• Evidence from genealogical records proves that James traveled to Utah sometime between 1851 and 1853. He does not appear on the 1850 Utah census. The first documentation of him being in Utah is his death at the hands of Indians. Further research is needed to determine the year he came to Utah and the name of the company he traveled with.

  His name is listed as "William Nelson" in the Playing with Shadows book.

Unknown Companies (1847-1868)

• Age at Departure: 53

Sources

• Aird, Polly, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley, eds., Playing with Shadows: Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West, (2011): 125, n. 16.
• Black, Susan Easton. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1830-1848 (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, [1984-1988]).