Atchison-Pilling Company (1853)

Type: Wagon

Category: Independent Train

Direction: Westbound

Departure: July 1853

Departed From: Kanesville, Iowa

Arrival: 13 September 1853

Captains: John Pilling; William Hildreth Atchison

Number In Company: 13

The Pilling and Atchison families traveled to Utah from Kanesville in a small group with four wagons.

"Pilling, Richard," [Biographical sketch], in Andrew Jenson, comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1971), Vol. 1:386.


Adams, Mary Ann	17	31 March 1836	23 August 1910
Atchison, Elisabeth	51	1 March 1802	30 January 1884
Atchison, John Arlington	2	28 April 1851	6 October 1883
Atchison, John Barton	30	19 January 1823	3 July 1897
Atchison, Lucy Clarinda	5	28 October 1847	17 October 1922
Atchison, Melinda Elizabeth	30	31 March 1823	10 August 1898
Atchison, Sarah Elizabeth	4	13 March 1849	7 March 1890
Atchison, William Hildreth	58	24 January 1795	8 October 1865
Atchison, William Stanton	8	12 May 1845	10 May 1909
Laycock, Elijah	4	4 August 1848	30 November 1909
Pilling, John	57	4 February 1796	20 August 1887
Pilling, Margaret Peggy Ann	54	17 January 1799	7 July 1874
Pilling, Richard	19	28 November 1833	28 December 1906