• 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

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.
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