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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        11 March 1807
        Death Date
        3 September 1849
        Gender
        Male
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        Wilson Gardner Perkins

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        • Captain of Ten

        Brigham Young Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 41
        • Head of Household

        Traveled with

        • Diana Perkins (Age: 36)
        • William Anderson Perkins (Age: 17)
        • James Monroe Perkins (Age: 16)
        • Marion Columbus Perkins (Age: 12)
        • Elizabeth Jane Perkins (Age: 11)
        • Mary Ann Perkins (Age: 8)
        • Harvey Huston Perkins (Age: 7)
        • Jasper Newton Perkins (Age: 2)

        Sources

        • A Mormon chronicle: the Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks (1955), 1:30-79.
        • Alexander Neibaur journal, 1841 February-1862 April, 26-38.
        • Elizabeth Jane Perkins Belcher in On to the Valley (1957) by Anson G. Perkins.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
        • Job Smith autobiography, circa 1902, 15-16.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 2.
        • Lorenzo Brown reminiscences and diaries, 1856-1900, Volume 1, 37-53.
        • Richard Ballantyne papers, 1848-1867, 1895, Journal, 1848 May-August.
        • Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1848 May-September.