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1847–1868

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Birth Date
27 June 1828
Death Date
21 May 1916
Gender
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Samuel Linton

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  • 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.