• The "Record of Deaths in Salt Lake City" notes his death date and states that he was taken to Pleasant Grove for burial. He was apparently buried in a family plot owned by a Nelson family and often is misidentified as Franklin T. Nelson.

  His birth and death dates are confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: Infant
• Born en Route

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• Find a Grave
• James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
• Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
• Record of Deaths in Salt Lake City, 1848-1890