
Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 20 May 1809
- Death Date
- 4 April 1885
- Gender
- Male
John Pack Sr.
Birth date is confirmed by the missionary register.
John initially traveled in 1847, when he was elected to be a Major in the company, as well as served as Captain of 50.
He crossed the plains again in 1848, as captain of a 100 and again in 1852 as colonel of the company.
Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)
- Age at Departure: 37
Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)
- Age at Departure: 39
- Head of Household
Traveled with
John S. Higbee/James W. Bay Company (1852)
- Age at Departure: 43
Sources
- 1st Company of 50 reports, 1852, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
- "A Pioneer gone," Deseret Evening News , 6 Apr. 1885, 3.
- Albert P. Rockwood journals, 1847-1853, Journal, 1847 April-July.
- Amasa M. Lyman collection, 1832-1877, Journal, 1847 April 8-September 10, 1-26 and 1-10. Events recorded by Albert Carrington.
- Bay, James Willard, Diaries, 1850-1853, vol. 2.
- Bay, James Willard. Journal, 1850 July-1858 Apr., 163-75.
- Daniel Davis diaries, 1846-1892, Journal, 1846 May-1889 January, 90-101.
- Erastus Snow journals, 1835-1851; 1856-1857, 1847 April-December, 1-92.
- Find a Grave (Website)
- George Benjamin Wallace Emigrating Company journal, 1847 June-September.
- George Laub reminiscences and journal, 1845 January-1857 April, 29 May 1852– August 1852, 199-266.
- Heber C. Kimball, Autobiography, circa 1842-1858, in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
- Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
- Heber C. Kimball journals, 1848 June-July and 1848 July-September, in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
- Higbee, John Somers, Reminiscences and diaries, 1845-1866, vol. 3.
- Howard Egan, Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878, edited and compiled by William M. Egan (1917), 21-105.
- John Brown reminiscences and journals, 1843-1896, Volume 1, 56-70.
- John Pack letters, 1847.
- John Pack papers, 1833-1882, item 15.
- Joseph Fielding journals, 1837-1859, Journal, 1843 December-1859 March, 134-141.
- Joseph G. Hovey papers, 1845-1856, circa 1933, Autobiography, 1845-1856, 130-75.
- Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 12.
- Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 4:714.
- Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
- Norton Jacob reminiscence and journal, 1844 May-1852 January, 110-115.
- Norton Jacob reminiscence and journal, 1844 May-1852 January, 47-85.
- Orson F. Whitey, History of Utah: in Four Volumes, Volume 4 (Salt Lake City, Utah: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Publishers, 1904), 591.
- Pack, Ward E., Journals 1854-1876, fd. 1, 6.
- Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 107.
- Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1847 April-June.
- Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1848 May-September.
- Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
- Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1908-1949.
- Wilford Woodruff journal, 1847 January-1853 December, 25-77.
- William Burton papers, circa 1837-1851, Journal, Volume 11, 1848 June-July.
- William Clayton diaries, 1846-1853, Folder contents: (2) Volume 2, 1847.