• The Leithead journal indicates Isaac Behunin's traveling group consisted of 11 individuals. It is likely those traveling with him were his wife and children who appear in his household in the 1850 Utah census taken just 8 months later, prior to the 1851 emigration season.

  Land records indicate that the 1850 journey was Philo's second trip to the Valley. He first traveled there from California in 1848 with a group of Mormon Battalion veterans. He must have returned to the East to bring back his parents and siblings.

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 20

Milo Andrus Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Leithead, James, [Journal], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 42:18, 28-35.
• "Names of men who wish for land to cultivate who came from California with Jonathan H. Holmes," Land records, circa 1847-1860, Salt Lake (County) Recorder's Office land records, circa 1847-1860.