William D. Pritchett Company (1864)
Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Independent Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 4 June 1864
- Departed From
- Virginia
- Arrival
- 31 August-1 September 1864
- Captain
- William Dekalb Pritchett
- Number In Company
- 38
The company began its journey 4 June 1864. At the time of departure, the company consisted of approximately 20 wagons. A party of Missourians en route to Oregon joined the wagon train. William D. Pritchett of Virginia was elected captain and many of the Missourians opposed this election. The company had a few encounters with Indians but only one recorded injury resulted from these encounters.
The company reached Salt Lake City on 31 August-1 September 1864.
- Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham Peery, reel 2, box 2, fd 14, item 5, 4-7.
- Higginbotham, Margaretta Easterday, Autobiographical sketch, in Genealogical Charts and Biographical Sketches of Members of the L.D.S. Church, Ogden Stake , 26 vols., 15:115.
- Peery, Elizabeth Letitia Higginbotham, [Reminiscences], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 23:80-82.
| Easterday, Elizabeth Hardin | 15 | 5 August 1848 | 27 April 1922 |
| Easterday, Francis Marion | 42 | 25 September 1821 | 22 August 1905 |
| Easterday, John Davis | 5 | 15 November 1858 | 8 July 1905 |
| Easterday, Lucy Ellen | 1 | 1 November 1862 | 10 May 1938 |
| Easterday, Margaretta | 18 | 7 May 1846 | 13 February 1927 |
| Easterday, Sarah | 38 | 9 July 1826 | 6 April 1905 |
| Easterday, Sarah Frances | 8 | 16 January 1856 | 8 July 1905 |
| Easterday, William Thomas | 20 | 27 July 1843 | 2 March 1923 |
| Garff, Ben | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Garff, Pritchett | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Harman, Daniel | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Harman, James | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Harman, Oscar | 18 | About 1846 | Unknown |
| Higginbotham, Elizabeth Letitia | 18 | 13 January 1846 | 13 December 1938 |
| Higginbotham, Francis David | 16 | 24 May 1848 | 8 October 1911 |
| Higginbotham, Louisa | 53 | 12 March 1808 | 8 January 1887 |
| Higginbotham, Simon Shelby | 25 | 20 June 1839 | 4 January 1889 |
| Nichols, Sally Harman | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Nichols, Thomas | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Peery, David Harold | 40 | 16 May 1824 | 17 September 1901 |
| Peery, Louisa Letitia | 4 | 14 July 1860 | 29 July 1930 |
| Pritchett, Barbra Ellen | 36 | 11 March 1828 | 11 April 1884 |
| Pritchett, John Douglas | 10 | 12 November 1853 | 3 August 1935 |
| Pritchett, John William | 4 | 8 August 1860 | 6 January 1943 |
| Pritchett, Kittie Evelyn | 12 | 12 December 1851 | 18 July 1924 |
| Pritchett, Margaret Adeline | 3 | 18 August 1860 | 16 April 1918 |
| Pritchett, Mary Jane | 24 | 16 July 1840 | 2 August 1903 |
| Pritchett, Mary Virginia Deseret | Infant | 30 January 1864 | Unknown |
| Pritchett, Nancy Elizabeth | 9 | 22 January 1855 | 30 May 1924 |
| Pritchett, Napoleon Bonaparte | 1 | 19 March 1863 | 6 February 1931 |
| Pritchett, Samuel Napoleon Bonaparte | 37 | 16 June 1827 | 22 October 1870 |
| Pritchett, Samuel Spotswood | 7 | 28 August 1856 | 31 May 1924 |
| Pritchett, Stonewall Jackson | 2 | 8 February 1862 | 10 October 1936 |
| Pritchett, Susan Calpernia | 13 | 7 June 1851 | 9 June 1903 |
| Pritchett, William Dekalb | 40 | 23 March 1824 | 11 January 1885 |
| Williams, Alice Susan | 2 | 27 September 1861 | 27 July 1937 |
| Williams, Mary Virginia | 22 | 10 May 1842 | 25 July 1926 |
| Williams, Samuel | 32 | About 1842 | Unknown |