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1847–1868

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19 September 1818
Death Date
2 July 1855
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Jacob Foutz Secrist

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  • 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

Traveled with

  • Ann Eliza Secrist (Age: 24)
  • Louisa Secrist (Age: Infant)

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 [Weekly], 8 Aug. 1855, 173.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • 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).
  • Hansen, Peter Olsen, Journal [ca. 1876], 121-24.
  • 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.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 September 1855, 1.
  • Neilson, Peter. Family record, 11.
  • Stevenson, Edward, Diary, in Edward Stevenson, Collection, 1849-1922, reel 1, fd. 2, vol. 5, 1-9.
  • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
  • William B. Wright collection, 1852-1951.