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Joseph Orson Egbert

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Joseph Orson Egbert

Birth
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Death
27 Jul 1849 (aged 6 months)
Merrick County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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FAMILY SEARCH. When Joseph Orson Egbert was born on 28 December 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, his father, Joseph Teasdale Egbert (1818-1898), was 30 and his mother, Mary Caroline Allred (1824-1880), was 24. He died on 27 July 1849, in Merrick, Nebraska, while traveling with his family in the Allen Taylor Pioneer Company. The company departed from Council Bluffs, Nebraska on 5-6 July 1849 and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah 10-20 October 1849.

Allen Taylor (1814-1891) was the captain of the hundreds, the fifth company of 1848. Many wagons in Young's 1848 company were being pulled by teams that were "on loan" from the Pottawattamie Saints. When the company reached the Sweetwater River, word was received that reinforcement teams were on their way from the Salt Lake Valley, so on 30 August, Allen Taylor was asked leave the company and return the borrowed teams to Winter Quarters so they could be used the following year as well.

His obituary says that "The deceased came out with President Brigham Young in 1848 as far as the upper crossing of the Sweetwater and was captain of [a hundred in] the company. He returned to the Bluffs and came to Utah with his own family the next year."
FAMILY SEARCH. When Joseph Orson Egbert was born on 28 December 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, his father, Joseph Teasdale Egbert (1818-1898), was 30 and his mother, Mary Caroline Allred (1824-1880), was 24. He died on 27 July 1849, in Merrick, Nebraska, while traveling with his family in the Allen Taylor Pioneer Company. The company departed from Council Bluffs, Nebraska on 5-6 July 1849 and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah 10-20 October 1849.

Allen Taylor (1814-1891) was the captain of the hundreds, the fifth company of 1848. Many wagons in Young's 1848 company were being pulled by teams that were "on loan" from the Pottawattamie Saints. When the company reached the Sweetwater River, word was received that reinforcement teams were on their way from the Salt Lake Valley, so on 30 August, Allen Taylor was asked leave the company and return the borrowed teams to Winter Quarters so they could be used the following year as well.

His obituary says that "The deceased came out with President Brigham Young in 1848 as far as the upper crossing of the Sweetwater and was captain of [a hundred in] the company. He returned to the Bluffs and came to Utah with his own family the next year."

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