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1861 Wagon train in Echo Canyon

Benjamin Clapp 1856 Pioneer Company was on of many Mormon Pioneer Wagon Companies of who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley. This one was led by Benjamin Lynn Clapp (1814-1865) who was returning home after completing a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Texas. It departed from Iowa City, Iowa and arrive about 21 Sept 1856 in Salt Lake City.


Company History[]

Reference Sources[]

  • Benjamin L Clapp Company - LDS History Pioneer Overland Companies
  • "Arrivals," Deseret News [Weekly], 17 Sept. 1856, 221.
  • "Arrived," Deseret News [Weekly], 24 Sep. 1856, 229.
  • Bullock, Thomas, "Interesting from our Missionaries on the Plains," The Mormon, 15 November 1856, 2.
  • J[aques], J[ohn], "Some Reminiscences," Salt Lake Daily Herald, 29 December 1878, 1.
  • "News from Elders," Deseret News [Weekly], 11 June 1856, 109.
  • Woolsey, Elnora Jane Miles, Autobiographical sketch, in Stella H. Day, comp., Builders of Early Millard: Biographies of Pioneers of Millard County, 1850 to 1875 [1979], 777-78.


List of Passengers[]

NAME AGE BIRTHDATE DEATHDATE

  • Allen, William M. Unknown Unknown Unknown - returning from mission to Texas.
  • Clapp, Benjamin Lynn 41 19 August 1814 31 October 1865 - Member Seven Presidents of the Seventy - returning from mission to Texas.
  • Coley, Demy James 41 ca. 1814 Unknown
  • Coley, Elizabeth 35 12 May 1820 15 September 1856
  • Coley, [Brother] Unknown unknown unknown
  • Corlile, [Sister] Unknown Unknown Unknown
  • Dabrell, [Brother] Unknown Unknown Unknown
  • Eastmo, [Sister] Unknown Unknown Unknown
  • Godby, Bill Unknown Unknown Unknown
  • Hanson, Bodil Boel 23 15 September 1832 29 August 1909
  • Hickerson, George Washington 42 13 December 1813 17 August 1884
  • Miles, Catherine 39 2 February 1816 2 April 1897
  • Miles, Elnora Jane 13 5 August 1842 12 September 1911
  • Miles, Granderson Lee 17 4 October 1838 17 September 1917
  • Miles, Maria Catherine 4 28 October 1851 5 October 1916
  • Miles, Melinda Ann 11 18 January 1844 23 July 1923
  • Miles, William Morgan 15 11 September 1840 1856
  • Mortensen, Ane Kjersten 18 14 September 1837 12 April 1898 - md Capt. Clapp soon after arrival in Salt Lake City. Mortensens and Nielsens arrived from Denmark in 1855.
  • Mortensen, Emma Inger 13 7 March 1842 9 March 1886
  • Mortensen, Morten 16 24 October 1839 Unknown
  • Nielson, Dorothea Maria 20 3 February 1835 3 May 1864 (Sister of Ane Mortensen)
  • Nielson, Lars Bertelsen 22 15 September 1833 25 May 1916

Recap[]

1856 Clapp Wagon Company[]

Wagontrain1861

Numbered amoung the participants in the Benjamin Clapp 1856 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train traveling from Iowa City, Iowa to Salt Lake City in the early summer, arriving there circa 21 Sep 1856. It was led by Elder Benjamin L. Clapp, one of the Seven Presidents of the Seventy of the LDS Church, who was returning home from a mission to Texas. Several diary/biographical accounts exist for this group.

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