• John and his mother arrived in New York on 16 June 1860 via the ship William Tapscott. His mother confirms in her journal that they continued their overland journey as part of the 1860 Joseph Young Freight Train.

  Johns father and siblings followed a couple years later.

Joseph W. Young Freight Train (1860)

• Age at Departure: 11

Sources

• Find a Grave (Website)
• Lee, Ellen Tadwell, Autobiography and journal 1868 Jan. -1889 Sept.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America