• Rufus served as the pioneer company clerk and traveled to Utah with his wives, Laura Ann and her son Alfred, and his wife Harriet Cordelia. The 1850 Utah census, taken in the Spring of 1851, shows that he was living in a household with his wife Laura Ann, their two children, and Alfred.  

  The 1850 Utah census proves that Rufus died after 1850.

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 52
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, 21 June 1847, 9.
• Missionary Database
• Sessions, Patty Bartlett, Diaries and account book, 1846-1866; 1880, vol. 1.