• The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 16
• Died en Route

Sources

• Hurren, Emma and Gretta Camp. "Life Sketch of My Grandmother, Emma Hurren Woolf."
• James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 November 1856, 19.
• Levi Savage journal, 1855 March-1858 October.
• 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. 204.
• Reeder, Adolph Madsen, Writings [ca. 1953].
• Reeder, Robert, History of Robert Reeder, 2-6. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)