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1847–1868

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23 March 1802
Death Date
24 September 1882
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Joel Hills Johnson

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  • The Johnson Family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Willard Richards Company in 1848.  The Johnson family included Joel Hill and his wives and children. Also traveling in the company was Joel’s brother Benjamin Franklin and his wives and children. According the Camp of Israel schedules and reports, his sister-in-law, Flora Clarinda Gleason (Johnson) and her daughter, Huetta Clarinda (both listed as Clarinda "Gleseon" on the reports), were assigned to and traveled in Joel's wagon. As such, they are grouped with Joel and his family in the database. 

    In 1860, he went to help more of the Saints travel west.

Willard Richards Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 46
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Susan Johnson (Age: 35)
  • Flora Clarinda Johnson (Age: 28)
  • Janette Johnson (Age: 20)
  • Sixtus Ellis Johnson (Age: 18)
  • Sariah Anna Johnson (Age: 16)
  • Nephi Johnson (Age: 14)
  • Seth Johnson Sr. (Age: 9)
  • Julia Anna Johnson (Age: 1)
  • Huetta Clarinda Johnson (Age: 1)

William Budge Company (1860)

  • Age at Departure: 58

Sources

  • Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life's Review (Independence: Zion's Printing & Publ. Co., 1947), 121-23.
  • Budge, William, to George Q. Cannon, 3 Aug. 1860, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 37, box 27, fd. 9.
  • Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
  • Joel Hills Johnson, "A Journal or sketch of the life of Joel H. Johnson (ca. 1857)-1859" in Cache Valley historical material, circa 1955, 20.
  • Johnson, Joel H., Autobiographical sketch, in St. George Stake, High Priest Quorum Genealogical Records, 1872-1906, reel 6039, 56, in Record of Members Collection 1836-1970.
  • Johnson, Joel Hills, [Autobiography], in A Voice From the Mountains: Life and Works of Joel Hills Johnson [1982], 134-38.
  • Johnson, Joel Hills, Reminiscences and journals, 1835-1882, in Library of Congress, Collection of Mormon diaries [1935-1938], reel 12, item 12, 21-29.
  • Johnson, Joel Hills, Reminiscences and journals, 1835-1882, reel 1, fd. 2, 27-33.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 19.
  • Nephi Johnson in A Voice From the Mountains: Life and Works of Joel Hills Johnson (1982), 250.
  • Phinehas Richards, Diary, 1837 April-1871 March, Phinehas Richards papers, 1837-1874 in Richards family collection, 1837-1961.
  • Pioneer Pathways 5 (2002): 96
  • Pioneer emigration list 1847-1848, 118, in Docket book 1844 Feb.-1845 May.
  • Seth E. Johnson autobiographical sketch, circa 1922.