Ancestors on the Pioneer Trek

1847
Andrew Jackson Allen (age 28) & Delilah Emaline Andrews Allen (age 28) and their children (Percy Francis-5, William Coleman-4, Margaret Mary Jane-2, Martha Elizabeth-1). 
  • Abraham O. Smoot - George B. Wallace Company
  • Andrew's sister, Martha (age 24) came with them. 
  • Stone Side

Hayden Wells Church (age 29)
  • Mormon Battalion Sick Detachment
  • McArthur Side

Sarah Ann Anterbury Church, wife of Hayden, (age 23) and child (Hyrum Smith-1). 
  • Abraham O. Smoot - George B. Wallace Company 
  • McArthur Side

1848
Duncan McArthur (age 52) & Susan McKeen McArthur (age 47) and child (Susan Amanda-4). 
  • Brigham Young Company

Daniel D. (age 28) & Matilda Carolina Fuller McArthur (age 28) & their children (Andrew Bird-5, Daniel D. Jr.-infant).  
  • Brigham Young Company
  • Daniel D. Jr. was born 15 miles west of Devils gate on the banks of the Sweet water.

Samuel Miles Jr. (age 22)
  • Company Unknown
  • Samuel and Hannah marry in 1849, so I wonder if they were in the same company?
  • McArthur Side

Hannah Miranda Colborn (age 17)
  • Brigham Young Company
  • McArthur Side

Thomas Colborn (age 46) and Sarah Bower Colborn (age 47) and their children (Sarah Matilda-13, & Rosina-11).  
  • Heber C. Kimball Compnay
  • McArthur Side

James Bullock (age 41) and Mary Hill Bullock (age 35) and their children: Alexander-10, Elizabeth-6, Mary Catherine-1, 
  • Brigham Young Company
  • They had a 7 year old daughter, Janet, and a 2 year old daughter, Isabel, who both died at Winter Quarters. Janet died in February 1947 and Isabel in April 1947. Mary Catherine was born Feb 1847 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
  • McArthur Side

1849
Prudence Marks Miles (age 54) and her children (William Marks-21,  & Sarah Simonds-17)
  • Ezra T. Benson Company
  • Wife of Samuel Miles Sr who died in 1847 in St. Loius county, Missouri. 
  • McArthur Side

1852
John Lowe Butler (age 44) & Caroline Farozine Skeen (age 40) and their children: Kenion Taylor-20, Charity Artemesia-17, Keziah Jane-16, Phoebe Melinda-13, Caroline Elizabeth-12, Sarah Adeline-11, John Lowe Jr-8, James Butler-5, Lucy Ann-3, & Butler Thomas-1. 
  • Eli B. Kelsey Company
  • McArthur Side

1854
John Grant Bagley (age 18) son of Edward & Julia Bagley. 
  • James Brown Company
  • He began traveling with the James Brown company, but was asked to be a teamster in Orson Pratt's "Church Train" and completed the journey with them.
  • He left with the Saints in their local Branch one year before his family did (because his mom had just had a new baby).  
  • He got sick with the Cholera and though many others died, he was healed (when he was confirmed a member, he had been promised that he would live to reside with the Saints. He valued that promise "more than gold"). 
  • Stone Side

1855
Edward Cyrenius Bagley (age 40) & Julia Ann Grant Bagley (age 39) and their children: (Charles Steward-20, George Ford-17, David-15, William Henry-13, Cyrenius-11, Joseph Smith-10, Edward Alma-8, Cynthia Ann Eliza-6, Francis Mortimer-4, Hyrum Alvin-1). Their son John Grant Bagley, had left a year earlier with the other saints in the local Branch. 
  • Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company
  • Julia died from Cholera en-route and a short time later Cyrenius & George Ford died too. Somewhere in Kansas territory. (George Ford is not listed as part of the company on the Pioneer Overland Travel--why? I submitted this to the web 3/1/13 CH15819).
  • Stone Side

Thomas Colborn (age 53)
  • Isaac Alldred Freight Train
  • McArthur Side

Handcarts: 
1856
Daniel D. McArthur (age 36)  
  • Daniel D. McArthur Company (He was captain).
  • 2nd handcart company had about 220 individuals, 44 handcarts, and 2 wagons in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Iowa City, Iowa.
  • On his return from a 4 year mission in Scotland.  

Hayden Wells Church (age 38)
  • John Banks Company
  • McArthur Side

1858
Charles Staply Sr. (age 57) and Sarah Watson Bryant Stapley (age 55) and their children (Thomas-26, Semour-24, James-19, Sarah-14, & John 11).  
  • Nathan C. Tenney Company
  • McArthur Side

Charles Stapley Jr. (age 32) & Sarah Parkinson Stapley (age 26) and their children (John Edward Rodwell-7, Sarah Ann Rodwell-5, & Harriet Elizabeth-2) 
  • Nathan C. Tenney Company
  • McArthur Side

Samuel Miles Jr. (age 31) 
  • Orson Pratt/Ezra T. Benson Company
  • McArthur Side

1861
Joseph Oxborrow (age 38?) and Jannet Potter Oxborrow (age 44??). 
  • David H. Cannon Compnay
  • Joseph later marries Mary Leicht. 
  • The Pioneer Overland Travel has their ages listed different than familysearch.  
  • McArthur Side

1863 
Daniel D. McArthur (age 42)
  • Daniel D. McArthur Company (He was captain).
  • 500 individuals and 75 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Florence, Nebraska (now Omaha).

1864
Mary Leicht Oxborrow (age 11)
  • William S. Warren Company
  • Mary is listed as Mary Cornwell because her step mom (Mary Ann Hunt Leicht) remarried to John Cornewll during their voyage across the ocean.
  • McArthur Side 

1868
Daniel D. McArthur (age 48)  
  • Daniel D. McArthur Company (He was captain).
  • 411 individuals and 51 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.




Notes: 
  • There is a Hamilton Monroe Wallace & Elizabeth Wallace listed in the 1855 William McBride company, but they just don't match up with the right ages? Need more information.