• Mumford first came to the Valley in 1849. However, several years later, he served as captain of of an out-and-back company in 1868.

Ezra T. Benson Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 41

Edward T. Mumford Company (1868)

• Age at Departure: 60
• Company Captain

Sources

• Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Gillespie, John, to Brigham Young, 8 Sept. 1868, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 44, box 32, fd. 15.
• "Immigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 28 September 1868.
• "Immigration of 1868," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 28 September 1868, 3.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 12D.
• Mumford, E. T., to Brigham Young, 11 Sep. 1868, in Brigham Young, Office Files 1832-1878, reel 44, box 32, fd. 18.
• "Names of Passengers in Captain Mumford's Train," Deseret News, 23 September 1868, 1.
• "The Immigration," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 24 September 1868, 2.
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.