• The Halford family arrived in the States in 1855 via the ship Emerald Isle. They must have remained in the east for a few years, because they are not seen crossing the plains to the Valley until 1861 with the David Cannon Company. 

David H. Cannon Company (1861)

• Age at Departure: 19

Sources

• 1851 England and Wales Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• "Capt. D. H. Cannon's Train," The Mountaineer , 13 July 1861, 162.
• “Deaths and Funerals,” Salt Lake Telegram, 28 October 1913, 12.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.