• Only his name appears on the partial Journal History roster of the 1850 Woodruff company, but his ad, taken out in the Deseret News, confirms that he was in the Valley by at least the 1850 emigration season. His wife and three children are in his Salt Lake City household with him in the 1850 federal census, enumerated in early 1851, so it is assumed that they crossed the plains with him.

Wilford Woodruff Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 38
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory.
• "Daguerreotyping," Deseret News, 14 December 1850, 174.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1850, 17.
• Olive Branch Millburn, comp., A History, Diary and Genealogy of William Henry Branch, Sr. (195?), 8-19.