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1847–1868

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Birth Date
14 March 1819
Death Date
17 March 1875
Gender
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Seth Millington Blair Sr.

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  • In 1850, Seth partnered with Thomas S. Williams to freight merchandise and transport his family from Council Bluffs to Salt Lake.

    Seth served as captain of the Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company in 1855. Along the journey, Seth became ill and was succeeded by Edward Stevenson.

    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.

Thomas S. Williams/Seth M. Blair Freight Train (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 31
  • Company Captain
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Cornelia Jane Blair (Age: 30)
  • Seth Millington Blair Jr. (Age: 6)
  • Ellen Cornelia Blair (Age: 3)
  • Preston Alonzo Blair (Age: 1)

Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company (1855)

  • Age at Departure: 36
  • Company Captain

Rescue Companies (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 37

Sources

  • Blair, Seth Millington, Reminiscences and journals, 1851-1868, vol. 2, 104-34.
  • Earl, Sylvester Henry, Autobiographical sketch, 8.
  • Edward Wallace East, Biographical information relating to Mormon pioneer overland travel database, 2003-2017.
  • Emigrating journal, 1855 June-September in Edward Stevenson collection, 1849-1922, 1-39.
  • Greer, Americus Vespuccius, [Diary], in Eliza M. Wakefield, comp., A Tribute to Thomas Lacy Greer [1953], [2].
  • Hansen, Peter Olsen, Journal [ca. 1876], 121-24.
  • Martin Slack diary, 1851-1858, 25.
  • Seth M. Blair papers, 1851-1868, Reminiscence and journal, 1876, 1851-1868, 5-6.
  • Seth Millington Blair Journal, p. 40.
  • Stevenson, Edward, Diary, in Edward Stevenson, Collection, 1849-1922, reel 1, fd. 2, vol. 5, 1-9.
  • Sylvester H. Earl diary, 1852-1856, 6-8.
  • William B. Wright collection, 1852-1951.