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  • Ralph Snowball (1844 - d.)
    Born July 26, 1844, England. Came to Utah 1853. Married: Jane Thomas March 18, 1867, Salt Lake City (daughter of Thomas F. Thomas of Merthyr Tydfll, Wales, pioneer 1853). She was born May 7, 1848, in...
  • Margaret Smith (1830 - 1880)
  • Thomas Smith (1828 - 1907)
  • Ashael Thorn (1808 - 1897)
    (son of Richard Thorn and Mary Ann Armstrong of Pennsylvania). Born September 16, 1808, in Pennsylvania. Came to Utah in 1853, Joseph Thorn company. Married: Sarah Lester 1829 in Pennsylvania (daught...
  • Lewis Dunbar Wilson, Jr. (1840 - 1922)
    (son of Lewis Dunbar Wilson and Nancy Waggoner). Born September 21, 1840, in Nauvoo, Illinois. Married: Catherine Wiggins December 31, 1862, Ogden (daughter of Ebenezer Fairchild Wiggins, pioneer, 18...

1853

This project is a sub project of the Mormon Pioneers (1847-1868) Master Project

This page covers the Mormon Pioneers of 1853 only.

Finding Aids

Chronological Company List

Pioneer Index Search

How to Participate

Please collaborate on a specific year's (1847-1868) project page. If you have an ancestor who was a Mormon pioneer consult the link listed under finding aids to verify the year of your ancestor's migration. Then after getting yourself added as a collaborator for that year navigate to your ancestor's profile and under the "More Actions" link choose "Add to Project" and select the Mormon Pioneer project to which your ancestor should be included on.

  • Include in the "About Me" section of each person a brief biographical sketch of their lives. See any of the pioneers on the 1847 Brigham Young project as an example.
  • Include a photograph of your ancestor if one exists.
  • Your pioneer's profiles should be marked as "public" and not "private".
  • All included profiles should include full identifying information including birth and death dates as well as birth and death locations. It would also be very helpful if the immediate family of your pioneer ancestor, (their parents, siblings and children) profiles were public profiles also.
  • Do not make public any profiles of living people.

NOTE: All pioneers included on a project will have their pioneer's profiles editable by other geni.com collaborators of that particular project.