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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 October 1834
Death Date
27 January 1918
Gender
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Elisha Arnold Manning

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  • He was among the small group of men who remained behind at Devil's Gate until spring to guard the personal belongings of the emigrants who had been rescued.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 21

Sources

  • 1900 Utah Census.
  • California Death Index, 1905-1939.
  • California Great Registers, 1866-1910
  • Cooper, John. Statement, 10 October 1916.
  • Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890), 62-75.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
  • "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
  • Jaques, John, [Minutes of meeting at Devil's Gate, 9 November 1856], in John Jaques, Collection, 1846-1920.
  • Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856,  5.
  • W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.