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1847–1868

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Birth Date
6 January 1823
Death Date
8 November 1910
Gender
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John Welch

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  •  The started with the 1850 company, but halted en route and didn't complete the journey until 1852.

Betz Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 28

William Snow/Joseph Young Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 27
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Eliza Welch (Age: 24)
  • Elizabeth Preston Welch (Age: 2)
  • Maria Keziah Welch (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1860 Utah Census.
  • Crookston, Robert, Autobiography [ca. 1900], 16.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Gardner Snow record and account book, 1847-1869, Record, 1850.
  • Luke W. Gallup reminiscences and diary, 1842 May-1891 March, 122-41.
  • Nauvoo Community Project
  • Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 2, p. 330-331
  • "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright. 
  • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
  • Utah Territory, List of Families, 1852-1853, in Record of Members Collection, CR 375 8,reel 7285, Salt Lake City 9th Ward