John Sharp

Sharp family sailed from Liverpool, England, Thursday, September 7, 1848.

Ship: ¨ Erin’s Queen

Sharps Landed at New Orleans, October 28, 1848.

Arrived in St. Louis November 6, 1848
- Ship record logs of the Zetland and Erin’s Queen. - Also, see Mormon Immigration Index CD

Death of Mary Hunter Sharp [mother], June 1849, in St. Louis, of cholera during epidemic.

Sharps Possible date of departure from St. Louis to Salt Lake Valley, April 22, 1850.

Entrance into the SL Valley, August 28, 1850. John Sharp Company.

- History gives varying dates for arrival to allow for repair of wagons, scarcity of water and feed for cattle, etc. Wagons in the same company could arrive several days apart.

The Deseret News of August 31, 1850

- James P Sharp’s History of the Sharp Family http://sites.google.com/site/emilyfarrer/sharpandcondiedatesandplaces

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