• Donations
    • Leader and Clerk Resources
    • Directory and Map
    • Calendar
    • Missionary Portal
    • Find a Church
    All Tools
        • Church History
        • Publications
          • Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
          • Prophets of the Restoration
          • Global Histories
          • Revelations in Context
          • Women of Conviction
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Church Historian's Press
          • More
        • Visit
          • Church History Museum
          • Historic Sites
          • Church History Library
        • Research
          • Church History Catalog
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database
          • Treasures of the Collection
          • Pioneer Resources
        • Quick Links
          • Church History Library
          • Church History Museum
          • Church Historic Sites
          • Church History Catalog
          • Church Historian’s Press
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database

        Pioneer Database

        1847–1868

        Home Companies Switch to Keyword Search
        Samuel A. Woolley in the 1890s

        Samuel A. Woolley in the 1890s

        Birth Date
        11 September 1825
        Death Date
        23 March 1900
        Gender
        Male
        Family Search logo

        View this Person on FamilySearch

        Samuel Amos Woolley

        Facebook Twitter Print Mail
        Find this person in FamilySearch
        • 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

        Sources

        • Bitton, Ronald Davis, Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies [1977], p. 394
        • Brief Biography of Rachel Emma Woolley Simmons, 11-14.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
        • "Emigrants for Utah," Deseret News, 6 August 1856, 8.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 22 September 1861, 2.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 9.
        • Lindholm, Carl Eric, Transcription of diary, 11. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)
        • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
        • Nielsen, Peter, Journal, 1854 June-1867 Mar., 358-63.
        • Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 5, 49.
        • Salt Lake City Property Index.
        • Samuel A. Woolley papers, 1846-1899, Volume 6, 213-44 and Volume 7, 1-15.
        • Tripp, Enoch B, Autobiography, in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Collection, 1828-1963, reel 17, item 13, 19.
        • Wilcox, Matilda Neilson, Autobiographical sketch.
        • William Carruth autobiography and journal, 1856-1863, 17-19, 26.
        • Woolley, Samuel Amos, Diaries, 1846-1899, reel #1, box 1, fd. 3, vol. 9.