• He sailed to America with his mother and siblings in 1849 on the ship Buena Vista.

  In the 1850 Utah census he is listed as Thomas D. "Jones." (His mother had married Dan Jones in December 1849.) In the 1860 Utah census he is listed with his mother and some of his siblings under the surname "Lewis."

George A. Smith/Dan Jones Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 15

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
• Isaac Clarke Emigrating Company journal, 1849 July-October.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 8H.