William S. S. Willes Company (1865)
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Church Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 12, 15 August 1865
- Departed From
- Wyoming, Nebraska
- Arrival
- 11, 15, 29 November 1865
- Captain
- William Sidney Smith Willes
- Number In Company
- 186
About 200 individuals and about 50 wagons 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)
- "A Good Man Gone--A Deserving Family Destitute," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 2 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "Accidentally Drowned," Deseret News [Weekly], 2 Nov. 1865, 29.
- [Arnold's Arrival], Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 20 Nov. 1865, 2.
- "Captain W. S. S. Willis' Company," Deseret News, 20 September 1865, 403.
- [Chipman's Arrival], Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 20 Nov. 1865, 2.
- "For the Plains," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 6 Nov. 1865, 3.
- Gerber, Eva Schubel, “Sketch of the Life of Eva Schubel Gerber,” 1.
- "Got Safely In," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 30 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "Help to the Emigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 2 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "Immigration In," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 Nov. 1865, 52.
- "In," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 16 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "Interesting Telegrams," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 16 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "Later Telegram," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 16 Nov. 1865, 2.
- McBride, Heber Robert, Autobiography [ca. 1868], 28-46.
- "More Arrivals," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Nov. 1865, 45.
- Naisbitt, Catherine Hagell, Autobiographical statement relative to her emigration to Utah in 1865, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter, Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956. (MS 8306, Reel 27, item 3)
- "Pulled Through," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 30 Nov. 1865, 3.
- Shearman, W. H., [Letter], Deseret News [Weekly], 12 July 1865, 322.
- Taylor, Thomas, to Brigham Young, 18 Oct. 1865 [telegram], in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 59, box 45, fd. 27.
- "Teams Returned," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Nov. 1865, 44.
- "Telegram," Deseret News [Weekly], 23 Nov. 1865, 53.
- "Telegram," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 20 Nov. 1865, 2.
- "Telegrams," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Nov. 1865, 44.
- "The Emigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 21 Sep. 1865, 3.
- "The Emigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 30 Oct. 1865, 3.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 13 Sep. 1865, 397.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 2 Nov. 1865, 28.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 2 Nov. 1865, 28.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 20 Sep. 1865, 405.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 6 Sep. 1865, 389.
- "The Immigration," Deseret News [Weekly], 9 Nov. 1865, 37.
- "The Immigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 14 June 1865, 2.
- "The Immigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 24 June 1865, 3.
- "The Last Company," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 13 Nov. 1865, 3.
- "The Last In," Deseret News [Weekly], 30 Nov. 1865, 61.
- Thompson, Annie Maria Kershaw, "History of Annie Maria Kershaw Thompson," in Danny Jessop and Marla W. Jessop, comps., Joseph Frederick Thompson Ancestry [1996], 38.
- "Those Emigrants," Semi-Weekly Telegraph , 6 Nov. 1865, 3.
- Wharton, Irvine McBride, Application for Membership, The Society of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 14 May 1923.
- Willes, W. S. S., to Brigham Young, 8 Sep. 1865, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 42, box 30, fd. 18.
- "Willis' Train," Deseret News [Weekly], 16 Nov. 1865, 44.
| Amussen, Carl Christian | 40 | 20 May 1825 | 29 October 1902 |
| Ash, Elizabeth Ackerley | 12 | 19 March 1853 | 17 May 1932 |
| Ash, Hannah | 2 | 14 March 1863 | 24 October 1920 |
| Ash, James | 49 | 12 June 1816 | 21 December 1865 |
| Ash, Phoebe Ackerley | 39 | 18 April 1826 | 26 March 1869 |
| Barfoot, Joseph Lindsay | 49 | 29 March 1816 | 23 April 1882 |
| Bates, Joseph | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Baxter, James | 43 | About 1822 | Unknown |
| Baxter, James | 17 | About 1848 | 25 April 1888 |
| Baxter, John | 15 | 28 December 1849 | 27 May 1938 |
| Bircumshaw, Joseph | 45 | 7 March 1820 | 4 October 1889 |
| Bircumshaw, Mary Ellen | 13 | 13 August 1851 | 25 January 1915 |
| Bowdidge, Elizabeth | 26 | 16 November 1838 | Unknown |
| Brown, Prudence | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Brunton, Catharine | 37 | 21 May 1828 | 25 June 1896 |
| Butterworth, Betty [or Betsy] | 44 | ca. 1821 | Unknown |
| Cobb, Augusta | 62 | 7 December 1802 | 3 February 1886 |
| Cobb, Charlotte Ives | 29 | 3 August 1836 | 24 January 1908 |
| Cook, Jane | 28 | 29 February 1837 | 16 December 1908 |
| Cottle, Henry Edward | 20 | 29 January 1845 | 30 June 1911 |
| Cox, Eleanor Favour | 17 | 23 August 1847 | 19 April 1916 |
| Cox, Eleanor Favour | 42 | 5 June 1823 | 13 August 1893 |
| Cox, Elijah Edward | 12 | 4 May 1853 | 6 December 1909 |
| Cox, Frederick Walter | 53 | 20 January 1812 | 5 June 1879 |
| Cox, Henry Capes | 24 | 31 July 1841 | 16 April 1911 |
| Cox, Rachel | 7 | 21 July 1858 | Unknown |
| Cox, Rebecca | 22 | 16 August 1842 | 5 February 1932 |
| Cox, Samuel | 46 | 11 December 1818 | 26 July 1891 |
| Crosby, Ann | 18 | 4 December 1846 | 30 December 1913 |
| Cutcliffe, Elizabeth Jones | 68 | 11 May 1797 | 13 October 1897 |
| Davies [or Davis], David Morris | 39 | About 1826 | Unknown |
| Davies, Catherine | 13 | ca. 1852 | Unknown |
| Davies, David | 22 | About 1843 | Unknown |
| Davies, Mary Ann | 18 | About 1847 | Unknown |
| Dewsnup, John | 51 | 21 July 1814 | 23 January 1883 |
| Dickinson, William | 50 | About 1815 | Unknown |
| Duncombe, Albert Joseph Orson | 7 | 8 April 1858 | 24 October 1902 |
| Duncombe, Elizabeth | 49 | 2 December 1815 | 9 February 1892 |
| Duncombe, Franklin Willard | 10 | 26 April 1855 | 24 March 1904 |
| Duncombe, Joseph | 59 | 15 March 1806 | 15 January 1888 |
| Duncombe, Nehemiah David | 18 | 4 August 1847 | 11 June 1900 |
| Duncombe, Sarah Charlotte | 12 | 4 January 1853 | 5 March 1922 |
| Earley, Elizabeth | 19 | ca. 1846 | Unknown |
| Everett, M. J. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Fowler, Henry Charles | 37 | 7 April 1828 | 25 February 1884 |
| Gardner, Charlotte | 59 | About 1806 | Unknown |
| Gough, Hugh | 18 | About 1847 | Unknown |
| Gough, Mary Ann | 54 | About 1811 | Unknown |
| Griffin, Suzannah Allen | 20 | 4 October 1844 | 5 October 1896 |
| Hagell, Catherine | 16 | 28 March 1849 | 4 October 1938 |
| Haiselden, Deborah | 27 | 27 May 1838 | Unknown |
| Haiselden, John | 54 | 20 January 1811 | Unknown |
| Haiselden, Lavinia | 51 | About 1814 | Unknown |
| Hardy, Ann Schofield | 23 | 26 February 1842 | 6 February 1883 |
| Hardy, George | 20 | 4 October 1844 | 14 September 1908 |
| Hardy, George Schofield | Infant | 18 February 1865 | 16 September 1888 |
| Harry, Frederik F. | 10 | ca. 1855 | Unknown |
| Harry, Margaret | 34 | About 1831 | Unknown |
| Harry, Thomas H. | 39 | ca. 1826 | Unknown |
| Herzog, Johanna | 25 | About 1840 | Unknown |
| Hillier, Annie Laker Lashbrook | 24 | 6 September 1841 | 20 November 1915 |
| Hillier, Emeline Ellen | Infant | 4 March 1865 | 1 October 1947 |
| Hillier, George Charles | 27 | 11 May 1839 | 16 January 1908 |
| Hillier, Henry Thomas | 2 | 13 January 1863 | 19 December 1936 |
| Hookway, Ann | 45 | About 1820 | 29 February 1888 |
| Hookway, Eliza | 28 | 18 November 1836 | 7 February 1917 |
| Hulme, George | 71 | 5 January 1794 | 27 October 1865 |
| Isom, Elizabeth | 19 | About 1846 | Unknown |
| Isom, Sarah | 18 | About 1847 | Unknown |
| Jackson, Joseph | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Jardine, William | 16 | ca. 1849 | Unknown |
| Jones, Gwenllian | 40 | 12 October 1824 | 27 January 1909 |
| Jones, Hopkin | 45 | 25 January 1820 | 21 April 1897 |
| Jones, Lucy | 10 | 4 December 1854 | 22 April 1935 |
| Jones, Martha | 13 | 19 November 1851 | 20 August 1901 |
| Jones, Mary | 17 | 1 March 1848 | 28 April 1924 |
| Kershaw, Annie Maria | 12 | 16 June 1853 | 31 October 1924 |
| Kershaw, Eliza | 42 | 25 November 1822 | 12 July 1915 |
| Kershaw, George Jabez | 2 | 15 September 1862 | 10 March 1939 |
| Kershaw, Joseph Hyrum Watkins | 9 | 27 August 1855 | 7 February 1941 |
| Kershaw, Lydia Eliza | 7 | 13 September 1857 | 17 April 1934 |
| Kershaw, Samuel Frederick | 5 | 14 October 1859 | 15 March 1924 |
| Kilburn, Elizabeth | 16 | About 1849 | Unknown |
| King, Francis | 55 | About 1810 | Unknown |
| Lashbrook, Brigham | 10 | 27 April 1855 | 26 December 1937 |
| Lashbrook, Elizabeth Finch | 47 | 24 April 1818 | May 1893 |
| Lashbrook, Henry Laker | 61 | 20 May 1804 | Unknown |
| Lawrenson, Margaret | 59 | About 1806 | Unknown |
| Lee, Alfred Gilham | 59 | 12 September 1805 | 2 November 1870 |
| Mace, John | 58 | 13 May 1806 | 19 January 1869 |
| Maddock, Mary Ann | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| McBride, Heber Robert | 22 | 13 May 1843 | 31 July 1925 |
| McBride, Irvine Scott | 20 | 27 January 1845 | 3 September 1935 |
| Mears, John | 58 | About 1807 | Unknown |
| Meith, [Sister] | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Miller, Susan | 24 | About 1841 | Unknown |
| Morgan, Emma | 16 | ca. 1849 | Unknown |
| Morgan, Samuel | 58 | About 1807 | Unknown |
| Morgan, Sarah | 57 | ca. 1808 | Unknown |
| Northern, Elizabeth | 14 | 17 December 1850 | 8 November 1870 |
| O'Brien, Harriet | 25 | About 1840 | Unknown |
| Pearce, David | 20 | 5 April 1845 | 26 June 1882 |
| Pearce, Jane Johnson | 57 | 2 May 1808 | 25 March 1922 |
| Peck, Isaac | 58 | About 1807 | Unknown |
| Peck, Sarah Holmes | 53 | 12 November 1811 | 30 May 1870 |
| Peterson, Lorenzo | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Porcher, Hannah Pepper Edwards | 26 | 20 January 1839 | 5 August 1902 |
| Porcher, Thomas James | 26 | 20 January 1839 | 9 August 1897 |
| Priestley, Johanna Wilhelmina | 50 | 3 June 1815 | 27 July 1868 |
| Priestley, Josephine | 13 | 15 December 1851 | 29 August 1921 |
| Priestley, Sophia | 10 | 14 August 1854 | 1928 |
| Priestley, William Henry | 48 | 13 February 1817 | 30 May 1884 |
| Rassmussen, Carl | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Roberts, Abigail | 56 | 25 May 1809 | 2 February 1889 |
| Roberts, George | 15 | 25 August 1849 | 4 February 1930 |
| Rolfsen, Bengt | 17 | 10 September 1847 | Unknown |
| Salmon, Elizabeth | 56 | About 1809 | Unknown |
| Savage, Eliseman Palmer | 58 | 10 September 1806 | 14 November 1884 |
| Savage, Rosanna | 19 | 12 June 1846 | 27 November 1913 |
| Schubel, Anna Maria | 30 | 16 September 1831 | 15 March 1915 |
| Schubel, Barbara | 22 | 29 April 1843 | 28 October 1916 |
| Schubel, Eva | 17 | 24 December 1848 | 15 February 1938 |
| Shaw, Amy Lizzie | 1 | 4 August 1864 | 29 May 1908 |
| Shaw, Charles Christopher | 31 | 7 January 1834 | 22 December 1909 |
| Shaw, Harriet Ann Griffin | 27 | 1 February 1838 | 4 March 1902 |
| Shaw, Harry Griffin | 4 | 30 January 1861 | 12 January 1926 |
| Simper, Caroline Esther Elizabeth | 11 | 4 April 1854 | 26 November 1922 |
| Simper, Daniel | 17 | 30 April 1848 | 27 October 1935 |
| Simper, Elizabeth Massey | 47 | 2 May 1818 | 29 June 1887 |
| Simper, Mary Jane | 15 | 23 May 1850 | 3 September 1930 |
| Simper, Thomas William | 47 | 5 August 1818 | 25 April 1893 |
| Simper, Thomas William, Jr. | 7 | 27 October 1857 | 29 September 1932 |
| Simper, William | 19 | 30 July 1846 | 1 December 1891 |
| Sims, George | 43 | 4 March 1822 | 23 October 1865 |
| Sparks, Alice Maude | 1 | 15 July 1864 | 1 February 1919 |
| Sparks, Georgena Berry | 30 | 14 December 1834 | 27 January 1876 |
| Sparks, John | 27 | 8 December 1837 | 17 July 1921 |
| Spicer, Stephen | 60 | 26 February 1805 | 14 March 1872 |
| Sprague, Jane | 26 | ca. 1839 | Unknown |
| Stillman, Clara Matilda | 32 | 16 August 1832 | 6 October 1909 |
| Stokes, George | 37 | ca. 1828 | Unknown |
| Streuli, John Jacob | 39 | 14 February 1826 | 1 December 1888 |
| Sutliffe [or Scutliff], Jane | 13 | ca. 1852 | Unknown |
| Swain, Robert Henry | 30 | 19 March 1835 | 18 November 1895 |
| Templeman, Jane Carruthers | 55 | 18 September 1809 | 31 January 1900 |
| Templeman, Mathew | 50 | 9 November 1814 | 4 November 1885 |
| Templeman, Mathew | 17 | 24 February 1848 | 23 December 1865 |
| Templeman, Walter | 15 | 4 February 1850 | 27 March 1923 |
| Thurgood, Catherine | 22 | 2 April 1844 | 31 May 1930 |
| Townley, Amelia | 6 | 15 April 1859 | 25 February 1917 |
| Townley, Harriet Fawkes | 32 | 14 April 1833 | 19 September 1865 |
| Townley, William | 37 | 14 February 1828 | 12 October 1911 |
| Walter, Abijah Cogger | 24 | 22 June 1841 | 11 February 1875 |
| Walter, Charles | 23 | 20 August 1841 | 13 December 1895 |
| Walters, Caroline | 20 | 20 April 1845 | 2 November 1935 |
| Walters, Henry Booth | 38 | 2 August 1827 | 23 February 1913 |
| Walters, John Thomas | Infant | 11 November 1865 | 25 October 1901 |
| Watts, Rhoda | 38 | 15 February 1827 | 25 December 1909 |
| Waylett, William H. | 39 | 13 February 1826 | 17 October 1879 |
| Webb, Matilda Loretta | 18 | 31 July 1847 | 23 November 1886 |
| Wharton, Ann Ackerley Ash | 21 | 29 October 1843 | 26 September 1865 |
| Wharton, Thomas Bennett | 1 | 22 July 1864 | 23 April 1938 |
| Wharton, Thomas Tagg | 23 | 16 July 1842 | 10 December 1887 |
| White, Ann | 39 | 7 May 1826 | 21 March 1907 |
| White, Anna Maria | 7 | 25 May 1858 | 22 February 1901 |
| White, Herbert | 1 | 23 March 1864 | 19 March 1947 |
| White, John William | 4 | 17 February 1861 | 26 January 1938 |
| White, William | 44 | 29 April 1821 | 20 March 1902 |
| Wilguss, George B. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Willes, William Sidney Smith | 46 | 18 March 1819 | 3 February 1871 |
| Williams, Ann | 10 | 7 May 1855 | Unknown... |
| Williams, Henry | 7 | About 1856 | Unknown |
| Williams, Louisa | 22 | About 1843 | Unknown |
| Williams, Mary Griffith | 43 | 2 July 1818 | 1 June 1899 |
| Williams, Thomas | 12 | 10 April 1852 | Unknown... |
| Williams, William Griffith | 15 | 19 October 1849 | 31 July 1929 |
| Wilson, Annie Mariah | 22 | 11 May 1843 | 3 April 1907 |
| Wilson, Dorothy Crosby | 40 | 9 March 1825 | 20 December 1898 |
| Wilson, George Edward | 2 | 29 May 1863 | Unknown |
| Wilson, Richard | 14 | 30 August 1850 | 7 March 1896 |
| Wilson, Robert Crosby | 9 | 22 April 1856 | 24 August 1909 |
| Wilson, William | 59 | About 1806 | Unknown |
| Wilson, William M. | 17 | 6 December 1847 | 22 January 1934 |
| Wixen, Maria J. | 53 | About 1812 | 20 August 1865 |
| Wixen, William J. | 54 | About 1811 | Unknown |
| Worseldine, Mary | 45 | 1820 | 7 February 1902 |