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Birth Date
13 November 1845
Death Date
17 November 1857
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John Moroni Gillies

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  • The Gillies family crossed the Atlantic on the ship S. Curling in 1856 and started for Utah that year in the Hodgetts company, but they halted somewhere along the way.  In 1857 they joined the Jesse B. Martin company in another effort to get to Utah. Between July 11 and July 17, they decided to stop traveling with this company and turn back. John Moroni died 17 Nov. 1857; but the rest of the family eventually made it to Utah by 1859 as they were enumerated in the 1860 July census at Beaver. Utah death records confirm the dates of John's birth and death.

William B. Hodgetts Company (1856)

  • Age at Departure: 10

Traveled with

  • John Gillies (Age: 87)
  • Jane Ann Gillies (Age: 37)
  • Robert Gillies (Age: 36)
  • Ann Campbell Gillies (Age: 10)
  • Daniel Sinclair Gillies (Age: 7)
  • Christina Gibbs Gillies (Age: 4)

Jesse B. Martin Company (1857)

  • Age at Departure: 11

Traveled with

  • John Gillies (Age: 87)
  • Jane Ann Gillies (Age: 38)
  • Robert Gillies (Age: 37)
  • Ann Campbell Gillies (Age: 10)
  • Daniel Sinclair Gillies (Age: 8)
  • Christina Gibbs Gillies (Age: 5)

Sources

  • "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 194.
  • Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
  • W. B. Hodgetts Company report, 1856.