• Surname is spelled "Hostler" on Deseret News roster. His death date is confirmed by his death certificate.  Although his death certificate and find a grave has his birth date as 1874 his birth registration has his birth date as 1862 and he was on the 1866 ship Caroline manifest as 3 years old. He was 17 years old in the 1880 Mona, Juab, Utah census.

Samuel D. White Company (1866)

• Age at Departure: 3

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• "Capt. Samuel D. White's Train," Deseret News, 16 August 1866, 1.
• England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 304.