• John and Clarissa Loomis Lyman traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 with the Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company, according to Jesse Nathaniel’s journal.  They traveled with their two children and their families:

  Their daughter Caroline Clara with her husband, Thomas Callister, and his second wife and daughter, Helen Marr Clark and Helen Marr;

  And their son John Lyman Smith and his wife Augusta Bowen Cleveland.

  John was a Patriarch of the Church.

Daniel Spencer/Perrigrine Sessions Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 65
• Head of Household

Sources

• Find a Grave
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 8.
• Martin, Sophronia Moore, Autobiographical sketch [ca. 1915], 1.
• Perrigrine Sessions reminiscences and diaries, 1839-1886, Volume 1, 1845 February-1853 February, 11-13.
• Sessions, Patty Bartlett, Diaries and account book, 1846-1866; 1880, vol. 1.
• Smith, John Lyman, Autobiography and diaries 1846-1895, vol. 1, 26-31.
• Spencer, Daniel, Diaries 1845-1857, vol. 2.