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1847–1868

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Birth Date
2 October 1829
Death Date
25 May 1903
Gender
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Thomas Sunderland Hawkins

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  • "in April 1852 I and my Wife left St[.] Louis For the Valley[.] I drove Team and my Wife Worked to as[s]ist Br[.] H. Arnold[']s Family and found our own Provisions and so worked our own way to Salt Lake City[,] arriving in (Zion) August 28th[,] 1852." (Thomas S. Hawkins, Autobiographical sketch)

John Parker Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 22
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Harriet Hawkins (Age: 22)

Sources

  • "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright. 
  • Thomas Sunderland Hawkins autobiographical sketch in Thomas Sunderland Hawkins: Biography of a Mormon Pioneer (Provo: 1994) by Evelyn Hawkins Hughes, 285.