• John traveled with his daughter Elizabeth. His wife, Elizabeth Hall Mills and two youngest daughters, Mary Alice and Martha, traveled with the 1853 Daniel Miller/John Cooley Company. The two companies traveled closely together. It is uncertain why the family split between two companies. 

David Wilkin Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 37
• Head of Household

Sources

• “David Wilkin Company report, 1853 July 15.” In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 33)
• "Elizabeth Whitaker of Centerville Gives Sketches of Her Life," Davis County Clipper, 13 November 1931, 1.