Easton Kelsey Company (1851)

Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Independent Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 29 June 1851
- Departed From
- Kanesville, Iowa
- Arrival
- 22 September 1851
- Captain
- Easton Kelsey
- Number In Company
- 179
100 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs). They originally departed about June 10, but turned back due to Indian trouble. They left again June 29. Luman A. Shurtliff was captain of the 1st Fifty and Isaac Allred was captain of the 2nd Fifty.
The company arrived in Salt Lake City between September 22 and October 7, 1851.
- Ames, Ira, Autobiography and Journal, 1851.
- Bushman, John, The Life and Labors of John Bushman, 10-11, BX 8670.1 .B963.
- Bushman, Martin Benjamin, Autobiographical sketch, 1925, [6].
- Davis, Albert Wesley, Biographical sketch [ca. 1921], 4.
- King, Thomas Edwin, Autobiographical sketch, in Kingston United Order journals 1877-1883, vol. 1.
- King, Volney, Diaries, 1873-1922.
- Luman A. Shurtliff autobiography, circa 1852-1876, Autobiography, circa 1852-1876. Begins at the last line of page 7.
- Musser, Amos Milton, Diaries 1852-1856, vol. 1, 33.
- Richards, Joseph Hill, Autobiography, 19.
- Richards, Joseph Hill, Joseph H. Richards Autobiography and Family History, 9.
- Shurtliff, Luman Andros, Journal, 1841 May-1856 Apr., fd. 1, 282-91.
- Stevens, Augusta Dorius, Autobiography, 3-5.
- "Still Later from Salt Lake and the Plains," Frontier Guardian, 22 August 1851, 2.
- Theobald, William, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 28:136-37.
- Thomas, Hayward, Reminiscences and journal, 1848-1851, 27-35.
Allred, Amanda Jane | 7 | 16 November 1843 | 15 March 1915 |
Allred, Eliza Maria | 14 | 2 October 1836 | 21 March 1926 |
Allred, Elizabeth Ann | 64 | 6 May 1786 | 23 April 1879 |
Allred, Elizabeth Ann | 35 | 4 March 1816 | 21 April 1887 |
Allred, Elizabeth Hannah | 7 | 27 September 1843 | 7 February 1927 |
Allred, George Martin Hinkel | 13 | 27 September 1837 | 14 January 1926 |
Allred, Hannah Elizabeth | 2 | 24 August 1848 | 30 May 1900 |
Allred, Isaac | 38 | 28 June 1813 | 12 May 1859 |
Allred, James | 67 | 22 January 1784 | 10 January 1876 |
Allred, James Henry | 14 | 17 June 1837 | 9 October 1895 |
Allred, James Martin | 12 | 14 February 1839 | 28 July 1918 |
Allred, John Allen | 16 | 29 August 1834 | 8 April 1904 |
Allred, John Franklin | Infant | 1 January 1851 | 1 July 1918 |
Allred, Julia Ann | 5 | 12 November 1845 | 14 September 1933 |
Allred, Julia Ann | 35 | 9 February 1816 | 16 May 1898 |
Allred, Marinda Melvina | 21 | 22 May 1830 | 31 May 1916 |
Allred, Mary | 28 | 18 February 1823 | 27 December 1910 |
Allred, Mary Leoma | 1 | 5 May 1850 | 5 January 1938 |
Allred, Parley Pratt | 11 | 8 July 1839 | 15 October 1904 |
Allred, Samuel | Infant | 3 June 1851 | 19 January 1932 |
Allred, Sanford | 2 | 30 October 1848 | 8 November 1900 |
Allred, Sarah Eleanor | 1 | 10 June 1850 | Unknown |
Allred, Sidney H. Little | 10 | 6 February 1841 | 25 May 1917 |
Allred, Silas Lafayette | 2 | 31 August 1848 | 12 December 1932 |
Allred, Wiley Payne | 33 | 31 May 1818 | 28 March 1912 |
Allred, Wiley Payne | 4 | 19 January 1847 | 18 April 1873 |
Allred, William Alma | 18 | 26 June 1833 | 25 January 1900 |
Ames, Ira | 46 | 22 September 1804 | 15 January 1869 |
Ames, Ira James | 14 | 3 October 1836 | 21 July 1912 |
Ames, Samuel | 8 | 12 July 1842 | 10 January 1925 |
Ames, Sarah | 37 | 6 May 1814 | 26 October 1889 |
Babbitt, Loren Lamoni | 15 | 25 September 1835 | 30 April 1915 |
Babbitt, Loren Whiting | 44 | 19 September 1806 | 29 August 1883 |
Babbitt, Mary | 45 | 4 January 1806 | 26 May 1875 |
Booth, Esther Jane | 17 | 29 April 1834 | 30 January 1913 |
Bowen, [Mr.] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Bushman, Elias Albert | 1 | 6 December 1849 | 15 October 1925 |
Bushman, Elizabeth | 48 | 12 September 1802 | 21 May 1878 |
Bushman, Jacob | 20 | 27 July 1830 | 25 March 1919 |
Bushman, John | 8 | 7 June 1843 | 30 May 1926 |
Bushman, Martin | 49 | 1 April 1802 | 18 October 1870 |
Bushman, Martin Benjamin | 10 | 5 February 1841 | 31 October 1927 |
Bushman, Sarah Ann | 18 | 9 January 1833 | 18 June 1917 |
Davis, Albert Wesley | 10 | 25 April 1841 | 3 December 1928 |
Davis, Alma Charles | 3 | 6 June 1848 | 24 September 1903 |
Davis, Edwin Woolley | 12 | 16 August 1838 | 2 December 1916 |
Davis, Elizabeth Thompson | 14 | 8 May 1837 | 10 December 1899 |
Davis, Ephraim George | Infant | 27 August 1851 | 7 July 1894 |
Davis, Jane Thompson | 17 | 14 February 1834 | 15 December 1903 |
Davis, John George | 5 | 10 December 1845 | 11 September 1921 |
Davis, John Tucker | 45 | 3 March 1806 | 20 December 1888 |
Davis, Letitia Ann | 35 | 2 August 1815 | 26 January 1872 |
Davis, Milton Herbert | 5 | 4 May 1846 | 28 August 1890 |
Davis, Nathan | 36 | 2 October 1814 | 29 December 1894 |
Davis, Rachel Hannah | 14 | 5 March 1837 | 17 January 1882 |
Davis, Sarah | 36 | 14 April 1815 | 10 May 1895 |
Davis, William George | 8 | 12 November 1842 | 11 December 1857 |
Dayton, Albert Friend | 1 | 14 August 1849 | 5 February 1918 |
Dayton, Alma Theodore | 4 | 4 December 1846 | 4 February 1933 |
Dayton, Hiram | 52 | 1 November 1798 | 10 December 1881 |
Dayton, Isabelle Florinda | Infant | 3 September 1850 | 4 November 1909 |
Dayton, Lovira Myril | 10 | 8 October 1840 | 6 March 1877 |
Dayton, Mary | 21 | 3 March 1830 | 28 April 1879 |
Dayton, Moroni | 16 | 3 September 1834 | 14 April 1903 |
Dayton, Nancy | 32 | 6 November 1818 | 28 April 1879 |
Dayton, Permelia | 51 | 28 July 1799 | 10 January 1882 |
Dayton, Sophia | 25 | 4 September 1825 | 22 December 1861 |
Edwards, Eliza Elvira | 24 | 31 August 1826 | 16 August 1875 |
Fausett, Harriet Catherine | 18 | 8 March 1833 | 28 November 1912 |
Fausett, Joseph Smith | 13 | 24 January 1838 | 25 January 1922 |
Fausett, Matilda Caroline | 41 | 13 August 1809 | 3 October 1867 |
Fausett, Sarah Louisa | 16 | 15 February 1835 | 20 December 1915 |
Fausett, William McKee | 44 | 6 January 1807 | 6 September 1896 |
Glazier, Charles Dean | 8 | 26 September 1842 | 4 January 1917 |
Glazier, Lewis Orrin | 22 | 8 March 1829 | 6 January 1882 |
Glazier, Loren Scovill | 5 | 26 December 1845 | 14 July 1922 |
Glazier, Martha Bitner | 2 | 8 October 1848 | 30 January 1912 |
Glazier, Mary Rosetta | 7 | 15 December 1843 | 13 December 1885 |
Glazier, Rosetta | 47 | 4 June 1804 | 25 September 1885 |
Glazier, Shepherd | 57 | 9 September 1793 | 23 February 1881 |
Hamson, George Frederick | 31 | 19 April 1820 | 5 August 1892 |
Hamson, Hyrum Smith | 1 | 22 September 1849 | December 1914 |
Hamson, Joseph Smith | 3 | 11 January 1848 | 6 November 1920 |
Hamson, Sarah Ann | 22 | 22 July 1828 | 9 April 1903 |
Hawkes, Joshua | 14 | 20 August 1836 | 5 March 1914 |
Henderson, Charlotte | 13 | 25 September 1837 | 8 July 1916 |
Henderson, Elizabeth | 50 | 3 December 1800 | May 1884 |
Henderson, Hyrum | 10 | 4 December 1840 | 28 May 1909 |
Henderson, Martin Henry | 15 | 10 November 1835 | 6 April 1907 |
Henderson, Samuel | 66 | 21 February 1785 | 24 February 1856 |
Henderson, Sarah Elizabeth | 14 | 24 July 1836 | 9 December 1911 |
Henderson, William Jasper | 11 | 26 June 1840 | 22 September 1919 |
Jewett, Cynthia Jane | 6 | 26 November 1844 | 7 January 1933 |
Kearns, Barbara | 63 | 1 February 1788 | 21 December 1871 |
Kearns, Henry | 73 | 27 February 1778 | 22 February 1860 |
Kelsey, Abigail | 27 | 15 November 1823 | 4 December 1892 |
Kelsey, Easton | 5 | 8 April 1846 | 31 October 1854 |
Kelsey, Easton | 38 | 9 March 1813 | 10 May 1899 |
Kelsey, Louisa Abigail | 6 | 9 August 1844 | 17 November 1919 |
Kelsey, Orson | 10 | 1 October 1840 | 7 May 1922 |
King, Culbert | 15 | 31 January 1836 | 26 October 1909 |
King, Delilah Cornelia | 9 | 10 July 1841 | 5 January 1907 |
King, John Robison | 13 | 27 September 1837 | 24 July 1899 |
King, LeRoy | Infant | 21 August 1850 | 19 March 1852 |
King, Matilda | 40 | 11 March 1811 | 19 February 1894 |
King, Thomas Edwin | 12 | 19 April 1839 | 19 January 1923 |
King, Thomas Rice | 38 | 9 March 1813 | 3 February 1879 |
King, Volney | 4 | 11 March 1847 | 30 January 1925 |
King, William Rice | 17 | 8 April 1834 | 17 February 1892 |
Musser, Amos Milton | 21 | 20 May 1830 | 24 September 1909 |
Oviatt, Henry Herman | 19 | 17 June 1832 | 8 April 1919 |
Oviatt, Ira | 46 | 8 December 1804 | 1 July 1868 |
Oviatt, Judith | 10 | 22 March 1841 | 12 November 1918 |
Oviatt, Ruth Fellows | 42 | 28 September 1808 | 15 August 1893 |
Raven, [Sister] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Reed, DeWitt Clinton | 3 | 3 November 1847 | 30 July 1911 |
Rhodes, Alonzo Donnell | 24 | 2 September 1826 | 8 July 1893 |
Rhodes, Barbara Alverina | Infant | 20 August 1851 | 9 June 1933 |
Rhodes, Barbara Ellen | 25 | August 1825 | 29 April 1916 |
Richards, Agnes | 43 | 6 June 1808 | 30 March 1886 |
Richards, Agnes | 7 | 1 November 1843 | 10 November 1929 |
Richards, Hyrum Thomas | 2 | 23 March 1849 | 18 October 1915 |
Richards, John | 12 | 2 June 1839 | 27 September 1861 |
Richards, John | 46 | 16 May 1805 | 15 November 1889 |
Richards, Joseph Hill | 9 | 5 December 1841 | 3 July 1924 |
Richards, Mary | 14 | 14 May 1837 | 17 May 1902 |
Richards, Rachel | 4 | 27 July 1846 | 17 May 1925 |
Riley, [Captain] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Shurtleff, Vincent | 37 | 29 May 1814 | 24 May 1893 |
Shurtliff, Altamira | 34 | 7 August 1816 | 30 July 1883 |
Shurtliff, Angeline Almeda | 8 | 8 February 1843 | 25 January 1910 |
Shurtliff, Cynthia | 45 | 19 June 1806 | 16 June 1873 |
Shurtliff, Cynthia Ann | 13 | 19 December 1837 | 30 June 1903 |
Shurtliff, Elizabeth Hatch | 8 | 2 June 1843 | 21 March 1916 |
Shurtliff, Ellen Cordelia | 2 | 14 March 1849 | 22 December 1879 |
Shurtliff, Elsamina Emergine | 20 | 21 April 1831 | 22 January 1881 |
Shurtliff, Emily Eunice | Infant | 6 October 1850 | 11 December 1910 |
Shurtliff, Ezra N. | 1 | September 1849 | 1930 |
Shurtliff, Francis Marion | Infant | 23 January 1851 | 29 January 1940 |
Shurtliff, Haskell Vincent | 20 | 24 November 1830 | 11 November 1906 |
Shurtliff, Jane Narcissus | 10 | 29 September 1840 | 10 April 1924 |
Shurtliff, Lewis Warren | 15 | 23 July 1835 | 2 May 1922 |
Shurtliff, Luman Andrus | 44 | 13 March 1807 | 25 August 1884 |
Shurtliff, Lydia Amanda | 12 | 20 August 1838 | 18 January 1922 |
Shurtliff, Mary Eliza | 18 | 25 December 1832 | 7 October 1914 |
Shurtliff, Melissa Adeline | 18 | 27 May 1833 | 21 May 1905 |
Shurtliff, Noah Luman | 4 | 25 November 1846 | 19 June 1892 |
Smith, "Nick" | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
Spencer, Mary Jane Burn | 17 | 14 February 1834 | 10 December 1903 |
Stewart, Mary Elizabeth | 9 | 25 December 1841 | 9 July 1894 |
Streeper, John Wilkinson | 5 | 5 April 1846 | 14 January 1910 |
Streeper, Josephine | 16 | 6 May 1835 | 20 July 1894 |
Streeper, Mary Catherine | 9 | 2 May 1842 | 9 November 1911 |
Streeper, Matilda | 37 | 18 February 1814 | 10 October 1892 |
Streeper, Matilda | 2 | 21 September 1848 | 4 August 1928 |
Streeper, Wilkinson | 41 | 9 September 1809 | 16 January 1856 |
Streeper, William Henry | 13 | 1 August 1837 | 4 October 1930 |
Tanner, William Smith | 12 | 28 March 1839 | 6 August 1910 |
Theobald, Arthur | 7 | 1 June 1844 | 3 March 1890 |
Theobald, Clara | 5 | 15 June 1846 | 3 January 1923 |
Theobald, Drusilla | 8 | 22 October 1842 | 25 October 1916 |
Theobald, George | 3 | 22 May 1848 | 3 February 1942 |
Theobald, Martha | 34 | 18 October 1816 | 30 August 1860 |
Theobald, Ruth | Infant | 1 September 1850 | 28 April 1926 |
Theobald, William | 38 | 31 March 1813 | 28 February 1895 |
Thomas, Hayward | 36 | 6 December 1814 | 16 August 1893 |
Waldron, Emeline | 26 | 22 January 1825 | 6 December 1898 |
Waldron, Gillispie Walter | 14 | 15 August 1836 | 10 July 1921 |
Waldron, Levi Savage | Infant | 7 July 1850 | 9 March 1936 |
Warner, Byron | 18 | 1 February 1833 | 17 February 1904 |
Warner, Cornelia Elizabeth | 6 | 18 September 1844 | 24 September 1907 |
Warner, Cyrus Adelbert | 1 | 16 October 1849 | 1913 |
Warner, Dorus Burzee | 12 | 26 July 1838 | 28 February 1914 |
Warner, Holstein Monroe | 14 | 16 March 1837 | 23 May 1866 |
Warner, Mary Elvira | 29 | 22 April 1822 | 13 March 1886 |
Warner, Mortimer Wilson | 9 | 2 April 1842 | 14 August 1921 |
Warner, Orange | 47 | 23 June 1804 | 12 June 1881 |
Warner, Orange Horatio | 4 | 29 March 1847 | 24 February 1934 |
Warner, Orlando Wallace | 11 | 23 October 1839 | 5 June 1920 |