• In 1850 Thomas and part of his family traveled east from Utah to Iowa, arriving in time to be counted in the 1850 federal census.  They returned to Utah in 1853 (According to New Family Search his wife Hannah had a child in Farmington, Utah in January 1854.)

Charles C. Rich Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 24

Company Unknown (1853)

• Age at Departure: 29

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 50.