• The Dana family initially traveled  to the Salt Lake Valley with the James Pace Company in 1850.  The family included Charles Dana and Margaret Kennedy, and their children Marrietta Hunzeford Dana Kinglsey and her husband Henry, Charles Carrol, Rosell Root, and George Carlos, and Charles Dana’s second wife, Susan Luce Thomas, and her sons Martin Washburn Thomas and James Moroni Thomas.

  Margaret died en route and her grave is mention in the Hunter/Campbell letter to Brigham Young.

  In 1857, at the end of a mission, Charles Root traveled home with the Jesse B. Martin Company as the Captain of the 1^st Ten.   

James Pace Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 48

Jesse B. Martin Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 55

Sources

• "Arrival and Latest News," Deseret News [Weekly], 19 Aug. 1857, 188.
• Dana, Charles Root, Autobiography, 1859, 171-76.
• Dana, Charles Root, Autobiography 1859, fd. 3, 82-86.
• Duke, Jonathan Oldham, Reminiscences and diary, 1850 June-1857 July, 12-20.
• Jesse B. Martin journals, 1853-1857.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 9.
• McQuarrie, Lillie Mikkelsen, [Biographical sketch of Robert McQuarrie, 1962], 2-3.
• McQuarrie, Robert, Journals, 1854-1917, vol. 1, 6-15.
• Odekirk, Margaret Elizabeth Dana, [Life Sketch], "Genealogical Surveys of L.D.S. Members," 35 vols., 22:35.
• Redd, John Hardison, Diary 1850 June-Aug.