• His arrival in Utah is confirmed by his rebaptism which took place 8 August 1847 in Salt Lake City.

  His rebaptism record in the Salt Lake Stake Record of Members lists his name as "Thomas Cairns." 

Company Unknown (1847)

• Age at Departure: 36

Sources

• Black, Susan Easton. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848 (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, [1984-1988]).
• Bullock, Thomas, The Pioneer Camp of the Saints:  The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock, ed. Will Bagley [1997], 312.
• Early Church Information File
• Index to LDS Members in Early Iowa 1839-1860 [electronic database].
• Nauvoo Community Project
• Salt Lake Stake Record of Members, 1848-1917.