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1847–1868

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Birth Date
14 March 1802
Death Date
15 October 1855
Gender
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Orson Spencer

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  • The family sailed to America in 1849 on the ship Zetland.

Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer Company (1849)

  • Age at Departure: 47
  • Company Captain
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Martha Spencer (Age: 23)
  • Martha Emma Spencer (Age: 1)

Orson Spencer/ Joel J. Terrell Company (1853)

  • Age at Departure: 51
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Edward Phillips, Autobiographical sketch, reel 10, box 13, fd. 2, item 9, 3.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Hill, William John, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 32:82-83.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 1.
  • Nauvoo Community Project
  • Reuben Miller journals, 1848-1849, Journal, 1849 June-September.
  • Reuben Miller letter to Brigham Young, 9 September 1849.
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Samuel Gully letter to Brigham Young, 3 July 1849.
  • Thomas Atkin autobiography, circa 1901, 5-7.
  • William Farrington Cahoon in Reynolds Cahoon and His Stalwart Sons (1960) complied and edited by Stella Cahoon Shurtleff and Brent Farrington Cahoon, 90.