• Winward initially traveled to the Valley in 1847 with his family. Howevever, Handcart Veterans Association records indicate that several years later, he was seen on the plains again, among those who rescued the handcart companies stranded in Wyoming in the winter of 1856.

Abraham O. Smoot/Samuel Russell Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 14

Rescue Companies (1856)

• Age at Departure: 23

Sources

• Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6. 
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 45.
• Patten, George to Albert Jones, Handcart Veterans Association, 22 September 1907. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook 1906-1914 fd 3.
• "Peter Winward's Death," The Salt Lake Herald , 3 June 1909, 7.