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1847–1868

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23 March 1820
Death Date
13 December 1910
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Levi Savage Jr.

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  • Levi Jr. joined the Mormon Battalion and in 1847, he traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company. 

    At the end of a mission, Levi traveled home with the James G. Willie Company in 1856.  He was the Captain of the 2nd hundred.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 27

James G. Willie Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 36

Sources

  • Cantwell, James Sherlock, Autobiography, reel 3, item 30, 1-3.
  • Dixon, Loleta Wiscombe, [Willie Handcart Company and William James].
  • George Cunningham journal, 1876; 1885 August-1886 January, Reminiscences, 1876, 2-5.
  • Goodwin, Betsey Smith, "The Tired Mother: Pioneer Recollections," Improvement Era, July 1919, 775-81.
  • "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
  • James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
  • James Pace papers, 1846-1861, Diary, 1846 July-1847 October, 53-66.
  • John Ahmanson, Secret History: a Translation of Vor Tid Muhamed, translated by Gleason L Archer (1984), 28-35.
  • John Chislett "Narrative" in The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons by Thomas B. H. Stenhouse (1873), 313-32.
  • 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.
  • Levi Savage journal, 1855 March-1858 October.
  • Linford, Amasa Christian, [Autobiography], in James Henry Linford, Autobiography of James Henry Linford [1919], 63-67.
  • Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
  • Mary Burton Shrewsbury (pseudonym), "Reminiscence" in "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism by Fanny W. Stenhouse (1874), 206-36.  According to Ron Walker, John Chislett is actual author. See: Journal of Mormon History 1 (1974): 64.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • "Obituary," Deseret Evening News , 24 Dec. 1910, 5.
  • Peder Madsen diary, 1856 April-September translated by Don H. Smith, 19-29.
  • Rowley, Ann Jewell, [Autobiography], in James Albert Jones, comp., Some Early Pioneers of Huntington, Utah and Surrounding Area (1980), 244-46.
  • "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.
  • William Woodward journal in Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956.
  • William Woodward letter to Joseph F. Smith, 1907, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter in Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956.
  • Woodward, W., to Albert Jones, Handcart Veterans Association, 12 Sep. 1906. Handcart Veterans Association, Scrapbook, 1906-1914, fd. 2.
  • Woodward, William, to Wilford Woodruff, 17 Feb. 1857, in [Papers and rosters relating to emigration companies] 1846-1860s.