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1847–1868

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22 February 1840
Death Date
26 September 1927
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Richard Weller Brenchley

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  • Pioneers and Prominent Men indicates that Richard Brenchley traveled to the Valley in the 1861 Joseph Horne Company. It is assumed that Jane, as his wife, was traveling with him. The balance of his PEF account confirms that he was not traveling alone.

    The Wellsville Ward financial records confirm that she was traveling in this company.

Joseph Horne Company (1861)

  • Age at Departure: 21
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Jane Brenchley (Age: 21)

Sources

  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 522.
  • "Obituary. Wellsville Pioneer of 1861, Indian War Vet, Laid at Final Rest," Deseret News , 3 Oct. 1927, 2:5.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 58.
  • "Wellsville Ward, Persons Who Emigrated by P.E.F. Belonging to this Ward," Wellsville Ward financial records, 1859-1882, Volume 1:85-90.