• Don Carlos Babbitt first came across the plains with his family as a young boy. He later was a teamster out of Iowa.
   

Almon W. Babbitt Company (1851)

• Age at Departure: 7

Charles McCarty/William Appleby Company (1858)

• Age at Departure: 14

William Budge Company (1860)

• Age at Departure: 16
• Out-and-Back Teamster

Sources

• 1850 Illinois Census.
• Johnson, Joel Hills, Reminiscences and journals, 1835-1882, reel 1, fd. 2, 27-33.
• Johnson, Nephi, The life sketch of Nephi Johnson (from his diary), reel 13, box 19, fd. 7, item 9, 3.
• Mary H. Snow journal, 1851 March-June, 18-79.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files (CR 376 1), 1850-1887.
• "William I. Appleby Company schedule, 1858." In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1856-1862.