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1847–1868

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Birth Date
28 January 1808
Death Date
27 November 1888
Gender
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William Mathews

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  • After Ft. Laramie, the family joined the 1847 Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company. In some sources his surname is listed as "Matthews." FamilySearch and the Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database both give his surname as "Mathews."

    In 1857, he helped establish a colony of Saints in San Bernardino. When the members were called back to the Valley, he and his son (it is uncertain which son) returned with the Lyman/Rich Company in 1857.

Mississippi Company (1846)

  • Age at Departure: 37
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Elizabeth Adeline Mathews (Age: 38)
  • Thomas Marion Mathews (Age: 15)
  • Elizabeth Jane Mathews (Age: 14)
  • John Lynn Mathews (Age: 12)
  • Ezekiel Cunningham Mathews (Age: 10)
  • Maria Celeste Mathews (Age: 8)
  • Elvira Narcissus Mathews (Age: 6)
  • Emma Louisa Mathews (Age: 1)

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 39

Amasa M. Lyman/Charles C. Rich Company (1857)

  • Age at Departure: 49

Sources

  • "Deaths," Deseret News [Weekly], 12 December 1888, 768.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 10.
  • Lyman, Amasa Mason, Diary, reel 1, vol. 16, 1-20, in Amasa Mason Lyman, Collection 1832-1877.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 342.
  • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.