Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company

Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company was led by

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

 * Mississippi Saints 1846 Company - LDS History Pioneer Overland Companies
 * Egan, Howard, Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878, ed. and comp. William M. Egan [1917] 21-105.
 * Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 29 July 1847, 3-9.
 * Kartchner, William Decatur, Reminiscences and diary 1878-1884, 27-32.
 * Names of Pueblo Soldiers and Mississippi brethren arrived in Great Salt Lake City, August 1847.
 * "R. T. Roberds," In An Illustrated History of Southern California (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890), 553.
 * Woodruff, Wilford, Journal, 1847 Jan.-1853 Dec., box 2, fd. 3, in Journals and papers 1828-1898, 26-77.

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Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company
Numbered amoung the participants in the Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train that left Mississippi in 1846 to join the Mormon exodus to Utah. This group Brigham Young's vanguard company and spent the winter of 1846/47 at  Fort Pueblo where the were joined by soldiers of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion. They reached Salt Lake City in late summer of 1847.