• 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

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.