• It is not clear why the Mormon Migration Database passenger list states that Christian "did not go," when he was listed on the company manifest and the ship manifest on Ancestry.com.

William B. Preston Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 47

Sources

• 1900 United States Federal Census
• “Captain William B. Preston Company (first ox train), manifest, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News, 17 August 1864, 369.
• New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 391.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.