• The Geary family traveled with the 1853 John Brown Company from Keokuk, Iowa to Council Bluffs, where they dropped out due to illness. In 1856, they began their journey across the plains again with the James Willie handcart company. They joined with Hodgetts company at Fort Laramie.

John Brown Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: Infant

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 3

Sources

• Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
• "Obituaries," Deseret News , 21 Aug. 1934, 17.
• Richard Fryer, Biographical information relating to Mormon pioneer overland travel database, 2003-2017.