Price Family

Method of travel to the Salt Lake Valley 

Cyrus Wheelock Company 1853 

Thomas Walton Price 

Jane Rowley Colley Price 

John Walton Price 

Price Family ... Joining the Mormon Church and Coming to America 

Thomas Walton Price born in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, England 1793 
(First to join the Church along with his wife Jane Rowley Colley Price) 

Jane Rowley Colley Price born in Whitboume, Herefordshire, England 1801 

John Walton Price born in Whitboume, Herefordshire, England 1833 

Neither Thomas nor Jane wrote firsthand experiences of their travels, but we do know that 

the family immigrated to Utah in 1853. 

The Walton/Price family was baptized into the Mormon Church 10 October 1841 In England. 

Editor's Note... Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad: May 10, 1869 

I he transcontinental Railroad's impact was huge, dramatically reducing travel time for crossing the country to a 
mere six days from the previous four to six months required by wagon train or walking. It linked the growing 
economic markets of the Midwest with California. It also reduced traveling costs, down from $1000 for first class 
stagecoach to S 1 50 for first class sleeper car on the train. The railroad also helped fulfill the promise of Manifest 
Destiny, the term used for westward expansion of the United States. Because of the convenience of transportation 
the frontier was altered, transformed and disrupted. By 1875 southern buffalo herds were wiped out and by 1885 
northern buffalo herds were wiped out by companies of hunters harvesting buffalo skins. Many nomadic Native 
American then had depended on these herds for survival. It also led to the development of many towns along the 
rail lines, eventually eliminating of the "Frontier" in American society. 



Thomas Walton Price 
Jane Colley Price 

and their son 
John Walton Price 



Cyrus H. Wheelock Company (1853) 



Departure: 1-3 June 1853 
Arrival: 6-16 October 1853 



Family members who traveled in this company. 



About 400 individuals and 52 wagons were 
in the company when it began its journey 
from the outfitting post at Keokuk, Iowa. It 
also included a California company. They 
crossed the Missouri River on 1 1 July 1853. 



Thomas Walton, (60) 
Jane Colley Walton, (52) 

Joseph Walton, (23) 

George Walton, (21) 

John Walton, (19) 

Jane Walton, (11)