• Brother of Fredrick Weight who was in the C.D. Howell Company of 1852 and who, in his autobiographical sketch, says that James crossed the plains in "another company."

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 27

Sources

• "Death of Jas. Weight," Deseret Evening News , 15 May 1889, [3].
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 137.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 138.
• Weight, Frederick, A short history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself [ca. 1895], 9-10.