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1847–1868

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Birth Date
26 July 1809
Death Date
25 July 1893
Gender
Male
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Thomas Weir

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  • Thomas first traveled to the Valley from the east as a discharged member of the Mormon Battalion. At some point, he continued east because he is seen on the trail again with family members in 1851 with the Walton/Garden Grove Company. Company records indicate his traveling group consisted of four people.

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 38

Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company (1851)

  • Age at Departure: 41
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Elizabeth Caroline Weir (Age: 34)
  • Mary Eliza Weir (Age: 4)
  • Nancy America Weir (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • Crooks, George, [Diary excerpts], in Elna P. Atchison, [Genealogical information on the Crooks family, ca. 1955], 15-16.
  • Jonathan H. Holmes diary, 1846-1848.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 222-23.
  • Ossian F. Taylor journal, 1851 April-September.