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Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Ahmanson, Johan August

Birth Date: 7 Apr. 1827
Death Date: 17 Aug. 1891
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Company: James G. Willie Company (1856)

Pioneer Information:
from Sweden; his wife and son were in Hodgetts's company; leader of the Scandinavian Saints in the Willie company

Sources:
"Immigration to Utah," Deseret News [Weekly], 15 Oct. 1856, 254.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
FamilySearch     Source Locations
James G. Willie Emigrating Company, Journal 1856 May-Nov., 16-53.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Journal History, 9 Nov. 1856, p. 29     Source Locations
Madsen, Peter, Diary 1856 Apr.-Sept., trans. Don H. Smith, 19-29.    Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Rogerson, Josiah, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 [No. 1]," Salt Lake Herald, 15 Dec. 1907.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Rogerson, Josiah, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 [No. 2]," Salt Lake Herald, 5 Jan. 1908.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Shrewsbury, Mary Burton, pseud., Reminiscence, in Mrs. T. B. H. [Fanny] Stenhouse, "Tell It All": The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism [1874], 206-36. [John Chislett is actual author according to Ron Walker, Journal of Mormon History 1 (1974): 64]    Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Smith, Marilyn Austin, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Woodward, William, Journal, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter, Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, reel 4, item 2e.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Woodward, William, Letter, 1907 to Joseph F. Smith, in Utah State Historical Society Cache Valley Chapter, Historical resource materials for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, 1955-1956, reel 5, item 1ab.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations
Woodward, William, to Wilford Woodruff, 17 Feb. 1857, in [Papers and rosters relating to emigration companies] 1846-1860s.   Read Trail Excerpt     Source Locations