• The Hunt family traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Aaron Johnson Company in 1850.  The Hunt family included Daniel Durham and his wife Susan Davis, and Daniel’s children from his first wife: John Alexander, James Wiseman, Levi Bunyan, Benoni Smith, Daniel Whitmore, and Nancy Johanna Penelope. 

  At the end of a mission, John Alexander returned home as Captain of the John A. Hunt Company in 1856.

Aaron Johnson Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 20

John A. Hunt Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 26
• Company Captain

Sources

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