• See census and church records for his travel in 1849. He was one of the passengers on the ship Brooklyn. He then traveled to Utah from California.

  In 1854 he was a captain of 50 in the James Brown Company.

Thomas Rhoades Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 25

James Brown Company (1854)

• Age at Departure: 30
• Died en Route

Sources

• Carroll, Charles Negus, Life sketch, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 2, item 6, 7-8.
• Hezekiah Mitchell journal, 1854 June-September.
• Keeler, Eliza Shelton, Autobiography and journal, [ca. 1886-1898], 10-12.
• Pratt, Orson, to Brigham Young, 29 June 1854, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 54, box 41, fd. 2.
• Thomas Rhoades company roster, 1849 July 14.