• Comfort and her husband William Jolley crossed the Atlantic on the ship Windermere in 1854 with two of their daughters (Jane and Comfort.)  On the ship manifest the family surname is spelled "Jelly" as it is in the records of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund.  William died of cholera on 14 May 1854, before embarking upon the plains so Comfort and her girls traveled on without him.  Secondary sources say they traveled with the Daniel Garn Company but this must be verified by a primary source. The first documentation to place the Comfort and her daughters in Utah is the re-baptism of Jane at Salt Lake City on 22 October 1854. At the time of the 1856 Utah Territorial Census, Comfort Sr. was living at Union Fort in the Salt Lake Valley.  In the 1880 federal census she was living in the household of her daughter Comfort Fife at Clarkston, Utah.  Further research is needed to determine the name of the company with which she crossed the plains.

Company Unknown (1854)

• Age at Departure: 43
• Head of Household

Sources

• 11th Ward, Record of Members
• 1856 Utah Census.
• 1880 Utah Census, Cache County.
• Early Church Information File
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 18.