• Jefferson Copeland is documented in this company as traveling with his wife and two children. Elias and Juletta were the only two children who would have been left in the Copeland household at this time so it is assumed they were the two children with Jefferson and Louisa.

  The entire family returned to Iowa after only a short stay in the Valley.

Alvus H. Patterson Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 17

Sources

• A. H. Patterson Emigrating Company, Journal, 1863 June-Sept.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 September 1863, 2.
• Zyderlaan, Martin, Camp journal, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 Sept. 1863, 1-12.