• Son of Erastus and Jerusha Avery. He was included on the company roster. His birth and death dates are confirmed by the dates recorded on his death certificate.

John Hindley Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 16

Sources

• 1900 Utah Census.
• “1st Company of 50 report, 1855.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 36)
• Autobiography of Jemima E. Stookey written by her at Logan, Utah, in 1891 transcribed by Gwenevere Anderson Stookey and Rondo W. Anderson (Clover Utah, 1971), 19-22.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Utah Death Certificates.  
• Warnick, Irvin Leroy, Warnick, Irvin Leroy, Our Own Sevier: A Comprehensive Centennial Volume, Sevier County, Utah, 1865-1965 232.