William Atkinson Company (1853)
Date Unknown
- Type
- Wagon
- Category
- Independent Train
- Direction
- Westbound
- Departure
- 18 May 1853
- Departed From
- Keokuk/Kainesville, Iowa
- Arrival
- 10 September 1853
- Captain
- William Atkinson
- Number In Company
- 84
Left Keokuk, Iowa 18 May [left Kanesville, Iowa, 1 July] with 79 individuals and 12 wagons in the company when it began its journey.
The members of this company arrived 10-11 September 1853.
- Jane Jennings Eldredge, "Historical Sketch: William Atkinson," Records and Historical Sketches of Residents of Davis County, Utah Volume 5 (1916), 114.
- Jesse W. Crosby Company report, 1853 August 19.
- "John Harris," In Biographical Information Relating to Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel database.
- Marriner W. Merrill journal and reminiscences, 1888-1894, Volume 2, 1888, 11-13.
- Melvin Clarence Merrill, Utah Pioneer and Apostle Marriner Wood Merrill and His Family (Marriner Wood Merrill Heritage Committee, 1937; second printing September 1980), 28-30.
- William G. Hartley, "LDS Emigration in 1853: The Keokuk Encampment and Outfitting Ten Wagon Trains for Utah," Mormon Historical Studies 4, 2 (Fall 2003): 43-76.
| Atkinson, Amos Stiles | 6 | 11 November 1846 | 28 September 1893 |
| Atkinson, Frances Elizabeth | 17 | 11 March 1836 | 26 June 1928 |
| Atkinson, James Isaac | 11 | 28 November 1841 | 18 December 1933 |
| Atkinson, Joseph | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Atkinson, Mary Jane | 14 | 13 September 1838 | 2 March 1881 |
| Atkinson, Phebe | 4 | 22 January 1849 | 30 April 1938 |
| Atkinson, Phebe | 43 | 9 October 1809 | 21 October 1904 |
| Atkinson, Profinda | 2 | 26 December 1850 | 19 May 1853 |
| Atkinson, Sarah Ann | 18 | 28 September 1834 | 16 October 1915 |
| Atkinson, Thomas | 9 | 23 July 1843 | 20 September 1928 |
| Atkinson, William | 40 | 20 September 1812 | 29 August 1879 |
| Atkinson, William Newlove | 13 | 2 May 1840 | 14 March 1928 |
| Bowskill, Jane | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Bowskill, William | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Brady, Amelia | 10 | 2 September 1843 | 30 January 1914 |
| Brady, Susan Ann Elizabeth | 35 | 17 March 1818 | 24 October 1906 |
| Crosby, Jesse Wentworth | 32 | 25 November 1820 | 11 June 1893 |
| Crosby, Joshua | 70 | 6 April 1783 | 22 June 1873 |
| Crosby, L. W. | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Daniels, John | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Finley, Thomas | 18 | 15 August 1834 | 27 July 1904 |
| Floyd, Enoch | 19 | 11 February 1834 | 3 August 1859 |
| Floyd, Enoch | 45 | 30 April 1808 | 10 November 1855 |
| Floyd, Julia Ann | Infant | 25 November 1852 | 5 June 1860 |
| Floyd, Leonard | 15 | 12 June 1837 | 5 June 1916 |
| Floyd, Lyman | 15 | 12 June 1837 | 29 May 1863 |
| Floyd, Sarah Elizabeth | 12 | 10 January 1841 | 26 January 1866 |
| Floyd, Sarah Ingersol | 36 | 21 September 1816 | 26 February 1889 |
| Forbs, James | 12 | About 1841 | Unknown |
| Harris, John | 39 | 17 December 1813 | 8 August 1878 |
| Hodson, Ann | 12 | 22 May 1840 | 6 November 1886 |
| Hodson, Elizabeth | 17 | 20 January 1836 | 17 February 1917 |
| Hodson, John | 45 | 10 January 1808 | 7 October 1880 |
| Hodson, John Hyrum | 8 | 18 October 1844 | 20 November 1932 |
| Hodson, Joseph Ephraim | 1 | 19 May 1851 | 24 February 1927 |
| Hodson, Maria | 38 | 10 January 1815 | 8 October 1891 |
| Hodson, Mary Jane | 5 | 22 March 1848 | 1 June 1936 |
| Hodson, Moses Alma | Infant | 1 March 1853 | 13 November 1875 |
| Hodson, Sarah Ellen | 3 | 16 March 1850 | 13 July 1932 |
| Hodson, Thomas Heber | 6 | 10 November 1846 | 28 February 1921 |
| Hodson, William | 18 | 18 September 1834 | 21 April 1917 |
| Jones, Lewis | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Jones, William | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| McMinn, Augustus | 9 | 28 September 1843 | 1 April 1878 |
| McMinn, Elizabeth | 5 | 20 November 1847 | Unknown |
| McMinn, Elizabeth | 29 | 6 February 1824 | 19 January 1915 |
| McMinn, Ephraim | 3 | 13 January 1850 | 16 January 1913 |
| McMinn, John Andrew | 1 | 6 February 1852 | 27 November 1920 |
| McMinn, John Andrew | 40 | 26 July 1812 | 24 June 1869 |
| McMinn, Margaret | 8 | 16 March 1845 | 10 April 1934 |
| McMinn, Mary Jane | 11 | 22 August 1841 | 24 April 1922 |
| McMinn, Rebekah Ann | Infant | 7 April 1853 | Unknown |
| Merrill, Marriner Wood | 20 | 25 September 1832 | 6 February 1906 |
| Ogilvie, Oliver | 26 | About 1827 | 8 March 1860 |
| Price, Ann | 11 | 11 September 1841 | 10 December 1932 |
| Price, Elizabeth | 6 | 6 September 1846 | 15 December 1928 |
| Price, John Howell | 38 | 16 December 1814 | 11 July 1876 |
| Price, Rachel | 36 | 11 September 1816 | 30 October 1869 |
| Price, Richard | 17 | 23 June 1835 | 14 December 1908 |
| Price, Sarah | 14 | 1 April 1839 | 20 June 1920 |
| Rees, Elizabeth | 25 | 16 May 1828 | 12 December 1917 |
| Rees, John | 20 | 6 February 1833 | 6 February 1919 |
| Richards, Elizabeth Mary | Infant | 12 April 1853 | 19 September 1853 |
| Richards, John | 2 | 4 April 1851 | 15 September 1853 |
| Richards, John T. | 28 | 20 October 1824 | 7 January 1905 |
| Richards, Martha | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Richards, Martha | 35 | 8 June 1817 | 1 June 1896 |
| Salkield, Benjamin | 42 | 7 March 1811 | 5 December 1875 |
| Salkield, Sarah | 9 | 11 May 1844 | 7 November 1895 |
| Salkield, William | 12 | 17 January 1841 | 1 September 1913 |
| Taylor, Ann | 50 | 26 July 1802 | Unknown |
| Tuckett, Henry | 22 | 24 September 1830 | 30 January 1923 |
| Tuckett, Henry Augustus | Infant | 22 December 1852 | 16 January 1918 |
| Tuckett, Mercy Ellen | 20 | 26 March 1833 | 18 January 1863 |
| Westwood, David | 26 | 3 August 1826 | 10 October 1903 |
| Westwood, Joseph Moroni | 9 | 21 January 1844 | 3 March 1929 |
| Westwood, Matilda | 24 | 24 February 1829 | 23 January 1909 |
| Westwood, Philip | 28 | 1 September 1824 | 20 June 1868 |
| Westwood, Phoebe Ellen | 17 | 29 April 1836 | 11 September 1911 |
| Westwood, Temperance | 13 | 19 August 1839 | 21 September 1922 |
| Wilkinson, Martha | 51 | 2 July 1801 | 3 June 1880 |
| Williams, Benjamin | 29 | 10 November 1823 | 28 February 1905 |
| Williams, Mary | 29 | November 1825 | 5 April 1911 |
| Williams, Mary Watkins | 1 | 16 May 1852 | 24 February 1938 |