Individual Details

Daniel Stillwell Thomas

(15 Mar 1803 - 27 Jun 1878)



Last born child.

Went to Utah with the Allen Taylor Company in 1849.
Was captain of the 2nd ten.
His death date is confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone and the Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
His travel to Utah is mentioned in the obituary of his daughter.

Morgan, Jesse, Journal, in Martha M. Morgan, A Trip Across the Plains in the Year 1849 with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama [1864; reprint 1983], 7-20.
Left St. Joseph for California via Salt Lake, May 24th, 1849....
Sept. 7th—Stopped on the Plains until Capt. Thomas came up. We stopped over night, and then traveled seventeen miles over hills and hot sand, and encamped three miles west of Willow Springs. At these Springs we found the remains of some ten or twelve wagons, which clearly evinced a vast destruction of property;

Events

Birth15 Mar 1803Sumner County, Tennessee
Death27 Jun 1878Lehi, Utah County, Utah
Mormon PioneerAllen Taylor Company, 1849

Families

FatherHenry Thomas (1758 - 1837)
MotherRachel Stillwell (1759 - 1837)