• The Reid family initially planned to travel with the Daniel D. McArthur Company. However, they were detained in Florence while James Reid recovered from a gunshot wound. They joined the Willie Company, which left Florence more than four weeks later.

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Enoch Train.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 6

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census.
• "Died," Utah Journal , 26 June 1886.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 26 September 1856, 31.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 160.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.