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Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847)

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Barney, Barnum, Boggs, Brown and 16 others
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    Barbara Ann Wardell-Bridges (1825 - 1903)
    Note: There is strong evidence she was NOT born in Scotland and NOT born in 1831. Christening was definitely in Penshaw, Durham, England. All her siblings were born in Durham. The 1851 census shows she...
  • Ellis Augustus Eames, Sr. (1809 - 1882)
    Residence : Haun's Mill on Shoal Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri, USA - Oct 30 1838* Residence : Van Buren, Iowa Territory, United States - 1840* Residence : Utah, Utah Territory - 1850* Residence : S...
  • Norman Benjamin Taylor (1828 - 1899)
    Mormon Pioneer="...Taylor, Norman – (14th Ten) Born Sept. 15, 1828, at Grafton, Lorraine Co., Ohio, to Benjamin and Ann Mennel Taylor. He was teamster of the first company drove the second wagon that e...
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27521902/levi-jackman
    Polygamist Levi Jackman, Mormon Pioneer (1797 - 1876)
    Levi Jackman BIRTH 28 Jul 1797, Corinth Center, Orange County, Vermont, USA DEATH 23 Jul 1876 (aged 78), Salem, Utah County, Utah, USA BURIAL Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah County, Utah, USA Show Map...
  • Brigham Young (1801 - 1877)
    Wikipedia Biographical Summary:=="... Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and was the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte...

Project Scope:

This project covers the original 1847 Brigham Young led pioneer company. The original pioneer company consisted of 143 men, 3 women, and 2 children.

They covered the 1031 miles of the trail in 111 days. During the next 2 decades 70,000 others would follow.

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

Finding Aids

Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah

Chronological Company List

Biographies

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/58061/Biographies-of-the-orig...

Brigham Young Pioneer Company (1847)
http://lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompany/1,15797,4017-1-...

Finished Profiles

List of Mormon 1847 Brigham Young Pioneer Company Members:

The number shown in parentheses next to each name is the age of the pioneer at the time of the journey. Names listed in bold were members of either the LDS church's "Quorum of the 12 Apostles" or other "notable" pioneers.

  1. Adams, Barnabas Lothrop (34)
  2. Allen, Rufus (33)
  3. Angell, Truman Osborn (37)
  4. Atwood, Millen (30)
  5. Badger, Rodney (23)
  6. Baird, Robert Erwin (29)
  7. Barney, Lewis (38)
  8. Barnum, Charles David (47)
  9. Benson, Ezra Taft (36)
  10. Billings, George Pierce (19)
  11. Boggs, Francis (39)
  12. Brown, George Washington (20)
  13. Brown, John (26)
  14. Brown, Nathaniel Thomas (53)
  15. Bullock, Thomas (30)
  16. Burk, Charles Allen (23)
  17. Burnham, Jacob D. (26)
  18. Carrington, Albert (34)
  19. Carter, William (26)
  20. Case, James (52)
  21. Chamberlin, Solomon (58)
  22. Chesley, Alexander Philip (32)
  23. Clayton, William (32)
  24. Cloward, Thomas Poulson (24)
  25. Coltrin, Zebedee(42)
  26. Craig, James (25)
  27. Crosby, Oscar (32)
  28. Curtis, Lyman (35)
  29. Cushing, Hosea (21)
  30. Davenport, James (45)
  31. Decker, Isaac Perry (6)
  32. Dewey, Benjamin Franklin (17)
  33. Dixon, John (28)
  34. Driggs, Sterling Graves (25)
  35. Dykes, William (31)
  36. Earl, Sylvester Henry
  37. Eastman, Ozro French (18)
  38. Egan, Howard (31)
  39. Egbert, Joseph (29)
  40. Eldredge, John Sutherland (26)
  41. Ellsworth, Edmund(27)
  42. Empey, William Adam (38)
  43. Ensign, Horace Datus (20)
  44. Everett, Addison
  45. Fairbanks, Nathaniel (23)
  46. Farr, Aaron Freeman (28)
  47. Fitzgerald, Perry (32)
  48. Flake, Green (19)
  49. Fowler, John Sherman (27)
  50. Fox, Samuel Bradford (17)
  51. Freeman, John Monroe (23)
  52. Frink, Horace Monroe (14)
  53. Frost, Burr (31)
  54. Gibbons, Andrew Smith (22)
  55. Gleason, John Streator (28)
  56. Glines, Eric M. (25)
  57. Goddard, Stephen Hezekiah (36)
  58. Grant, David (30)
  59. Grant, George Roberts (26)
  60. Greene, John Young (20)
  61. Grover, Thomas (39)
  62. Hancock, Joseph (47)
  63. Hanks, Sidney Alvarus (26)
  64. Hansen, Hans Christian (40)
  65. Harmon, Appleton Milo (26)
  66. Harper, Charles Alfred (31)
  67. Henrie, William (47)
  68. Higbee, John Somers (43)
  69. Holman, John Greenleaf (18)
  70. Howd, Simeon Fuller (23)
  71. Ivory, Matthew Hayes (46)
  72. Jackman, Levi (49)
  73. Jacob, Norton (42)
  74. Johnson, Artemus (38)
  75. Johnson, Luke (39)
  76. Johnson, Philo (32)
  77. Kelsey, Stephen (16)
  78. Kendall, Levi Newell (25)
  79. Kimball, Ellen Sanders (22)
  80. Kimball, Heber Chase (45)
  81. King, William Arridus (25)
  82. Kleinman, Conrad (32)
  83. Lay, Hark (22)
  84. Lewis, Tarlton (42)
  85. Little, Jesse Carter (31)
  86. Loveland, Chauncey (50)
  87. Luce, John Grant (29)
  88. Lyman, Amasa Mason (34)
  89. Marble, Samuel Harvey (24)
  90. Markham, Stephen (47)
  91. Matthews, Joseph Lazarus (38)
  92. Mills, George (60)
  93. Murray, Carlos G. (18)
  94. Newman, Elijah (53)
  95. Norton, John Wesley (26)
  96. Owen, Seeley (42)
  97. Pack, John (38)
  98. Peirce, Eli Harvey (19)
  99. Pomeroy, Francis Martin (25)
  100. Powell, David (25)
  101. Pratt, Orson (35)
  102. Rappleye, Ammon Tunis (40)
  103. Redden, Return Jackson (29)
  104. Richards, Willard (42)
  105. Rockwell, Orrin Porter (33)
  106. Rockwood, Albert Perry (41)
  107. Rolfe, Benjamin William (24)
  108. Rooker, Joseph (29)
  109. Roundy, Shadrach (58)
  110. Schofield, Joseph Smith (37)
  111. Scholes, George (35)
  112. Sherwood, Henry Garlic (62)
  113. Shumway, Andrew Purley (14)
  114. Shumway, Charles (38)
  115. Smith, George Albert (29)
  116. Smoot, William Cochran Adkinson (19)
  117. Snow, Erastus (28)
  118. Stevens, Roswell (38)
  119. Stewart, Benjamin Franklin (29)
  120. Stewart, James Wesley (23)
  121. Stringham, Briant (22)
  122. Summe, Gilbard (44)
  123. Taft, Seth (50)
  124. Taylor, Norman (18)
  125. Tanner, Thomas (43)
  126. Thomas, Robert T. (27)
  127. Thornton, Horace (24)
  128. Thorpe, Marcus B. (24)
  129. Tippets, John Harvey (36)
  130. Vance, William Perkins (24)
  131. Wardsworth, William Shin (37)
  132. Walker, Henson (27)
  133. Wardle, George (27)
  134. Wheeler, John (45)
  135. Weiler, Jacob (39)
  136. Whipple, Edson (42)
  137. Whitney, Horace Kimball (23)
  138. Whitney, Orson Kimball (17)
  139. Williams, Almon Mack (40)
  140. Woodruff, Wilford (40)
  141. Woodward, George (29)
  142. Woolsey, Thomas (41)
  143. Young, Brigham (46) Prophet, President of the Church, Pioneer Leader
  144. Young, Clarissa Caroline Decker (18)
  145. Young, Harriet Page Wheeler (43)
  146. Young, Lorenzo Dow (39)
  147. Young, Lorenzo Sobieski (6)
  148. Young, Phineas Howe (48)
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