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1847–1868

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Birth Date
8 January 1839
Death Date
19 April 1913
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John Acley Gillett

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  • In 1850, the Gilletts lived in Neversink, Sullivan County, New York, according to the 1850 census.  The Gillett family initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the William Field Company in 1854.  The Gillett family included Horace and Sarah Collins Moore, and their children, John Acley, Granville, Collins Moore, Carlos Newton, and Sarah Elizabeth and her family.  Horace, a captain of ten, died en route from cholera, on 26 June, according to Newton Tuttle’s journal.

    John is with his parents and siblings in the 1850 federal census of Neversink, Sullivan County, New York.  Church ordinance records prove he was in Salt Lake City in October 1854.

William Field Company (1854)

  • Age at Departure: 15

Sources

  • 1850 New York Census
  • 1856 Utah Census.
  • Groo, Isaac, Diary, 1854 Apr.-[Sept].  MS 1003 fd 2.
  • "John A. Gillett Dies," Salt Lake Herald, 20 Apr. 1913, 14.