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Known rescuers of the Willie, Martin, Hodgett, Hunt Pioneer Emigrating Companies of 1856

Adams, Henry (39)

Adams, Nathan (24)

Alexander, Thomas Murphy (26)

Allen, Marshall Franklin (23)

Allen, Frank (36)

Allred, Harry

Allred, Paulinas H. (27)

Allred, Reddick N. (34)

Alvord, Joseph B. (26)

Amussen, Captain

Atkinson, William (42)

Bailey, John

Bain, Robert Angus (26)

Bankhead, (Tom, Dan, or Nathan)

Baker, Amenzo White (24)

Barker, James (29)

Barlow, Israel (50)

Baum, George (27)

Baum, Isaac (22)

Bean, George Washington (25)

Beck, T.H.

Beckstead, Henry

Bell, William Milton (23)

Bennett, Brother

Bennion, Samuel (38)

Berry, John W. (32)

Bigler, Mark

Billingham, Daniel (daughter, Eliza in Martin Co.)

Bingham, J.

Blackburn, Elias (29)

Blackham, John

Blair, Brother

Blair, Seth M. (37)

Booth, Edwin

Bowman, George

Boyce, William (33)

Brimhall, Noah (30)

Broomhead, William K.

Brown, Gurnsey (32)

Brown, Newel Abraham (19)

Brown, Thomas Dunlop (35)

Buckwalter, Henry (25)

Bullock, Isaac (32)

Bullock, Thomas (40

Bunnell, George Henry

Bunnell, Stephen I. (22)

Burton, Robert T. (36) Clerk
Robert T. Burton, General Authority
Utah State History

Butler, Taylor (25)

Call, Anson (46)

Carter, William (35)

Clawson, George (29)

Cloward, Jack (James Mason Cloward (30)?)

Cluff, Joseph (22)

Cluff, Harvey H. (20)

Cole, James Barnet (28))

Cole, Moroni (23)

Cole, John (36)

Comish, John

Condie, Gibson (21)

Cooper, Isaac (49) wagon of own flour

Cordingly, William

Cornia, Peter (Pierre) (27)

Cousins, Samuel (19)

Cowley, William Michael (19)

Crandall, Martin (26)

Dalton, George

Davis, James (30)

Dawson, William

Decker, Charles F. (32) Scout, Captain 1st 10

Devenish, Henry (50)

Driggs, Benjamin Woodbury (19)

Duke, James

Dunn, George (44)

Dunn, James (Jimmy) (46)

Dunyon, John Lewis (56)

Durfee, H.D.

Earl, Jacob Syher (33)

Ekins, John

Elder, Joseph (21)

Ellis, Joseph

Elmer, Elijah (46)

Elmer, William (36)

Ensign, Rufus Bronson (33)

Ensign, Lorin

Evans, Israel (28)

Everett, Schuyler (21)

Fairbanks, Amos

Farmer, James (32)

Ferguson, James (28)

Follett, Brother

Forsyth, George James (12)

Forsyth, Thomas Robert (43)

Foss, Brother (Ezra (23)?)

Fuller, Sanford (25)

Gardner, Alfred

Gardner, Elias (49)

Gardner, Henry (16)

Garr, Abel (22)

Garr, David

Garr, John (29)

Gibbs, Gideon D.

Goddard, George

Goldsbrough, Henry (33)

Gould, Brother

Grant, George D. (44) Captain

Grant, George W. (16) – Son of George D. – 1 of 4 named boys who carried Martin Co. members across Sweetwater into Martin’s Cove

Grant, Lewis McKeachie (18)

Green, Alonzo

Grey, Charles

Haight, William Van Orden (15)

Hampton, Benjamin (19)

Handsome Cupid (unknown man referred to by Dan W. Jones) (NOT Spencer Condie as indicated in book Second Rescue by Susan A. Madsen)

Hanks, Ephraim K. (29)

Harvey, John

Hawkins, John Bennett

Hawley, Asa (21)

Hill, Brother

Hinckley, Arza Erastus (30)

Hogan, Goudy (27)

Horne, Henry James (19)

Hubbard, Elisha (18 or 40)

Huffaker, David (44)

Hunting, Nathan (17)

Hunting, William (17)

Huntington, Clark Allen (24) – 1 of 4 named boys who carried Martin Co. members across Sweetwater into Martin’s Cove

Huntington, Oliver (33)

Hyde, William

Ivie, James (26)

Ivins, Israel (Corbett)

Jack, James

Jeremy, Thomas Jr. (16)

Johnson, Daniel

Jones, Daniel W. (26)

Jones, William Robert

Judd, Riley (33)

Kilbourne, Ozias Jr. (46)

Kimball, David Patton (17) – 1 of 4 named boys who carried Martin Co. members across Sweetwater into Martin’s Cove

Kimball, Heber Parley (21)

Kimball, William H. (31) Sargeant of the Guard

King, R. Edison (22)

Knight, Gates A.

Lee, Edward

Lee, Edwin (24)

Lee, Thomas (28 or 33)

Lemon, Brother

Linton, Samuel (29)

Little, Feramorz (36)

Lott, John S. (30)

Maddison, John F. (24)

Matson, George B. (29)

Maxfield, Elijah

Maycock, Amos

McAllister, John D. T. (29) – Wrote Handcart Song

McDonald, John (26)

McDonnell, Henry

McFarlin, James ?

McKenzie, George (abt. 20)

McLelland, Thomas (37)

Mecham, Brother

Mercer, John (38)

Merrill, George G. (15)

Miles, E. R. (18)

Mills, William G. (abt. 45)

Morrison, Brother

Moss, John (36)

Mott, Daniel (30)

Moyes, Brother

Murdock, John Riggs (30)

Nebeker, Ira (17)

Neibaur, Joseph William (21)

Newell, Horace

Nicol, Alexander

Nowlan, C.

Odekirk, Isaac Carter (47)

Odekirk, Thomas (16)

Odekirk, Heber (11)

Osborn, Dave (49)

Packard, Milan (26)

Palmer, Zemira (25) Staff

Parker, William (35)

Parrish, Joel (29)

Partington, William Edward

Partridge, Jonathan

Patten, George (28)

Peck, Edwin Martin (28)

Perkins, Brigham Young

Perkins, Franklin Monroe (27)

Perkins, Jesse (37)

Perkins, R. W. (Reuben?)

Perry, Alonzo Orson (20)

Poole, John Rawlston

Porter, Lyman Wight (23)

Pulsipher, Charles (26)

Pulsipher, William (18)

Pulsipher, John (29)

Reynolds, William Pitt (40)

Reynolds, Warren Ford

Rhodes, Alonzo D. (30)

Rice, Oscar (22)

Richardson, Ebenezer (42 or 19)

Ricks, Thomas Edwin (28)

Roberts, William D. (22)

Robinson, Edward

Robinson, William

Robison, Lewis (40)

Ross, James D. (32)

Roundy, Loren

Russell, H. M. (27)

Samson, Charles

Sanders, Moses Martin

Sanderson, Henry W. (28)

Sevy, George (24)

Shupe, James Wright (33)

Simmons, Joseph Marcellus (22)

Singleton, John (32)

Shipham, Thomas

Skeen, John

Skeen, Joseph (40)

Slater, Thomas

Smith, James

Smith, Joseph F. (Miller)

Smith, Lot (26)

Smith, William B. (42)

Smithies, Roberts

Soper, Richard

Southword, Henry

Spafford, William Nelson (29)

Spencer, Claudius Victor

Spencer, George (16)

Spencer, Hiram Theron (21)

Sperry, Harrison (24)

Staker, Brother

Standley, Franklin (25)

Stanton, D. W.

Steed, Thomas (29)

Stewart, Moroni (21)

Stout, Hosea (46)

Streeper, William Henry

Stringham, George (19)

Summers, George

Sumsion, William (18)

Sutherland, Edwin

Tait, William (38)

Talcott, Brother (Asahel? 44?)

Taylor, Stephen Wells (20)

Teeples, Sidney (19)

Terry, Joshua (32)

Thomas, Solomon

Tidwell, Peter (abt. 25)

Tracy, Mosiah (18)

VanCott, John (42)

Wachman, H. H.

Wadsworth, Abiah
Wadsworth, Joseph Warren (24), son of Abiah Wadsworth

Warren, William

Webb, Chauncey G. (19)

Webb, Edward Milo (18)

Wheelock, Angus (19?)

Wheelock, Cyrus H. (43) Chaplain

Whitbeck, John (abt. 35)

Whitman, Albert

Whitney, John

Wilken, David

Wilkens, Brother

Williams, Alexander (53)

Williams, James V. (25)

Wilson, H. W.

Wilson, Robert (37)

Wilson, Thomas Henry

Winn, Dennis Wilson (24)

Winn, Thomas Griffin (27)

Winn, William H. (23)

Winters, Jacob (32)

Winters, Oscar (31)

Winward, Peter (23)

Wood, David

Woolley, Franklin (22)

Woolley, Henry (35)

Woolley, John Wickersham (25)

Workman, Albert

Workman, Cornelius

Young, Brigham, Jr. (20)

Young, Joseph A. (22)






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