• George traveled to Utah as part of the Hunt company. His brother Edmund also traveled in the Hunt company with his wife Eliza. His birth date and death date are confirmed by his death certificate.

John A. Hunt Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• Brooks, George Finley, Autobiographical sketch, in Biographical sketches 1891- , reel 9, box 9, fd. 8, item 22.
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
• "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
• “John A. Hunt Company report, 1856.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1856-1862. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 49)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 December 1856, 11.
• Spicer, William to S. S. Jones, Handcart Veterans Association, ca. 1906. Handcart Veterans Association, Scrapbook, 1906-1914, fd. 2.
• Utah Death Certificates.