Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Sperry, Charles
Birth Date: 30 June 1829
Death Date: 31 May 1914
Gender: Male
Age: 17 at time of crossing
Company: Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company (1847)
Departure: 19 June 1847
Arrival: 4 October 1847
Company Information:
160 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Family that traveled with them:
Sperry, Harrison (15)
Sperry, William Lamont (23)
Source of Trail Excerpt:
Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], 2-3.
Read Trail Excerpt:
We soon began to prepare our wagons for starting and looking after our teams. We left Hyland Grove about the middle of June with three yoke of oxen and two wagons and 3 cows. Crosed the Mosary [Missouri] river the 3rd day. Made our wasy [way] to the Elk Horn and ferred that stream on a logg raft. Left there about the last of June. We ware orgenised into Jedediah [Morgan] Grants and Willerds [Willard Trowbridge] Snows fifty[.] then we took our jurny westward. Sometimes there was so manny compeneys camped clost together that it was ncecessary to travel in too or three columns. There was a gard cald out to go with the cattle when we camped. Sometimes the cattle remaind out all night but very often they ware brought up and correld. We kept gard in our camp as well as with our cattle. We traveld up the Platt[e] river for nundreds of miles. Fort Laremy [Laramie] was about 500 miles from Elk Horn. We crost the Plat[te] river at that place for the first time. We got into the Salt Lake valley with 5 oxen, 3 cows, 2 wagons. Near the first part of Oct. 1847 we arrived.
LDS.org/churchhistory
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Sperry, Joy (Father)
Lamont, Mary (Mother)
He was a Bishop, Counselor and Sheriff of Juab County.
Sperry, Charles
Birth Date: 30 June 1829
Death Date: 31 May 1914
Gender: Male
Age: 17 at time of crossing
Company: Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company (1847)
Departure: 19 June 1847
Arrival: 4 October 1847
Company Information:
160 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Family that traveled with them:
Sperry, Harrison (15)
Sperry, William Lamont (23)
Source of Trail Excerpt:
Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], 2-3.
Read Trail Excerpt:
We soon began to prepare our wagons for starting and looking after our teams. We left Hyland Grove about the middle of June with three yoke of oxen and two wagons and 3 cows. Crosed the Mosary [Missouri] river the 3rd day. Made our wasy [way] to the Elk Horn and ferred that stream on a logg raft. Left there about the last of June. We ware orgenised into Jedediah [Morgan] Grants and Willerds [Willard Trowbridge] Snows fifty[.] then we took our jurny westward. Sometimes there was so manny compeneys camped clost together that it was ncecessary to travel in too or three columns. There was a gard cald out to go with the cattle when we camped. Sometimes the cattle remaind out all night but very often they ware brought up and correld. We kept gard in our camp as well as with our cattle. We traveld up the Platt[e] river for nundreds of miles. Fort Laremy [Laramie] was about 500 miles from Elk Horn. We crost the Plat[te] river at that place for the first time. We got into the Salt Lake valley with 5 oxen, 3 cows, 2 wagons. Near the first part of Oct. 1847 we arrived.
LDS.org/churchhistory
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Sperry, Joy (Father)
Lamont, Mary (Mother)
He was a Bishop, Counselor and Sheriff of Juab County.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Sperry, Charles
Birth Date: 30 June 1829
Death Date: 31 May 1914
Gender: Male
Age: 17 at time of crossing
Company: Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company (1847)
Departure: 19 June 1847
Arrival: 4 October 1847
Company Information:
160 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Family that traveled with them:
Sperry, Harrison (15)
Sperry, William Lamont (23)
Source of Trail Excerpt:
Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], 2-3.
Read Trail Excerpt:
We soon began to prepare our wagons for starting and looking after our teams. We left Hyland Grove about the middle of June with three yoke of oxen and two wagons and 3 cows. Crosed the Mosary [Missouri] river the 3rd day. Made our wasy [way] to the Elk Horn and ferred that stream on a logg raft. Left there about the last of June. We ware orgenised into Jedediah [Morgan] Grants and Willerds [Willard Trowbridge] Snows fifty[.] then we took our jurny westward. Sometimes there was so manny compeneys camped clost together that it was ncecessary to travel in too or three columns. There was a gard cald out to go with the cattle when we camped. Sometimes the cattle remaind out all night but very often they ware brought up and correld. We kept gard in our camp as well as with our cattle. We traveld up the Platt[e] river for nundreds of miles. Fort Laremy [Laramie] was about 500 miles from Elk Horn. We crost the Plat[te] river at that place for the first time. We got into the Salt Lake valley with 5 oxen, 3 cows, 2 wagons. Near the first part of Oct. 1847 we arrived.
LDS.org/churchhistory
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Sperry, Joy (Father)
Lamont, Mary (Mother)
He was a Bishop, Counselor and Sheriff of Juab County.
Sperry, Charles
Birth Date: 30 June 1829
Death Date: 31 May 1914
Gender: Male
Age: 17 at time of crossing
Company: Jedediah M. Grant - Willard Snow Company (1847)
Departure: 19 June 1847
Arrival: 4 October 1847
Company Information:
160 individuals were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post on the Elkhorn River about 27 miles west of Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Family that traveled with them:
Sperry, Harrison (15)
Sperry, William Lamont (23)
Source of Trail Excerpt:
Sperry, Charles, Autobiographical sketch [n.d.], 2-3.
Read Trail Excerpt:
We soon began to prepare our wagons for starting and looking after our teams. We left Hyland Grove about the middle of June with three yoke of oxen and two wagons and 3 cows. Crosed the Mosary [Missouri] river the 3rd day. Made our wasy [way] to the Elk Horn and ferred that stream on a logg raft. Left there about the last of June. We ware orgenised into Jedediah [Morgan] Grants and Willerds [Willard Trowbridge] Snows fifty[.] then we took our jurny westward. Sometimes there was so manny compeneys camped clost together that it was ncecessary to travel in too or three columns. There was a gard cald out to go with the cattle when we camped. Sometimes the cattle remaind out all night but very often they ware brought up and correld. We kept gard in our camp as well as with our cattle. We traveld up the Platt[e] river for nundreds of miles. Fort Laremy [Laramie] was about 500 miles from Elk Horn. We crost the Plat[te] river at that place for the first time. We got into the Salt Lake valley with 5 oxen, 3 cows, 2 wagons. Near the first part of Oct. 1847 we arrived.
LDS.org/churchhistory
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Sperry, Joy (Father)
Lamont, Mary (Mother)
He was a Bishop, Counselor and Sheriff of Juab County.
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