• Evidence from genealogical. church records, and the Immigrant Location records prove the Lee family traveled to Utah in 1852.  The Immigration Location lists shows that he was assigned to settle in Tooele and they may have traveled to Utah with the Warren Snow Company.  Further research is needed to confirm the name of the pioneer company they traveled to Utah with.  The mother, Julia, died en route. 

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 25

Sources

• Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
• Presiding Bishopric. Immigrant Location Committee Minutes, (20 September - 13 October 1852).
• "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.