• Son of Thomas Grover and Hannah Tupper.                        

  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.

Charles C. Rich Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 1

Company Unknown (1853)

• Age at Departure: 7

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• Book of the Pioneers, Book 1, p. 288. A Record of Those Who Arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake during the Year 1847; Including the Names, Ages, Autographs and Places of Residence of All Known Survivors on July 24, 1897, "The Year of Jubilee!"
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,  21 June 1847,  51.
• "Thomas Graver [Grover] Father of Mrs. Parley Hatch of Bountiful Dies in S. L.," Davis County Clipper , 29 May 1931, 1.
• Utah Death Certificates.  
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.