. . . Our family sailed from Liverpool on board the ship Olympus on the 4th of March, 1851. We sailed to New Orleans the later part of April. From Orleans we came by steamer and entered St. Louis, May 9th, 1851. Our family came over the plains in Captain Claudius Spencer's Company. We entered Salt Lake Valley September 17, and Tooele City November 5, 1853 . . . . [p. 2]

BIB: Tanner, Thomas. Autobiography (formerly in Msd 2050), p. 2. (CHL)
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