• The Secrist family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Edward Hunter/Jacob Foutz Company in 1847.  The family consisted of Jacob Foutz Secrist and Anna Eliza Logan, and their daughter Louisa. 

  At the end of a mission to Germany, Jacob traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as Captain of the Jacob F. Secrist/Noah T. Guymon Company in 1855.  He died of Cholera en route on 2 July, on Ketchum’s Creek, between Kearney and Leavenworth.  A tin coffin was made with the intention of bringing his remains to the Valley.  However, it was insufficient, and he was buried on 4 July.

Edward Hunter/Jacob Foutz Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 28
• Head of Household

Jacob F. Secrist/Noah T. Guymon Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 36
• Company Captain
• Died en Route

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• 2nd Company of 50 reports, 1855 May 31.
• Blair, Seth Millington, Reminiscences and journals, 1851-1868, vol. 2, 104-34.
• Charles Smith reminiscences and diary, 1842 March-1905 June, 31-42, 333.
• "Deaths of Missionaries," Deseret News, 8 August 1855, 173.
• Edward Hunter and Jacob Foutz letter to Brigham Young in Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, 17 August 1847, 5-6.
• Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913).
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• Johnson, Hans I. (Mrs.) [Inger K.], Autobiography [1909], 11-12.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 23.
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