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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        11 September 1818
        Death Date
        2 March 1874
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        William Hyde

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        • 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

        Traveled with

        • Elizabeth Howe Hyde (Age: 35)
        • Jane Elizabeth Hyde (Age: 6)
        • William Hyde (Age: 2)
        • Mary Lucretia Hyde (Age: Infant)

        William Hyde Company (1864)

        • Age at Departure: 45
        • Company Captain

        Sources

        • 1850 Utah Census.
        • "Arrived," Salt Lake Daily Telegraph , 27 Oct. 1864, 3.
        • "Correspondence. Obituary of William Hyde," Deseret Evening News , 12 Mar. 1874, 4.
        • Elizabeth H. Hyde life sketch in Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, 6-7.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • Fletcher, Charles Eugene, Autobiography, 1911, 145-52.
        • Hyde, William, William Hyde journal, circa 1868-1873, fd. 1, 186-88.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 1.
        • Levi W. Hancock papers, 1832-1878, Journal, 1846 September-1847 October.
        • Lewis, Jane Sarah Goody, Autobiography of Jane Goody Lewis, 2. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)
        • "List of Immigrants," Deseret News, 19 October 1864, 2.
        • McNiel, William, Autobiography, in Marjorie Scott Peterson, McNiel family information.
        • Phillips, Edward, Autobiographical sketch, in Mormon biographical sketches collection [ca. 1900-1975], reel 10, box 13, fd. 2, item 9, 3.
        • Reuben Miller journals, 1848-1849, Journal, 1849 June-September.
        • Reuben Miller letter to Brigham Young, 9 September 1849.
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 180.
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
        • Samuel Gully letter to Brigham Young, 3 July 1849.
        • Seymour, Charles, Reminiscences, 127-28.
        • Smith, Jesse N., Autobiography and journal, 1855 Oct-1906 Apr., 212-18.
        • Smith, John Lyman, Diary in John Lyman Smith, Papers, 1845-1875, vol. 2, 102-117.
        • Sutton, James T., Reminiscences, 2-4. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)
        • Thomas Atkin autobiography, circa 1901, 5-7.
        • William Hyde journal, circa 1868-1873.