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1847–1868

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1 August 1822
Death Date
17 November 1901
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Edward Bunker Sr.

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  • Edward initially came to Utah in 1847, served as a Captain of Ten in the 1850 Aaron Johnson Company, and in 1856 he was a returning missionary and served as the captain of the company.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 25
  • Head of Household

Aaron Johnson Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 27
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Emily Bunker (Age: 22)
  • Edward Bunker Jr. (Age: 3)
  • Emily Bunker (Age: 1)

Edward Bunker Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 33
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • Attley, Henry William, Reminiscences, in Papers, 1858-1910.
  • Bunker, Edward, Autobiography, 1894, 22-23.
  • Daniel Spencer letter to Franklin D. Richards printed in "Foreign Correspondence," Millennial Star, 2 August 1856, 489-90.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Edward Bunker autobiography, 1894, 13-14.
  • Edward Bunker autobiography, 1894, 19-20.
  • Evans, Priscilla Merriman, Autobiography [ca. 1914], item 2, 39-41.
  • George W. Turner autobiography and minutebook, 1871-1887, 121-23.
  • Grant, D[avid] to William G. Noble, 30 Aug. 1856, "Foreign Correspondence," Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star , 29 Nov. 1856, 767.
  • Hyde, Elizabeth Lane, "Autobiagraphy [sic] of Elizabeth L. Hyde," Woman's Exponent , 15 Aug. 1896, 29.
  • "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1850, 3.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 180.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Parry, John, Reminiscences and diary, 1857 Mar.-1867 Sept., 55-60.
  • Roberts, Robert D., [Reminiscences], 80, in Joel Ricks, "Memories of Early Days in Cache County," in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, Utah, Scrapbooks.
  • Roberts, Robert David, Autobiographical sketch, in Robert D. Roberts, Papers of the Roberts Family Association.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • William Woodward letter to Heber C. Kimball, 11 June 1856.
  • Woodward, W., to Albert Jones, Handcart Veterans Association, 12 Sep. 1906. Handcart Veterans Association, Scrapbook, 1906-1914, fd. 2.