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1847–1868

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Birth Date
17 February 1839
Death Date
22 January 1911
Gender
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Franklin Wheeler Young

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Jedediah M. Grant/Joseph B. Noble Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 8

Traveled with

  • Joseph Watson Young (Age: 19)
  • John Ray Young (Age: 10)

Eli Whipple Company (1858)

  • Age at Departure: 19
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • John Ray Young (Age: 20)

Sources

  • Bell, Eli, Diaries, 1854-[1864], vol. 4.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 28.
  • "Orangeville.  Siege of Smallpox Now Lifted—Pioneers Ill," Deseret News, 10 April 1907, 3.
  • “Pioneer of Many Localities Dead," Emery County Progress, 28 Jan. 1911, 1.
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.
  • Young, Franklin Wheeler, Diary, p. 27
  • Young, Franklin Wheeler, Young family genealogy [ca. 1889-1899], fd. 1, 4-6.
  • Young, John R., Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer, 1847 [1920], 56, 60-61.