Samuel A. Woolley in the 1890s

    Samuel A. Woolley in the 1890s

    Birth Date
    11 September 1825
    Death Date
    23 March 1900
    Gender
    Male

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    Samuel Amos Woolley

    • Samuel initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young Company in 1848 with his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Mehring, according to Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons’ Biography.  He traveled with his brother, Edwin Dilworth and his wife Mary Wickersham, and their children, Rachel Emma, Franklin Benjamin, and Mary Louisa.  Mary Louisa was born on July the fifth, while the company was camped at Goose Creek.

      When the family made it to the Salt Lake Valley, they ate with Samuel’s brother, John Mills Woolley, who had traveled to the Salt Lake Valley the year before with the Abraham O. Smoot/George B. Wallace Company in 1847, according to Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons’ Biography. 

      In 1856, at the end of a mission to India, Samuel traveled home with the Philemon C. Merrill Company as captain of the guard, according to Amos’ diary.   

      In 1861, he again traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as Captain of the Samuel A. Woolley Company, according to his diary.

    Brigham Young Company (1848)

    • Age at Departure: 22

    Philemon C. Merrill Company (1856)

    • Age at Departure: 30
    • Returning Missionary

    Samuel A. Woolley Company (1861)

    • Age at Departure: 35
    • Company Captain

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