• George, his wife Sarah, children Lydia and George H. came from England in 1850 on the ship Argo.

  George made several trips across the plains. His initial emigration was with the William Field Company in 1854. After staying in Salt Lake City for a time, he moved his family to California in 1855. Then he decided to move the family back to St. Louis. They sailed from San Francisco, crossed the isthmus of Panama, ported at Cuba, and arrived in New Orleans in the fall of 1856. After running a number of stores in St. Louis for a number of years, he left his business in the care of his son-in-law, George A. Alder, and attempted to take the rest of his family to Salt Lake in the John D. Chase company in 1864. However, due to a disagreement that he had with his teamsters, they did not complete the journey and returned to St. Louis. Then three years later, he captained his own company back to the Salt Lake Valley.

William Field Company (1854)

• Age at Departure: 32
• Head of Household

John D. Chase Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 41
• Head of Household

George Dunford Company (1867)

• Age at Departure: 44
• Company Captain
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census, Salt Lake County.
• Alder, Lydia D., "Reminiscences of the Pioneers of 1854," Improvement Era, July 1908, 708-13.
• Alder, Lydia D., "The Massacre at Fort Laramie," Improvement Era, June 1909, 636-38.
• Alder, Lydia D., Reminiscences. in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 Sept. 1867, 1-2.
• “Captain John D. Chase Company (independent), passenger list, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 9)
• Dunford, George. Reminiscences and journal.
• Dunford, Moroni, Reminiscences and journals, 18-21.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Groo, Isaac, Diary, 1854 Apr.-[Sept].  MS 1003 fd 2.
• Improvement Era , July 1908, 710.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
• Utah, Early Mormon Missionary Database
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.