Dial Pioneer Ancestors


Stoddard, Charles

Birth Date: 8 May 1820
Death Date: 29 Apr. 1891
Gender: Male
Age: 32

Stoddard, Lucetta Jane

Birth Date: 2 Aug. 1814
Death Date: 19 Sep. 1886
Gender: Female
Age: 37

Stoddard, John Francis

Birth Date: 14 Sep. 1852
Death Date: 12 Feb. 1933
Gender: Male
Age: infant (born on the trail)

Uriah Curtis Company (1852)
Departure: 28 June 1852
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 29 September, 1 October 1852
Company Information: About 365 individuals and 51 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).


McBride, Abigail Mead

Birth Date:  29 Jan. 1770
Death Date:  12 Mar. 1854
Gender:  Female
Age:  77

Company: Edward Hunter - Jacob Foutz Company (1847)

Departure: 19 June 1847 
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 1 October 1847


Belnap, Gilbert

Birth Date: 22 Dec. 1821
Death Date: 26 Feb. 1899
Gender: Male
Age: 28

McBride, Henrietta

Birth Date: 1 Sep 1821
Death Date: 5 Sep 1899
Gender: Female
Age: 28

Company: Warren Foote Company (1850)

Departure: 17 June 1850
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 17-18, 26 September 1850

Company Information: About 540 individuals and 104 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).
(Hebrietta McBride possibly came in the Warren Foote Company or the Edward Hunter company with her mother.)

Source: Belnap, Gilbert, Autobiography, 1856, 41-44. (Read an excerpt.)


Mitchell, Benjamin Thomas

Birth Date: 12 Jan 1816
Death Date: 7 Mar 1880
Gender: Male
Age: 32

Mitchell, Caroline Deseret Conrad

Birth Date: 18 Sep 1828
Death Date: 18 Aug 1851
Gender: Female
Age: 20

Company: Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

Departure: 7 June 1848 
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 24 September 1848

Pioneer Information: Captain of Ten

Sources:

1850 Utah Census, Salt Lake Co., p. 7 
Jacob, Norton, Record, p. 100. 
Journal History, Supp. after 31 Dec. 1848, p. 12
Kimball, Heber C., Journal, June-Sep. 1848, in Kimball, Heber C., Papers, 1847-1866, reel 2, box 4, fd. 2 and fd. 3. [written by William Thompson]

Benjamin also led a company in 1854.

Benjamin Thomas Mitchell Company (1854) 

Did Benjamin's father Abraham also come in this company?


Winegar, Alvin

Birth Date: 13 May 1816
Death Date: 12 June 1874
Gender: Male
Age: 36

Winegar, Mary Judd

Birth Date: 26 July 1817
Death Date: 21 Apr. 1886
Gender: Female
Age: 34

Benjamin Gardner Company (1852)

Departure: 2-10 June 1852
Arrival in Salt Lake Valley: 24, 27 September 1852

Company Information: 241 individuals and 45 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Kanesville, Iowa (present day Council Bluffs).