• Evidence from census and church records prove that the Atchison family came to Utah in 1851 or 1852. Further research is needed to confirm the year they came to Utah and the name of the company they traveled with.

Unknown Companies (1847-1868)

• Age at Departure: 18

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright.