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Pioneer Database

1847–1868

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Birth Date
8 August 1810
Death Date
1 April 1878
Gender
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John Cox

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  • John returned to Iowa and brought his wife and children to Utah sometime between 1851 and 1853.  His daughter Eliza Jane was born 12 November 1850 at Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa.  The first documentation to place him in Utah is when he signed up with the Utah State Militia on 10 September 1853.  Further research is needed to determine the year of the family's arrival in Utah and the name of the pioneer company with which they traveled.

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 37

Unknown Companies (1847-1868)

  • Age at Departure: 36
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Eliza Margaret Cox (Age: 29)
  • Elizabeth Cox (Age: 9)
  • Mary Ann Cox (Age: 4)
  • Eliza Jane Cox (Age: Infant)
  • Sarah Jane Cox (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • 1870 Utah Census, Cache County.
  • Elijah Elmer diary in "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," edited by Will Bagley, Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7.
  • Henele Pikale (Henry W. Bigler), "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor, 1 December 1886, 365-66.
  • "Names of men who wish for land to cultivate who came from California with Jonathan H. Holmes," Land records, circa 1847-1860, Salt Lake (County) Recorder's Office land records, circa 1847-1860.
  • Nauvoo Community Project
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 222-23.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Samuel H. Rogers reminiscences and diary, 1841-1886, Folder contents: (1) Reminiscences and journal, 1841 June-1855 July, 158-66.
  • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
  • Zadoc K. Judd autobiography, 1903-1907, 33-36.