• Joseph initially came to the Valley with his family in 1848. Several years later, he went out on the trail again to help rescue the Saints stranded on the plains of Wyoming the winter of 1856.

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 13

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 21

Sources

• 1900 Idaho Census.
• Eastern Idaho Death Records Database.
• Find a Grave
• First 100, report, 1848 June.
• Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937
• Spencer, Claudius to Brigham Young, 12 November 1856. Brigham Young office files 1832-1878, General Incoming Correspondence.