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1847–1868

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Birth Date
14 June 1821
Death Date
8 November 1894
Gender
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Levi Bird Hammon

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  • He initially traveled to the Valley in 1849. At some point, he returned to Winter Quarters to collect his family. They crossed the plains together in 1851. Levi served as a captain of ten in that company.

Allen Taylor Company (1849)

  • Age at Departure: 28

James W. Cummings Company (1851)

  • Age at Departure: 30
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Polly Chapman Hammon (Age: 30)
  • Elizabeth Magdalena Hammon (Age: 8)
  • Saloma Leanner Prescott Hammon (Age: 6)
  • Martha Jane Hammon (Age: 4)
  • Levi Byram Hammon (Age: 1)
  • Polly Chapman Hammon (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • Alfred Cordon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September.
  • "Allen Taylor's 100, first 50, report, 1849 September 3." In Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849. (MS 14290, Reel 3, Box 2, Folder 40)
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1851, 2.
  • Levi Hammon Emigrating Company journal, 1851 June-September.
  • Martha M. Morgan, A Trip Across the Plains in the Year 1849 with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1983), 7-20.
  • McAllister, J[ohn] D[aniel] T[hompson], Journals, reel 1, vol. 1, p. 2-3
  • "Reminiscences, 1851-1853." In John D. T. McAllister journals 1851-1906. (MS 1257, Reel 1, Box 1, Folder 1), 6-7.