John Riggs Murdock Company (1864)
Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Church Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 29 June 1864
- Departed From
- Wyoming, Nebraska
- Arrival
- 26 August 1864
- Captain
- John Riggs Murdock
- Number In Company
- 116
78 individuals, in addition to 18 teamsters and Captain Murdock, were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha). The Gilcrest family also joined and traveled with this company. Captain Murdock's company arrived in Salt Lake City on August 26. En route, three adults and two children died and teamster Sidney Beckstead was killed by an accidental discharge of his rifle.
- "Agents and Immigration," Deseret News, 10 August 1864, 361.
- Bagley, Will, and Rick Grunder. "I Could Hardly Hold the Pen," Overland Journal 27, no. 3 (2009): 48-78.
- Captain John R. Murdock Company (first mule train), manifests, 1864.
- "Fatal accident," Deseret News [Weekly], 21 September 1864, 405.
- Finlinson, George, [Diary], in Angie F. Lyman, comp., George Finlinson Family, 1835-1974 [1974], 19.
- Frank M. Gilcrest letter to Charley, 9 Feb. 1908, in Frank M. Gilcrest autobiography, 1908, 2-10.
- “Freight Manifests, 1864, 1868.” In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Freight manifests, 1861-1868, p. 4-11. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 4)
- “Freight manifests, 1863-1864.” In Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Freight manifests, 1861-1868.
- "List of Passengers," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 August 1864, 361.
- Murdock, John Riggs, [Reminiscences], in Joseph M. Tanner, A Biographical Sketch of John Riggs Murdock [1909], 150-51.
- "News from the Emigration," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph , 1 Aug. 1864, 3.
- "News from the Emigration," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph , 23 Aug. 1864, 2.
- "Our Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 31 August 1864, 384.
- Peterson, Isabell Ashman, Interview, in Stella H. Day, comp., Builders of Early Millard: Biographies of Pioneers of Millard County, 1850 to 1875 [1979], 502.
- Salt Lake Daily Telegraph , 27 Aug. 1864, 3.
- "This Season's Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 24 August 1864, 376.
- Watterson, Caroline Hobbs, [Reminiscences], 40, in "Story of Life and Labors of 'Kittie' Watterson, One of Logan's Early Pioneers," in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah, Scrapbooks.
| Ashman, Ann Elizabeth | 37 | 25 April 1827 | 12 March 1906 |
| Ashman, Ellen | 10 | 28 May 1854 | 18 November 1928 |
| Ashman, Harriet | 15 | 4 July 1848 | 22 April 1898 |
| Ashman, Isabella | 14 | 15 May 1850 | 14 May 1940 |
| Ashman, John | 42 | 7 February 1822 | 27 April 1909 |
| Ashman, John Thomas | 12 | 29 March 1852 | 24 January 1896 |
| Atkin, William | 64 | 31 January 1800 | 18 August 1875 |
| Baum, Isaac | 32 | 7 April 1832 | 18 November 1920 |
| Beckstead, Sidney Marcus | 32 | 19 March 1832 | 7 August 1864 |
| Betts, Eliza | 17 | 7 July 1845 | 10 December 1928 |
| Betts, Matilda | 20 | 10 December 1841 | 14 April 1915 |
| Briggs, Hyrum | Infant | 1 May 1864 | 1864 |
| Briggs, Jemima McAnley | 39 | 1827 | July 1864 |
| Briggs, Joseph Alma | 11 | 3 November 1850 | 13 January 1919 |
| Briggs, Robert | 39 | 15 October 1826 | 5 October 1890 |
| Briggs, William | 8 | 28 November 1858 | Unknown |
| Broadbent, James William | 12 | 14 December 1851 | 27 October 1923 |
| Broadbent, Mary Greenwood | 54 | 30 April 1811 | 7 December 1889 |
| Broadbent, Nancy | 22 | 18 May 1842 | 11 January 1889 |
| Brown, B. F. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Bullock, Alexander Hill | 25 | 22 September 1838 | 6 March 1926 |
| Clensy, Ann | 28 | About 1836 | Unknown |
| Clensy, Daniel | 4 | About 1860 | Unknown |
| Clensy, Emilie | 6 | About 1858 | Unknown |
| Clensy, Isabella | 8 | About 1856 | Unknown |
| Cooke, Benjamin Henry | 53 | 18 June 1811 | 17 March 1891 |
| Cooke, Charlotte | 18 | 7 March 1846 | 1 July 1920 |
| Cooke, Elizabeth | 20 | 27 September 1843 | 1 July 1928 |
| Cooke, Henry Abraham | 22 | 24 August 1841 | 9 March 1916 |
| Cooke, Martha | 54 | 28 October 1809 | 31 January 1890 |
| Cousins, Samuel | 25 | 22 February 1839 | 30 November 1891 |
| Davis, David John | 20 | 28 June 1844 | 8 May 1942 |
| Davis, Eli | 4 | 16 October 1859 | July 1864 |
| Davis, Moses | 43 | 5 August 1820 | 14 March 1909 |
| Davis, Phebe Ann Woolley | 41 | 20 November 1822 | 27 August 1877 |
| Davis, Rachel Susan | 16 | 4 September 1847 | 2 May 1910 |
| Dewsnup, Ann | 19 | 7 August 1844 | 27 September 1913 |
| Dewsnup, Hyrum Topham | 12 | 2 May 1852 | 25 February 1911 |
| Dewsnup, Jemima | 51 | 2 May 1813 | 26 February 1884 |
| Dewsnup, Phoebe | 17 | 1 April 1847 | 13 June 1929 |
| Eggleston, Orson Hyde | 22 | 3 October 1841 | 9 February 1917 |
| Engstrom, Johannah | 27 | 22 February 1837 | 2 May 1874 |
| Finlinson, George | 29 | 23 January 1835 | 12 April 1909 |
| Flake, William Jordan | 24 | 3 July 1839 | 10 August 1932 |
| Gardner, Elizabeth | 23 | 10 February 1841 | 18 August 1914 |
| Gilcrest, Frank Marion | 19 | 14 October 1844 | 1928 |
| Gilcrest, Inez Augusta | 16 | 22 August 1847 | Unknown |
| Gilcrest, John | 12 | 21 August 1851 | 31 January 1930 |
| Gilcrest, Mary Ann Blackman | 44 | 21 March 1820 | 1893 |
| Gilcrest, Samuel Fleming | 44 | 21 August 1819 | 1887 |
| Gilcrest, William Murray | 15 | 19 June 1849 | Unknown |
| Giles, Lucy Jane | 16 | 13 June 1848 | 26 April 1918 |
| Goodwin, James Henry | 20 | 14 August 1843 | 26 October 1916 |
| Gray, Jane | 26 | 28 January 1838 | 15 May 1867 |
| Hall, Martha | 22 | About 1842 | Unknown |
| Heaton, Frances | 60 | 3 March 1804 | 16 November 1873 |
| Heaton, Lovina | 8 | 5 November 1855 | 19 January 1938 |
| Heaton, Martha | 19 | 29 March 1845 | 16 February 1934 |
| Heaton, Rebecca | 30 | 28 February 1834 | 24 April 1896 |
| Heaton, Selina | 24 | 23 May 1840 | 16 December 1915 |
| Hobbs, Ann | 55 | 3 April 1809 | 25 July 1894 |
| Hobbs, Caroline | 18 | 28 June 1847 | 4 November 1928 |
| Hobbs, Mary Ann | 18 | 28 June 1847 | 17 April 1866 |
| Ingles, Jane | 55 | About 1827 | Unknown |
| Landon, Charles Porter | 22 | 2 April 1842 | 7 September 1927 |
| Laxton, Adelaide | 31 | 25 April 1833 | 31 May 1915 |
| Laxton, John Thomas | 9 | 31 January 1855 | 11 November 1866 |
| Laxton, William | 47 | 16 December 1816 | 3 March 1890 |
| Lee, [Mr.] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Lee, [Mrs.] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Lloyd, Elizabeth | 17 | About 1847 | Unknown |
| Longmore, Eliza Hale | 15 | 25 October 1848 | 12 December 1918 |
| Longmore, Jane | 54 | 30 March 1810 | 28 October 1895 |
| Lyman, Amasa Mason | 18 | 22 February 1846 | 21 February 1937 |
| Matthews, C. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Matthews, Hepzibah | 53 | 3 March 1811 | 8 January 1879 |
| Matthews, William | 54 | 14 October 1809 | 12 August 1874 |
| McAffee, Ann Lyons | 39 | 6 April 1826 | 14 November 1903 |
| McAffee, Elizabeth | 3 | 9 August 1860 | 26 May 1941 |
| McAffee, Ephraim | 8 | 30 March 1856 | 28 November 1905 |
| McAffee, Moroni | 6 | 28 June 1858 | 16 March 1947 |
| McAffee, Sarah | 21 | 24 October 1846 | 23 June 1919 |
| McBride, John Newton | 18 | 16 July 1845 | 28 June 1884 |
| McCollun, Elizabeth | 21 | 10 November 1842 | 24 April 1881 |
| Merrill, Dudley Justin | 31 | 5 April 1833 | 10 January 1885 |
| Murdock, John Riggs | 37 | 13 September 1826 | 12 November 1913 |
| Nelson, William | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Nielsen, Margaret | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Paramore, Ann | 14 | 16 October 1849 | 6 November 1929 |
| Parkinson, George | 9 | 26 September 1854 | 8 October 1930 |
| Parkinson, James | 53 | 3 February 1811 | 15 February 1875 |
| Parkinson, Joseph | 12 | About 1852 | Unknown |
| Parkinson, Martha Sinker | 40 | 17 September 1824 | 9 August 1897 |
| Paskett, Fanny Hannah | 22 | 4 October 1842 | 24 December 1925 |
| Perce, William | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Rockliff, Peter Joseph | 12 | 14 October 1851 | 21 March 1929 |
| Sannett, George | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Stevens, Charles Henry Robinson | 27 | 16 August 1837 | 9 November 1921 |
| Stevens, James | 37 | 21 August 1826 | 13 April 1910 |
| Stevens, Mary | 30 | 21 February 1834 | 5 February 1922 |
| Stone, Ellen | 28 | About 1856 | Unknown |
| Stone, Mary | 28 | About 1836 | Unknown |
| Thompson, Mary | 50 | 21 June 1814 | Unknown |
| Turner, Sarah | 23 | 10 June 1840 | July 1864 |
| Warner, Holstein Monroe | 27 | 16 March 1837 | 23 May 1866 |
| Wells, Alfred | 11 | 11 December 1852 | 29 June 1872 |
| Wells, George | 16 | December 1848 | Unknown |
| Wells, Henrietta | 42 | 11 June 1822 | 24 August 1895 |
| Wells, Hyrum | 10 | 29 March 1854 | 1 August 1905 |
| Wells, Joseph F. | 10 | 29 March 1854 | 21 October 1912 |
| Wells, Mary Ann | 6 | 1 April 1858 | 23 August 1929 |
| Wells, William Robert | 45 | 7 June 1819 | 12 September 1908 |
| Whetten, John Thomas | 2 | 7 March 1862 | 15 February 1932 |
| Whetten, Sophia | 20 | 4 April 1844 | 7 December 1924 |
| Williamsen, Ann | 53 | About 1811 | Unknown |
| Wood, Oscar Alexander | 25 | 30 September 1838 | 9 October 1901 |