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By Anne Curtis (via email)
In your archives under the heading of “Family pioneers” you have a list of family members who traveled with the early pioneer companies. Under the Uriah Curtis Sixteenth Company, you expressed uncertainty about the relationship of the Curtis names listed there. The follwoing may be helpful. Thanks again for the information you sent to me.  – Anne CurtisÂ
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Uriah Curtis was the captain of the 16th Company of 365 Saints, who crossed the Plains in 1852. In that company were members of his immediate family as well as members of his extended family. Included were Uriah’s brother, Benjamin Gardner Curtis, known as Gardner, and his family, who are listed on your site. You have listed two females named Sally Curtis. One was Gardner’s daughter, Sally (or Sarah), 12, who later married William Wimmer. The other is Sally A., 21, who was married to Gardner’s son, Eli, 24. Eli and Sally had a baby, Maria J., 7 months. Gardner also had a son, Uriah Eugene, who left two weeks earlier with the 11th company, James McGaw, Captain.
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The children of Uriah and Phoebe Curtis were all members of the 16th Company, and cousins of Sarah Curtis Wimmer — Elsa Ann Curtis Benson (husband, David, and daughter Phoebe Keziah), Erastus (wife, Mary Caroline and baby, Phoebe Maria), Eliza Jane Child (husband John Lonson Child, and children Sarah and John), Lehi (and wife, Eliza), Uriah Martin, and Mary Malinda.
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Eli Curtis traveled in the First ten with his uncle, Uriah Curtis, and his family. Gardner and the rest of his family were members of the Fourth Ten. Gardner had one wagon, 4 oxen and 3 cows. Eli had one cow.
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Resources: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Journal History, supplement following Journal History entries of 31 December 1852; LDS family group sheets.
Note: Ann Curtis is currently writing a history of Uriah Curtis