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1847–1868

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Birth Date
5 November 1855
Death Date
7 May 1928
Gender
Male
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Thomas Rees

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  • Evidence from emigration and newspaper records proves the Rees family traveled to Utah in 1859. Pioneers and Prominent Men places them in a company captained by a man named "Beebe," but there was no Beebe Company and no man by that name that we know of that traveled in 1859. He was likely a captain of ten or captain of fifty. Further research is necessary to identify the company they traveled with.

    His birth date is confirmed by the death certificate and Find A Grave website.

Company Unknown (1859)

  • Age at Departure: 3

Traveled with

  • Edmund Rees Sr. (Age: 45)
  • Sarah Margaret Rees (Age: 35)
  • David Rees (Age: 12)
  • Ellis Rees (Age: 12)
  • Mary Rees (Age: 9)
  • Edmund Rees Jr. (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census, Summit County.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 1124.
  • Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 495.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.