• The Mitchell family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Heber C. Kimball Company in 1848.  Benjamin Thomas was a Captain of Ten.  The Mitchell family included Benjamin and his three wives Lovina Buckwalter, Lois Judd, and Caroline Conrad, and four children Benjamin Thomas, Sarah Jane, Emily, and  Joseph Smith.

  His middle name, Traceback, is show on the California Great Registers.

Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 12

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census, Davis County.
• California Great Registers, 1866-1910
• Nauvoo Community Project