• He left the company and returned to Fort Laramie on 12 October.  In "Faithful Stewards--the life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit" he is referred to as "George" Edwick.

  He sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.

   

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 17

Sources

• "Died," Deseret News, 17 November 1858, 159.
• Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, 1856 October-December, 9 November 1856, 19.
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856," Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 5 January 1908.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 (No. 1)," Salt Lake Herald, 15 December 1907, 5.
• Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914.
• Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 202.
• "Synopsis of the Fourth Hand Cart Company's Trip from England to G.S.L. City in 1856." In Historian's Office history of the Church, 1839-circa 1882, 9 November 1856, 966-83.