- Birth Date
- 1 February 1831
- Death Date
- 9 July 1905
- Gender
- Male
George Hanson
Edmund Ellsworth Company (1856)
- Age at Departure: 25
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Sources
- Ann Ham Hickenlooper, Diary of Ann Ham Hickenlooper, wife of William Hanney Hickenlooper, crossed the plains with the first handcart co., arrived in Salt Lake City 26. Sept., 1856 and record of work done for the dead (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1957).
- Edmund Ellsworth Emigrating Company papers, 1856, Folder contents: (1) Journal, 1856 June-September.
- "Emigrants for Utah," Deseret News, 6 August 1856, 8.
- Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6.
- Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7.
- Hanson, Frances Hiley Booth, Autobiography 1909, [2-3].
- Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 September 1856, 26.
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 239.
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 156.
- Saints By Sea: Latter-Day Saint Immigration to America
- "The Late George Hanson," Deseret Evening News , 3 Aug. 1905, 5.
- Utah Death Certificates.