• Son of Joseph Mecham. Traveled with his father, stepmother, and siblings.

Robert Wimmer Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 10

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• 1870 California Census.
• 1910 Utah Census.
• 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).
• "Pioneer of 1852 Dies at Home in Tooele," Deseret Evening News , 18 Mar. 1922, 10.
• Utah Death Certificates.