of wild plums and grapes.
The travelers were astonished at the nearby great herds of buffalo. These later caused stampedes among the emigrants' cattle. On August 21, two wagons overturned on a rough road. On August 23, the train camped on the Platte River, six miles from Fort Kearny. Three days later a party of Sioux Indians passed and four of them came to the Harper camp to trade. Because the United States was at war with this tribe, the emigrants took up their weapons "of all descriptions" and stayed close to Andrus' company. On September 3 the Harper train forded the South Platte; that night it rained hard, making the road very muddy. By then the oxen were weakening. After passing safely down the steep hill at Ash Hollow, the party received word from General Harney that only the day before he had attacked a Sioux village just two miles away. Reportedly, soldiers had killed 300 Indians, taken 100 prisoners and a herd of ponies, and then burned the lodges (later casualty estimates place the number of Indian dead at about 100). Harper's company "could see the smoke of fire in this village" from its camp. For three days soldiers guarded the emigrants. Then three of the troopers went with them all the way to Salt Lake.
The train stopped at Cedar Creek and near Chimney Rock, where a thunderstorm blew down tents. Near Scotts Bluff the company passed abandoned trading posts. The weather was cold and it hailed. By September 13 the train was at Fort Laramie. The next day Indians stole 150 horses from the Laramie herd. Grass for the animals was poor and scarce, and the road was increasingly rough, but Captain Harper wrote to Brigham Young that "the company . . .[is] in good health & spirits we are in as good traveling condition as companys [sic] generally are after coming the distance we have & and no difficulties but what by our united efforts we are able to overcome." The captain asked for "fresh cattle . . .to expedite the journey at the last end." Before reaching Deer Creek ". . . the party twice forded the North Platte." At Deer Creek they met friendly Crow Indians. On September 24 the train crossed the North Platte for the last time and traded with Indians. Harper's company camped at Willow Creek and repaired a wagon that had "run backwards down a long & steep hill." At Greasewood Creek the emigrants met eastward bound missionaries. Near Independence Rock, some Sioux tried to force tribute from the train-stationing a man in the road seated upon a buffalo robe-but the train pushed on nervously and on high alert. The Indians "continued following along side all day loading their guns and making many war demonstrations." Later, relief wagons came from Salt Lake. For ten days the company camped along the Sweetwater so the cattle could graze and regain strength. Some men used a tent to catch "a great number of fish." On October 2, two women caused alarm by wandering away from camp, but they returned before dark. The same day three young men went back along the trail to secure ox shoes and nails from the Allred train. When they started forward again, one of them was not feeling well and went for water. The other two continued on but got lost because Harper had taken a cutoff. At length, the wanderers found a merchant train and learned that they were now ahead of Harper. Leaving his companion with the merchants, one man finally found Harper only to learn that the third man had not yet returned. It had been snowing and was bitterly cold, and the missing man had no coat or food. A search party set out and finally found him. He too had found the merchant train but was "more dead than alive." Lame oxen were shod, and the train crossed Devil's Backbone, "a very dangerous road for the wagons. The road being covered at one point with large pieces of rock projecting from the earth." The party passed nine dead oxen.
At both Little and Big Sandy there was no grass; many oxen failed. At Green River there was good grass, but more cattle failed at Black's Fork. The train was at the Muddy River on October 16, Fort Bridger on the 18th, and Bear River the 21st. However, before reaching the Bear, the train had contended with steep, stony hills (including Quaking Aspen Ridge, the highest point on the Mormon Trail), and some grades required double-teaming. On October 21 Allred's party passed Harper. Harper crossed the Bear, reached the Weber, and on the 26th camped at Big Canyon Grove. The emigrants danced and sang, listened to speeches, presented a memorial of thanks to Captain Harper, and voted him a frame and plate glass to be paid for by voluntary contributions. The company The company crossed Big Mountain on October 27 and arrived in Salt Lake on the 29th, the last family train of the season.