• Rolfe traveled with the 1847 Company, but returned to Winter Quarters shortly after his arrival in the Valley. He returned again in 1848.

Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 24

Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 25

Sources

• Albert P. Rockwood journals, 1847-1853, Journal, 1847 April-July.
• "Death of B. W. Rolfe," Deseret Weekly, 4 June 1892, 783.
• Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
• John S. Higbee reminiscences and diaries, 1845-1866.  Transcriptions from volumes 1 and 2.
• Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 15.
• Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 4:716.
• “Life and Journeys of John Somers Higbee,” Iron County Record, 16 February 1929.
• Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary, edited and compiled by William M. Egan (1917), 21-105.
• "The Utah Pioneers," Deseret Weekly, 25 August 1894, 294.
• Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1847 April-June.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
• William Clayton diaries, 1846-1853, Folder contents: (2) Volume 2, 1847.