• The Ashby family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young Company in 1848.  The Ashby family included Susan Hammond Ashby Noble and her children Benjamin, Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby Snow (wife of Erastus Snow), Harriett Maria, Nathaniel, Richard Hammond, William Hardin, Mary Jane, Emma Smith, and John Jefford.

  At the end of a mission to England, Benjamin returned home with the Israel Evans Company in 1857.  He served as assistant Captain.

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 19

Israel Evans Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 28

Sources

• "Arrival and Latest News," Deseret News [Weekly], 19 Aug. 1857, 188.
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