
- Birth Date
- 27 June 1828
- Death Date
- 21 May 1916
- Gender
- Male
Samuel Linton
Samuel was a teamster in the Pratt/Benson/Eldredge Company of 1854. Handcart Veterans Association records indicate that Samuel was among those who rescued the handcart companies stranded in Wyoming in the winter of 1856.
Orson Pratt/Ezra T. Benson/Ira Eldredge Company (1854)
- Age at Departure: 25
Sources
- 1900 Utah Census.
- Bailey, Langley A. to Albert Jones, Handcart Veterans Association, 23 September 1907. Handcart Veterans Association, Scrapbook, 1906-1914, fd 3.
- Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6.
- Linton, Samuel and Mary L. Morgan, History of Samuel Linton , [2-3].
- Thirteenth Ward record of members, 1859-1870.