The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-15
CAPTAIN J. c.. WILLIE'S
Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856. No. l
JOSIAH ROBERTSON.

The names of this company will be
given first in place, for if ever in print
before, it is over fifty years ago.
The members of this company, main
ly, if not all, sailed from the Brammer-
ly-Moor docks at Liverpool, Lanca-
shire, England, in the ship Thornton.
May 4. 1856, landing at New York June
il. and arrived at Iowa Hill, near Iowa
City, Ia, about the 9th of june, 1856.
When the Mormon emigrants that
sailed from Liverpool. Lancashire, Eng
land, May %, in the Horizon, and COM
prising the whole of Martins handcart
company and Hunts and Hodgetts
wagon companies, arrived on Iowa
Hi, Ia. July and Q. 1856, Willie's
company was then nearly ready TO
leave that camp with their handcarts
and tents all made, wagons loaded with
provisions, etc, for the 1.350-mile jour
uey TO the Great Salt Lake valley,
Utah. and made their start on the 10th
or 18th of July, a day or two after
Martins company reached there.
Names of the company from Eng
land
Captain ]. G. Willie and william
Woodward. returning missionaries;
John ChisIett, Ann Osborn, Thomas
Moulton and family, Jesse Impey and
family, William Reed and family, Jo-
seph Osborn and family, Sarah Charles,
William Edwick, Alfred Peacock, Je-
NINA Rogers and daughter, Mary p.
Griffiths, Susannah Stone Mine A.
Cook, Sarah A Williams. Esther Mil
lard. Elizabeth lite, Betsey Stanley,
Mary A. Stockdale, Julia and Emily
Hill. the poGtess; Amelia Evans. Ce-
celia and Sarah Norris, the latter the
" fe of Elder Jenkins Evans and res
.dents of PaTowan. Iron county, Utah.
for the last fifty years; Mary A. and
Adelaide Cooper, David Reader and
family. Mary A. Bird and family, Jo-
seph Wall and wife. Benjamin Culley,
Rebecca Langman, RebeCca Pilgrim,
Elizabeth and Jane CulIey, Ann Oliver.
Ann Cooper, TheophiIus Copp. Thomas
Girdlestone and family. James Harren
and family. William Philpot and fam
lily, Rose Key and family, Sam Gadd
and family. Mary A. Perkins, John
Linford and family. Mary A. Miller.
Ann Howard Mary z. Breton, Mary
and Elizabeth flannel, Samuel Wits,
Ann Bryant, Thomas HoOley. Charles
Gunner and family, Anna and Mary
Kirby. John Nockolds Abraham Ore
and wife, George and Jane Brazier,
George Ingra and wife, Kitty Ann Tds-
sell, Ellen Toffield, Lucy Ward, James
Oliver. Elizabeth kirkpatrick, James
Gardner and family, William HALEY
and wife. Joseph Meadows and wife.
Mary and Hannah DOrney. Edward
Bowles and wife, Jane Rowley, Thomas
Oakley and family, Edward Wheeler
and family. Frederick Wall and wife,
Jenet and Mary Hodges, Emma Sum
mers, Sarah Steed, Martha Chetwin,
Mary Ann Newman Cwidow). her
daughters Eliza. Mary Ann, Caroline
and Ellen, and sons. William and John,
residents of ParOwan, Iron county,
Utah. since 1856; Sophia Cook and
daughter, Richard and Ann Godfrey,
Anna Herbert and son, Thomas and
EnOCh BOWles. John Roberts, William
Jeffry, Richard Hardwick, Richard
Turner, George HUMPHREYS and family,
Eliza Withom and son. Mercy Miller
and son. Elizabeth Painting and family,
James Read and family, Martha Camp
kin and family, John James, George
Curtis, William James and family,
Harriet and Ellen G. Shovel Sarah
West, Mary Roberts, Ellen Jones,
William Smith and wife, John Bailey
and family. Ann Rowley and family,
residents of ParOWan, Iron county,
Utah. for fifty years; William Page