• Thomas initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Richard Ballantyne Company in 1855. However, he later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming.

Richard Ballantyne Company (1855)

• Age at Departure: 25

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 26

Sources

• “4th Company of 50 report, 1855 June.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 39)
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "Immigration List," Deseret News, 12 September 1855, 214.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 86.
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• Utah Death Certificates.