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1847–1868

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16 July 1781
Death Date
23 May 1854
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John Smith

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  • 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

Traveled with

  • Clarissa Loomis Smith (Age: 56)

Sources

  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • 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.