• Thomas' father (George), mother (Hannah Hobson May), sisters (Elizabeth & Emily), and brother (William), all died of cholera before the Kelsey Company set out for the west. They had previously survived the explosion of the steamboat Saluda.

Eli B. Kelsey Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 11

Sources

• "19th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• May, James, Reminiscences [ca. 1864-1888], 12-13.