• The Groo family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the William Field Company in 1854.  The Groo family included Isaac and Sarah Elizabeth Gillett, and their children, George Washington, Byron, and Orson Hyde.  Also in the company was Sarah’s family, the Gilletts.

  In 1850, the Gilletts lived in Neversink, Sullivan County, New York, according to the 1850 census.  The Gillett family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the William Field Company in 1854.  The Gillett family included Horace and Sarah Collins Moore, and their children, John Acley, Granville, Collins Moore, Carlos Newton, and Sarah Elizabeth and her family.  Horace, a captain of ten, died en route from cholera, on 26 June, according to Newton Tuttle’s journal.

William Field Company (1854)

• Age at Departure: 27

Sources

• Groo, Isaac, Diary, 1854 Apr.-[Sept].  MS 1003 fd 2.