- Birth Date
- 5 February 1823
- Death Date
- 5 January 1867
- Gender
- Male
John Thomas Geary
The Geary family traveled with the 1853 John Brown Company from Keokuk, Iowa to Council Bluffs, where they dropped out due to illness. In 1856, they began their journey across the plains again with the James Willie handcart company. They joined with Hodgetts company at Fort Laramie.
John Brown Company (1853)
- Age at Departure: 30
- Head of Household
Traveled with
James G. Willie Company (1856)
- Age at Departure: 33
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Sources
- 1860 Utah Census, Iron County.
- "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
- James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
- Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
- Nichols, Kaye Page, "John Thomas Geary, Sophia Fryer," p. 15.
- Richard Fryer, Biographical information relating to Mormon pioneer overland travel database, 2003-2017.
- "Shot," Deseret News, 2 January 1867, 5.
- Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.