Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 17 November 1808
- Death Date
- 4 May 1880
- Gender
- Male
Roswell Stevens
Roswell was part of the 2nd Company of Ten led by Ezra Taft Benson. He left the company on 3 June at Fort Laramie to take a message to the Mormon Battalion sick detachments and Mississippi Saints at Pueblo, Colorado. In Wilford Woodruff's journal, his name is spelled as "Stephens." At some point he returned to Winter Quarters. He is seen crossing the plains again in 1851 with the Smith Company.
Brigham Young Vanguard Company (1847)
- Age at Departure: 38
John G. Smith Company (1851)
- Age at Departure: 42
- Head of Household
Sources
- 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.
- Appleton M. Harmon diary, 1847 April-July.
- Brunson, Lewis, Autobiography, 1861, 16-17
- Edson Barney, Biographical information relating to Mormon pioneer overland travel database, 2003-2017.
- "For the Guardian," Frontier Guardian, 8 August 1851, 2.
- Greene, E. M., to D. Mackintosh, 26 July 1851, in Frontier Guardian, 8 Aug. 1851, 2.
- Heber C. Kimball journal in Heber C. Kimball papers, 1837-1866.
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- Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, Supplement after 31 December 1851, 1.
- John H. Tippets autobiography, circa 1882, 99-113.
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- Norton Jacob reminiscence and journal, 1844 May-1852 January, 47-85.
- Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary, edited and compiled by William M. Egan (1917), 21-105.
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- Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
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