• James and his wife Mary came from England in 1864 on the ship Monarch of the Sea.  He is listed with other people by mistake.

  An alternate spelling is in Journal History. He was from Basingstoke, England. The company he traveled with was also noted in local church financial records.

  The surname is spelled "Stephens" on the 1870 Utah census.

John Riggs Murdock Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 37
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census, Weber County.
• “Captain John R. Murdock Company (first mule train), manifests, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 10)
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 August 1864, 1A.
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 August 1864, 361.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 398.
• Utah Death Certificates.