Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)
Image taken in the 1860s
Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Independent Train
- Direction
- Eastbound
- Departure
- 2 July 1848
- Departed From
- Sutters Fort, California
- Arrival
- 6 September 1848
- Captains
- Jonathan Harriman Holmes
- Samuel Thompson
- Number In Company
- 46
This company consisted of 44 men and 1 woman, 39 of whom were returning Mormon Battalion veterans. In early May a small survey group set out from Sutter's Fort to find a trail across the Sierra Mountains that could be traversed by wagons. This company constructed a wagon road over Carson Pass which was later used by many traveling to and from California. They left Pleasant Valley (near Placerville) and crossed the Sierras to Carson Valley. At that point the company divided into smaller groups and traveled to Salt Lake City.
- Addison Pratt autobiography and journals, 1843-1852.
- Azariah Smith autobiographical sketch, 1903, 6-8.
- Elijah Elmer diary in "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," edited by Will Bagley, Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7.
- Ephraim Green journal, 1848 June-September and 1849 December.
- F. A. Hammond, "In Early Days. My Introduction to Mormonism," Juvenile Instructor,15 August 1894, 517-518.
- "General Items," Deseret News, 25 December 1852.
- Henele Pikale (Henry W. Bigler), "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor, 1 December 1886, 365-66.
- Henele Pikale (Henry W. Bigler), "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor, 15 December 1886, 371.
- Henry W. Bigler reminiscences and diaries, 1846-1850, Volume contents: (1) February 1846-November 1850, 91-106.
- Henry W. Bigler reminiscences and diaries, 1846-1850, Volume contents: (2) July-September 1848, 1-13.
- Jonathan H. Holmes diary, 1846-1848.
- Melissa Burton Coray Kimball in "Utah Woman's 2,000-Mile March Fifty-five Years Ago," Salt Lake Herald, 26 May 1901, 2.
- "Names of men who wish for land to cultivate who came from California with Jonathan H. Holmes," Land records, circa 1847-1860, Salt Lake (County) Recorder's Office land records, circa 1847-1860.
- Robert Pixton, Autobiography, circa 1870, 30-31, in Robert Pixton papers, circa 1870.
- Samuel H. Rogers reminiscences and diary, 1841-1886, Folder contents: (1) Reminiscences and journal, 1841 June-1855 July, 158-66.
- Zadoc K. Judd autobiography, 1903-1907, 33-36.
| Adair, John Wesley | 28 | 18 February 1820 | 5 May 1903 |
| Allen, Ezra Hela | 33 | 28 July 1814 | 27 June 1848 |
| Allred, James Riley | 21 | 28 January 1827 | 14 April 1871 |
| Behunin, Philo Marshall | 20 | 4 February 1828 | 31 December 1891 |
| Bigler, Henry William | 32 | 28 August 1815 | 24 November 1900 |
| Browett, Daniel | 38 | 18 December 1809 | 27 June 1848 |
| Brown, James Stephens | 19 | 4 July 1828 | 25 March 1902 |
| Bush, Richard | 22 | 13 March 1826 | 21 June 1883 |
| Coray, Melissa | 20 | 2 March 1828 | 21 September 1903 |
| Coray, William | 25 | 14 May 1823 | 7 March 1849 |
| Cox, Henderson | 18 | 6 November 1829 | 27 June 1848 |
| Cox, John | 37 | 8 August 1810 | 1 April 1878 |
| Dennett, Daniel Quimby | 39 | 27 December 1808 | 10 March 1872 |
| Dobson, Joseph | 43 | 26 August 1804 | 24 February 1872 |
| Douglas, James | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Eagar, John | 24 | 13 July 1823 | 3 March 1864 |
| Elmer, Elijah | 38 | 13 April 1810 | 13 March 1880 |
| Evans, Israel | 19 | 2 October 1828 | 31 May 1896 |
| Green, Ephraim | 41 | 5 March 1807 | 6 October 1874 |
| Hammond, Francis Asbury | 25 | 1 November 1822 | 27 November 1900 |
| Hatch, Meltiar | 22 | 15 July 1825 | 8 July 1895 |
| Hatch, Orin | 18 | 9 May 1830 | 8 September 1906 |
| Holmes, Jonathan Harriman | 42 | 11 March 1806 | 18 August 1880 |
| Holt, William | 27 | 11 September 1820 | 6 December 1888 |
| Johnstun, William James | 23 | 21 August 1824 | 26 September 1912 |
| Judd, Zadoc Knapp | 20 | 15 October 1827 | 28 January 1909 |
| Kelley, George | 32 | 10 January 1816 | prob. 1863 |
| Martin, Jesse Bigler | 23 | 11 April 1825 | 17 October 1908 |
| Miller, Miles | 29 | 26 July 1818 | 28 February 1900 |
| Moss, David | 29 | 17 September 1818 | 16 January 1897 |
| Muir, William Smith | 25 | 19 July 1822 | 27 November 1896 |
| Pickup, George | 27 | 16 April 1821 | About 1860 |
| Pixton, Robert | 29 | 27 February 1819 | 23 November 1881 |
| Pratt, Addison | 46 | 21 February 1802 | 14 October 1872 |
| Rogers, Samuel Hollister | 29 | 1 March 1819 | 20 September 1891 |
| Sly, James Calvin | 40 | 8 August 1807 | 31 August 1864 |
| Smith, Azariah | 21 | 1 August 1826 | 5 September 1912 |
| Stephens, Alexander | 35 | 13 April 1813 | 15 September 1894 |
| Strong, William | 20 | 30 October 1827 | 24 December 1888 |
| Thompson, Samuel | 35 | 30 March 1813 | 22 April 1892 |
| Truman, Jacob Mica | 22 | 30 August 1825 | 23 November 1881 |
| Weir, Thomas | 38 | 26 July 1809 | 25 July 1893 |
| White, John Stout | 30 | 15 February 1818 | 5 June 1907 |
| Willes, Ira Jones | 36 | 21 January 1812 | 15 December 1863 |
| Willes, William Sidney Smith | 29 | 18 March 1819 | 3 February 1871 |
| Workman, Oliver Gaultry | 20 | 7 January 1828 | 28 July 1902 |