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1847–1868

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Birth Date
27 October 1819
Death Date
27 March 1885
Gender
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Eli Brazee Kelsey

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  • He was traveling with his wife and three children.

Eli B. Kelsey Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 32
  • Company Captain
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Letitia Kelsey (Age: 34)
  • George William Kelsey (Age: 14)
  • Mary Jane Kelsey (Age: 12)
  • Emma Celestine Kelsey (Age: 4)

Sources

  • "19th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • "21st Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • Ballard, Henry, Journal and Memoirs, in Joel Edward Ricks, Cache Valley Historical Material, reel 1, item 3, vol. 1, 1 and vol. 2, 3.
  • Butler, John Lowe, "Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, 1808-1861 [sic.]," [1957], 40-43.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 859.
  • Hansen, Hans F., Reminiscence and diary 1855-1909, fd. 2, 1.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 120.
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 6.
  • Stevens, Augusta Dorius, Autobiography of Our Dear Grandmother Mrs. Augusta Stevens, 3-5. Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
  • Wadsworth, Joseph Warren, [Autobiography], in Abiah Wadsworth: His Wives and Family, 1810-1979 [1979], 43-44.