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1847–1868

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12 April 1807
Death Date
13 May 1857
Gender
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Parley Parker Pratt Sr.

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  • Traveled with his family in the 1847 company. He also captained other companies in 1852 and 1855, assisting emigrants to make the trip across the plains.

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 40
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Hannahette Pratt (Age: 34)
  • Elizabeth Pratt (Age: 31)
  • Mary Pratt (Age: 29)
  • Belinda Pratt (Age: 26)
  • Sarah Pratt (Age: 24)
  • Phoebe Elizabeth Pratt (Age: 23)
  • Martha Pratt (Age: 22)
  • Ann Agatha Pratt (Age: 18)
  • Parley Parker Pratt Jr. (Age: 10)
  • Helaman Pratt (Age: 1)
  • Alma Pratt (Age: 1)
  • Nephi Pratt (Age: 1)
  • Julia Houston Pratt (Age: Infant)

Parley P. Pratt Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 45
  • Company Captain

Parley P. Pratt Company (1855)

  • Age at Departure: 48
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • "Arrived," Deseret News [Weekly], 22 Aug. 1855, 189.
  • Chauncey W. West diary, 1847 June-September.
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Fuller, Elijah K., Reminiscences, in Utah Semi-Centennial Commission, The book of the pioneers [ca. 1897].
  • George Benjamin Wallace Emigrating Company journal, 1847 June-September.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 7.
  • Martin, Sophronia Moore, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1915], 1.
  • Perrigrine Sessions reminiscences and diaries, 1839-1886, Volume 1, 1845 February-1853 February, 11-13.
  • "Pioneer of Richfield Dead," Ogden Standard Examiner , 20 Apr. 1903, 8.
  • Pratt, Parley P., Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt [1985], 329-31.
  • Pratt, Parley P., "Correspondence," Deseret News [Weekly], 22 August 1855, 192.
  • Pratt, Parley P., Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt [1888], 454-55.
  • Pratt, Parley Parker, Journal, 1855 Jul-1856 Mar.
  • Sessions, Patty Bartlett, Diaries and account book, 1846-1866; 1880, vol. 1.
  • Sheets, Susanna Musser, Journal, in Elijah Funk Sheets, Journals, 1843-1904, vol. 1.
  • Sheets, Susanna Musser, to Anna Bitner, 11 June 1847, in Musser family, Letters 1847-1849; 1877.
  • Smith, Jesse Nathaniel, Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, the Life Story of a Mormon Pioneer, 1834-1906 [1953], 11-12.
  • Smith, John, Journal, 1846 Feb-1854 May, fd. 4, in Papers 1833-1854, 40-52.
  • Smith, John Lyman, Autobiography and diaries 1846-1895, vol. 1, 26-31.
  • Spencer, Daniel, Diaries 1845-1857, vol. 2.