• Donations
    • Leader and Clerk Resources
    • Directory and Map
    • Calendar
    • Missionary Portal
    • Find a Church
    All Tools
        • Church History
        • Publications
          • Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
          • Prophets of the Restoration
          • Global Histories
          • Revelations in Context
          • Women of Conviction
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Church Historian's Press
          • More
        • Visit
          • Church History Museum
          • Historic Sites
          • Church History Library
        • Research
          • Church History Catalog
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database
          • Treasures of the Collection
          • Pioneer Resources
        • Quick Links
          • Church History Library
          • Church History Museum
          • Church Historic Sites
          • Church History Catalog
          • Church Historian’s Press
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database

        Pioneer Database

        1847–1868

        Home Companies Switch to Keyword Search
        Date Unknown

        Date Unknown

        Birth Date
        21 February 1831
        Death Date
        9 October 1905
        Gender
        Male
        Family Search logo

        View this Person on FamilySearch

        Thomas Murphy Alexander

        Facebook Twitter Print Mail
        Find this person in FamilySearch
        • Thomas initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Willard Richards Company in 1848. He later participated as one of the rescuers that were sent out in the winter of 1856 to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming. He was among the small group of men who remained behind at Devil's Gate until spring to guard the personal belongings of the emigrants who had been rescued.

        Willard Richards Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 17

        Rescue Companies (1856)

        • Age at Departure: 25

        Sources

        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 7. 
        • Jaques, John, [Minutes of meeting at Devil's Gate, 9 November 1856], in John Jaques, Collection, 1846-1920.
        • Jones, Daniel W., Forty Years Among the Indians (1890), 62-75.
        • Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914.