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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        14 February 1833
        Death Date
        11 July 1899
        Gender
        Male
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        John Johnson

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        • His surname was listed as "Valdby" on the Mormon Migration ship manifest, but as "Jensen," in the "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," collection on Ancestry.com. and his name is listed "Jens Jensen" on the company manifest.

        William B. Preston Company (1864)

        • Age at Departure: 31
        • Head of Household

        Traveled with

        • Louisa Johnson (Age: 34)
        • Josephine Wilhelmine Johnson (Age: 4)
        • Olivia Sophia Johnson (Age: 2)

        Sources

        • “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
        • Corless, Josephine Wilhelmine Johnson, [Autobiographical sketch], in Jane Jennings Eldredge, "Records and Historical Sketches of Residents of Davis County, Utah," 9 vols. (1916), 5:62.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
        • New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
        • Sweden, Baptisms, 1611-1920.
        • Utah, Davis County, death records, 1898-1966 Death register, 1898-1904