John emigrated to America in 1863.
Elizabeth and her children settled in Tooele. Mary and Ann Eliza both married
Yorkshire on February 16,1845.
aboard the ship Manchester which arrived in the New York harbor
on 6 May 1862. They traveled from New York to Florence, Nebraska by train.
In Florence they joined the Joseph Horne wagon train and traveled
to Tooele, Utah Territory where they arrived in October 1862.
He sailed aboard the "Cynosure" from Liverpool.
He traveled by wagontrain to Utah.
He died in July 1864 at Emigration Canyon
and was buried in a grave which was covered over with rocks.
The family went back later to find his grave, but it
was never found.
and eventually moved from Tooele. John married and spent his life
in Tooele where he raised a family and helped settle Tooele.
Many of John's descendants still live in Tooele.
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