• David initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Brigham Young Pioneer Company in 1847 and was part of the 8th Company of Ten led by Seth Taft.

  In 1848, he traveled again to the Valley with the Brigham Young Company.

  He served a mission in the British Isles 1853-1856 and sailed back to America on the ship S. Curling.  At the end of a mission, David traveled home with the Edward Bunker Company in 1856.  He was a counselor to Captain Edward Bunker, and was a Captain of a Hundred. 

  His birth date and death date are confirmed by his gravestone and by Salt Lake County death records.

Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 30

Brigham Young Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 31
• Head of Household

Edward Bunker Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 39

Sources

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