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Subject: [HANDCART-L] Philpot
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:32:40 EST

In a message dated 3/6/01 1:48:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> I am looking for any information or idea's on how to find info on the
> Philpot
> family that traveled with the Handcart Company in 1856.
>


1856—Fourth Company—James G. Willie, Captain
PHILPOT, William 51, wife, Eliza 36, daughters, Julia M. 13, Martha 11.


Philpot, William  22 Nov 1805 - 17 Oct 1856
Members of The Willie and Martin Handcart Companies of 1856 by Susan Ward
Easton.  Provo, Utah:  Brigham Young University, 1980. @ p.32
(also other members of family listed)

>From Susan Easton Black's work:
Members of the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies...
Willie Company...
Philpot, William
Born:    22 November 1805 in Fordingbridge, Hmpshr., England
    Son of William Philpot and Hannah Curtis
Married:    to Eliza Hancock
Died:    17 October 1856

Philpot, Eliza Hancock
Born:    1820
Died:    22 October 1856

Philpot, Julia M
Born:    2l April 1842 in Southampton, Hmpshr., England
    Daughter of William Philpot and Sarah Ann Elcock
Married:    to Oliver P Thomas
Died:    5 November 1935

Philpot, Martha Eliza
Born:    12 April 1845 in Southampton, Hmpshr., England
    Daughter of William Philpot and Sarah Ann Elcock
Married:    9 June 1859 to Benjamin Boice
Died:    29 October 1872

Those who died enroute...

Philpot, Eliza Hancock
Philpot, William


The best way to find out about these folks is to read the journals of others
on the trip.  Certainly much as been written on this particular handcart
company..and you can assume that they suffered the same joys, sorrows and
adversity rather universally in those companies.

Michele Brooks

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