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1847–1868

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Birth Date
8 November 1808
Death Date
27 August 1860
Gender
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Samuel Hoffman

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  • Came from Switzerland with his wife, Ursula, on the ship Underwriter in 1860. A letter from the company captain to Brigham Young indicates he died by eating bad meat.

James Darling Ross Company (1860)

  • Age at Departure: 51
  • Head of Household
  • Died en Route

Traveled with

  • Anna Ursula Hoffman (Age: 50)

Sources

  • Emigration list for Spring, 1860.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1860,  24.
  • Ross, J.D., to Brigham Young, 1 Sept. 1860. Brigham Young office files 1832-1878, General Incoming Correspondence, reel 38, box 27, fd. 18.
  • "The Immigration," Deseret News, 15 August 1860, 189.