• Thomas traveled with a company of non-Mormon Iowans who were headed toward California in 1852 . The party stopped at Salt Lake city for the winter; while here some members the Cooke family converted to the faith.

  In some sources, the family's surname is spelled "Cook."

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 18

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census
• 1856 Utah Census.
• Cooke, Lucy Rutledge, Crossing the Plains in 1852, 1987, 28-30.
• Covered Wagon Women, vol. 4, p. 209, 243.
• Rebaptisms in Great Salt Lake Valley: 1847-1854 : index.