Members of the First Brigham Young Company of 1847
This pioneer vanguard of the Mormon migration which, began the treck West in 1847 consisted of the following 149 souls. Of this group there were 144 men, three women, the wives of Brigham Young (Clarissa Decker Young), Lorenzo D. Young, (Harriet Page Wheeler Young) and Heber C. Kimball (Ellen Saunders Kimball. Harriet Page Wheeler Young is the mother of the two small boys, Isaac P. Decker and Lorenzo S. Young.
Oxen are driven by walking along side the lead pair with a switch, making the "Yew" & "Yaw" calls for the oxen to move right or left. A lot of folks think that they were driven like a horse team, but that is just not so, as the photograph to the right shows. Almost everyone walked all the way to the Great Basin, that is the speed at which oxen ponder over the ground. Lots of folks got steped upon once or more, which is one of the few ways you got to ride in the wagon, and not walk.
| Captains of Ten | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
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| 1st | Wilford Woodruff | John S. Fowler | Jacob D. Burnham | Orson Pratt | Joseph Egbert | John M. Freeman | Marcus B. Thorpe | George A. Smith | George Wardle | |||||
| 2nd | Ezera T. Benson | Thomas B. Grover | Barnabas L. Adams | Roswell Stevens | Amasa M. Lyman | Starling Driggs | Albert Carrington | Thomas Bullock | George Brown | Willard Richards | Jesse C. Little | |||
| 3rd | Phinehas H. Young | John Y. Green | Thomas Tanner | Brigham Young | Addison Everett | Truman O. Angell | Lorenzo D. Young | Bryant Stringham | Joseph S. Scofield | Albeert P. Rockwood (Captain of 100) | Harriet Page Wheeler Young | Clarissa Decker Young | Isaac Perry Decker | Lorenzo Sobieski Young |
| 4th | Luke S. Johnson | John Holman | Edmmund Ellsworth | Sidney Alvarus Hanks | George R. Grant | Millen Atwood | Samuel B. Fox | Tunis Rappleyee | Harry Pierce | William Dykes | Jacob Weiler | |||
| 5th | Stephen H. Goddard | Tarlton Lewis (Captain of 50) | Henry G. Sherwood | Zebedee Coltrin | Sylvester Henry Earl | John Dixon | Samuel H. Marble | George Scholes | William Henrie | William A. Empey | ||||
| 6th | Charles Shumway | Andrew P. Shumway | Thomas Woolsey | Chauncey Loveland | Erastus Snow | James Craig | William Wardsworth | William Vance | Simeon Howd | Seeley Owen | ||||
| 7th | James Case | Artemas Johnson | William C. A.Smoot | Franklin B. Dewey | William Carter | Frankllin G. Losee | Burr Frost | Horace Datus Ensign | Franklin B. Stewart | Monroe Frink | Eric Glines | Ozro Eastman | ||
| 8th | Seth Taft | Horace Thornton | Stephen Kelsey | John S. Eldredge | Charles D. Barnum | Alma M. Williams | Rufus Allen | Robert T. Thomas | James W. Stewart | Elijah Newman | Levi N. Kendall | Francis Boggs | David Grant | |
| 9th | Howard Egan | Heber C. Kimball | William A. King | Thomas Cloward | Hosea Cushing | Robert Byard | George Billings | Edson Whipple | Philo Johnson | William Clayton | Ellen Saunders Kimball | |||
| 10th | Appleton M. Harmon | Carlos Murray | Horace K. Whitney | Orson K. Whitney | Orrin P. Rockwell | Nathaniel T. Brown | R. Jackson Redding | John Pack (Captain of 50) | Francis Pomeroy | Aaron Farr | Nathaniel Fairbanks | |||
| 11th | John S. Higbee | John Wheeler | Solomon Chamberlain | Conrad Klineman | Joseph Rooker | Perry Fitzgerald | John H. Tippets | James Davenport | Henson Walker | Benjamin Rolfe | ||||
| 12th | Norton Jacobs | Charles A. Harper | George Woodard | Stephen Markham (Captain of 100) | Lewis Barney | George Mills | Andrew Gibbons | Joseph Hancock | John W. Norton | |||||
| 13th | John Brown | Shadrach Roundy (Captain of 50) | Levi Jackman | Lyman Curtis | Hans C. Hansen | Matthew Ivory | David Powers | Hark Lay (Colored) | Osscar Crosby (Colored) | |||||
| 14th | Joseph Matthews | Gilbroid Summe | John Gleason | Charles Burke | Alexander P. Chessley | Rodney Badger | Norman Taylor | Green Flake (Colored) | Ellis Eames |