• William traveled to Utah as a returning Mormon Battalion veteran in the Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company in 1847. He then returned to Iowa to collect his family and made the trip again with the Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company in 1849. Finally, in 1864, William, as captain of the William Hyde Company traveled from Nebraska to Utah once more.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 28

Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 30
• Head of Household

William Hyde Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 45
• Company Captain

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
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