Robert Crow 1857 Pioneer Company

Robert Crow 1857 Pioneer Company: This small company of 26 people and 7 wagons departed from San Bernardino, California, en route to Utah. They crossed the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas via the California-Salt Lake Road. The company disbanded at Santa Clara, Utah, with some of the party continuing further north.

Company History
William Crosby led them from Mississippi, as far as Fort Pueblo, where they spent the winter. Most of the group continued on in the spring of 1847, under the direction of Amasa Lyman, who was sent from Brigham Young's vanguard company to collect them, arriving in July of 1847.

The Howard Egan account indicates that at the time the company met up with Brigham Young's 1847 company, after wintering at Fort Pueblo, that there were 161 people in the company and "They have five wagons, one cart, eleven horses, twenty-four oxen, twenty-two cows, three bulls and seven calves. The number of animals in the camp are ninety-six horses, fifty-one mules, ninety oxen, forty-three cows, nine calves, three bulls, sixteen chickens, sixteen dogs, seventy-nine wagons and one cart."

Reference Sources

 * Robert Crow 1857 Company - LDS History Pioneer Overland Companies
 * Hurst, Frederick William, Autobiography and diaries, vol. 3, 13 Nov. 1857-30 Jan. 1858.

List of Passengers
Name / Age / Birthdate / Deathdate
 * 1) Crisman, [Brother] 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Unknown
 * 2)  Crow, Benjamin Brown 	38 	5 April 1819 	10 May 1897
 * 3)  Crow, Elizabeth 	62 	1 April 1795 	25 May 1870
 * 4)  Crow, Ira Minda Almarene 	24 	21 October 1833 	1 January 1860
 * 5)  Crow, Robert 	63 	22 June 1794 	29 May 1876
 * 6) Hamblin, Jacob 	38 	2 April 1819 	31 August 1886  (Famous Western pioneer, Mormon missionary and diplomat to the indian tribes)
 * 7) Hendry, George F. 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Unknown
 * 8) Holdaway, Mary Elizabeth 	54 	8 February 1803 	5 May 1873
 * 9) Hurst, Frederick William 	24 	30 June 1833 	31 October 1918
 * 10) Hurst, Heber 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Unknown
 * 11) Hyatt, Elisha 	42 	25 December 1814 	13 September 1889
 * 12) Hyatt, Matilda Martha 	46 	16 February 1811 	29 November 1892
 * 13) Lunceford, Cynthia Mary 	10 	6 September 1847 	31 March 1923
 * 14) Lunceford, Nancy Emeline 	16 	4 December 1840 	18 October 1905
 * 15) Lunceford, Samuel 	24 	6 December 1832 	6 September 1889
 * 16) Lunceford, Sarah Malvina 	13 	18 February 1844 	1 June 1922
 * 17) Lunceford, William Trent 	19 	7 August 1838 	3 May 1927
 * 18) Whitlock, Parintha 	18 	1839 	Unknown
 * 19) Whitlock, [Sister] 	Unknown 	Unknown 	Unknown

Robert Crow 1857 Pioneer Company
Numbered amoung the participants in the Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train. This small company of 26 people and 7 wagons departed from San Bernardino, California, en route to Utah. They crossed the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas via the California-Salt Lake Road. The company disbanded at Santa Clara, Utah, with some of the party continuing further north.