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James G. Willie Emigrating Company

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Mildred Johnson collection of biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333814]
Identifier: MSS 1150
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten biographies. The items deal with the Rowley family in the Willie handcart company of 1856 and the Rowley family in Utah. These materials were probably written by the same author at an unknown time.

Dates: ca. 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mildred Johnson collection of biographies

Sketch of Catherine Cunningham Adams : taken from the other biographies and Church history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332428]
Identifier: MSS SC 3282
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biogaphy of Catherine Cunningham Adams. Adams was born in Scotland in 1838, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie handcart company in 1856. She married, had 11 children, and died in 1912.

Dates: approximately 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Sketch of Catherine Cunningham Adams : taken from the other biographies and Church history

Thomas Moulton history

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235232532]
Identifier: MSS 8139
Scope and Contents

Typed biography of Thomas Moulton and family. Includes a description of their conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, their passage with the Willie Handcart Company, and their settling in Provo and Heber City, Utah. The document is undated, but appears to have been compiled some time after 1940.

Dates: after 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Moulton history

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