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1847–1868

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Birth Date
8 March 1821
Death Date
7 August 1898
Gender
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Christopher Layton

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  • Christopher and his wife Sarah sailed to America in 1850 on the ship James Pennell.

    He served as a Captain of Fifty in the pioneer company.

Abraham O. Smoot Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 31
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Sarah Layton (Age: 29)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census, Davis County.
  • Brockbank, Isaac, Autobiography, in [Stephen W. Brockbank], Isaac Brockbank, Jr., 1837-1927: Autobiography [1997], 9-15.
  • "Christopher Layton Dead," Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 9 August 1898, 5.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • "Patriarch Layton's Death," Deseret Weekly, 13 August 1898, 276.
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
  • Wilson, James Thomas, "The Life of James Thomas Wilson," [1948], 32-39.
  • Woman's Exponent, 15 Feb.-1 Mar. 1901, 86