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1847–1868

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Birth Date
3 April 1805
Death Date
5 January 1887
Gender
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John Shields

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  • John, his wife Primrose and family traveled to America on the ship Hartley arriving in New Orleans 28 April 1849.

Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 47
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Primrose Shields (Age: 47)
  • Robert Cunningham Shields (Age: 22)
  • Archibald Cunningham Shields (Age: 19)
  • Primrose Cunningham Shields (Age: 12)
  • John Cunningham Shields (Age: 8)

Sources

  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • 1860 Utah Census, Tooele County.
  • "3rd Company," Deseret News [Weekly], 18 September 1852, 2.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 18.
  • Lee, Primrose Shields, [Autobiographical sketch], in Pioneer Pathways [1998- ], 6:392.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.