• The Trimmer family arrived in New Orleans in November 1844 on the ship Norfolk. They stayed in Iowa, then Missouri for a time. One daughter, Elizabeth, went ahead to the Valley in 1849. The rest of them followed her together in 1851. Edward Sr. served as Captain of the Herd.

  Birth year taken from West Jordan Ward records at the time of a rebaptism on 29 April 1852.

James W. Cummings Company (1851)

• Age at Departure: 11

Sources

• 1850 Missouri Census, Buchanan County.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• West Jordan Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.