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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 December 1837
Death Date
18 April 1916
Gender
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Richard Henwood

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Edmund Ellsworth Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 18

Traveled with

  • John Henwood (Age: 47)
  • Elizabeth Henwood (Age: 42)
  • Elizabeth Tregenna Gailey (Age: 15)

Sources

  • 1900 Utah Census.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Edmund Ellsworth Emigrating Company papers, 1856, Folder contents: (1) Journal, 1856 June-September.
  • Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
  • Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 September 1856, 30.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 196.