Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 7 March 1804
- Death Date
- 27 October 1877
- Gender
- Male
John Somers Higbee
John traveled with the Brigham Young Pioneer Company, serving as a captain of ten, until it reached the upper crossing of the Platte River. Here he remained to help ferry immigrants across until the Smoot-Wallace Company and his family arrived. He then joined them and completed the journey to the Salt Lake Valley.
A few years later, he served a mission and returned to America in 1852 on the ship Kennebec. He assisted as a captain of the John S. Higbee/James Way Bay Company upon his return trip to Salt Lake.
Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)
- Age at Departure: 43
Abraham O. Smoot - George B. Wallace Company (1847)
- Age at Departure: 43
- Head of Household
Traveled with
John S. Higbee/James W. Bay Company (1852)
- Age at Departure: 48
- Company Captain
- Head of Household
Traveled with
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