• On trail with his parents, Sarah Vail and Edmund,  and three sisters, Harriet, Mary Lovina and Ophelia. His father and one sister, Harriet, died on the trail. 

David Wood Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 15

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• 1870 Utah Census.
• 1880 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• Lever, W. H. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages; Chronology of Important Events; Records of Indian Wars; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Salt Lake City: Tribune Job Printing Co, 1898), 370
• United States Index to Indian Wars Pension Files, 1892-1926.
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.