• Evidence from census and genealogical records proves the Hunt family traveled to Utah in 1861.

Ira Reed Company (1861)

• Age at Departure: 59

Sources

• 1860 New York Census
• Orson F. Whitey, History of Utah: in Four Volumes, Volume 4 (Salt Lake City, Utah: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Publishers, 1904), 410-411.
• Portrait, Genealogical and Biographical Record of the State of Utah (Chicago: National Historical Record Co., 1902,) 177.
• William H. Miles diary, 1861 July-August and 1862 May-July, fd. 2, 8A-8G.