• 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.