• John initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Pioneer Company in 1847 as indicated in William Clayton’s 1847 diary.

  At the end of a mission, he traveled home in the Willard Richards Company in 1848 as indicated in Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.

  At the end of another mission, he traveled home in the Horace S. Eldredge Company in 1858 as indicated in Oscar Orlando Stoddard’s journal and Our Pioneer Heritage.

  At the end of another mission, he traveled home in the Horton D. Haight Company in 1863 as indicated in Harriet Richardson Todd’s reminiscences of William Richardson.

Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 28

Willard Richards Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 29
• Returning Missionary

Horace S. Eldredge Company (1858)

• Age at Departure: 39
• Returning Missionary

Horton D. Haight Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 44
• Returning Missionary

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Albert P. Rockwood journals, 1847-1853, Journal, 1847 April-July.
• Amasa M. Lyman collection, 1832-1877, Journal, 1847 April 8-September 10, 1-26 and 1-10.
• Book of the Pioneers, 1:15.
• Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
• Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• Missionary Record Index
• Oscar O. Stoddard journals and record book, 1856-1860; 1883.
• Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 2, 633.
• Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary, edited and compiled by William M. Egan (1917), 21-105.
• Richardson, William, Reminiscences, 42-53, in Harriet Richardson Todd, Histories of Joanna Fotheringham and William Richardson [ca. 1890-1910]; 2008.
• "The Utah Pioneers," Deseret Weekly, 25 August 1894, 294.
• Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1847 April-June.
• William Clayton diaries, 1846-1853, Folder contents: (2) Volume 2, 1847.