• John and his family crossed the Atlantic on the ship Falcon in 1853; he was a slater from Scotland.  His family received financial assistance for their journey from the Church Perpetual Emigrating Fund.  John was re-baptized on 2 December 1854 in the Salt Lake City 19th Ward.  In 1855 his name appears in the Public Works Account Books as a plasterer.  At the time of the 1856 Utah Territorial Census his family was still in the Salt Lake 19th Ward but by the time of the 1860 federal census they were in Crawford County, Missouri.

Appleton M. Harmon Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 32
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1856 Utah Census.
• 1860 Missouri census, Crawford County.
• 19th Ward, Record of Members (CR 375 8, reel 4709)
• “Appleton M. Harmon Company report, 1853.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 29)