Appendix B, After Hole in the Rock: What Happened to the Members of the Expedition
* = returned to live in Bluff later
1. Those who never intended to settle in the San Juan Mission (and where they went):
Milton and Wilson Dailey and their families (Colorado)
Thomas Box (Colorado)
Mons Larson and his family (Snowflake, Arizona)
probably David Alma Stevens, James Edwards Stevens, as well as Walter Joshua and Elizabeth Kenney Stevens (Snowflake, Arizona, Holden, Colorado, or New Mexico)
2. Those who assisted family members on the trek then returned to their homes soon after (relation in parentheses):
Amasa Miles Barton* (brother of Joseph F. Barton)
George William Decker (son of Zachariah Decker Sr., brother of Zachariah Decker Jr., James Bean Decker, and Nathaniel Alvin Decker)
Amasa Lyman (half brother of Platte Lyman and Joseph Lyman)
Edward Lyman (brother of Platte Lyman and Joseph Lyman)
Rasmus Mickelsen (father of Peter Mickelsen and Anna Mickelsen Decker)
Peter Nelson (brother-in-law of George Urie)
James Monroe Redd* (brother of Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr.)
Lemuel Hardison Redd, Sr.* (father of Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr.)
Reuben Sevy (son of George Sevy from his first marriage)
George Henry Westover (brother of Eliza Ann Westover Redd)
Thomas Williams (brother of Mary Ann Williams Perkins and Sarah Williams)
3. Those who left before June 1880 (or who were not there for the census and did not return for long afterward) for unknown reasons (and where they went):
Noah Barnes (unknown)
Danielson Buren Barney and family* (unknown, possibly Arizona)
Samuel Bryson (unknown)
Marius Ensign Dunton and family (unknown)
William Eyre (returned to Parowan)
Isaac Haight and Caleb Haight (Cedar City)
David and Sarah Jane Hunter* (returned to Cedar City)
James Lewis (Taylor, Arizona)
George Morrell (unknown)
Peter and Hannah Mariah Mortensen (possibly Colorado)
Adam Franklin Robb and family (Animas, Colorado)
George Drummond Robb and family (returned to Paragonah, Utah)
John Robb and family (Mancos, Colorado)
William Robb and family* (returned to Paragonah)
George Sevy and family (returned to Panguitch)
Samuel Smith (unknown)
Edward Taylor and Warren Taylor (unknown)
George and Alice Jane Urie (returned to Cedar City)
Joseph Walker (unknown)
Francis Webster (probably returned to Cedar City)
Joseph Smith Woolsey* (returned to Panguitch)
Henry Wilson (unknown)
4. Those who left by the end of 1881 (and where they went):
Zachariah B. Decker, Sr. (possibly Parowan)
Zachariah B. Decker, Jr. and family (Snowflake, Arizona)
William Hutchings and family (returned to Beaver)
John Peter Jensen and family (Taylor, Arizona)
William Goddard and family (Colorado)
Sidney Goddard (unknown)
William Heber Gurr and family (Parowan)
James Wilkerson Pace and family (returned to Panguitch)
John Robinson (returned to Paragonah)
Silas S. Smith, Sr. and family (Manassa, Colorado)
Silas S. Smith, Jr. and family (Manassa, Colorado)
John Aikens Smith and family (Manassa, Colorado)
William Warren Taylor, Jr. (unknown)
5. Those who may have left by the end of 1881 and were definitely gone by the end of 1883 (and where they went):
James Harvey Dunton and families (Mancos, Colorado)
Hyrum Fielding and family (Mancos, Colorado)
John and Harriet Gower (Cedar City)
George Hobbs (eventually Nephi)
Henry Holyoak and family (returned to Paragonah, then Moab)
George Lewis (unknown)
Joseph W. Lillywhite and family (Woodruff, Arizona)
Wilford Woodruff Pace (unknown)
James Riley and family (returned to Beaver)
Jacob Roner (Bryner? Roper?) (unknown)
Joseph Stanford Smith and family (Mancos, Colorado)
George Henry Westover (possibly returned to New Harmony)
George Westwood (probably returned to Beaver)
6. These are the families that left sometime in 1884 for at least a year (with the total number in their family and their destination):
Danielson and Laura Barney (10, Thatcher, Arizona)
Hanson and Mary Ann Bayles* (4, probably Cedar City or Parowan)
Samuel and Sarah Cox (3, Emery County, Utah)
James and Elisabeth Davis (came with 1879 expedition, 9, Bear Lake, Utah)
Cornelius and Elizabeth Decker (6, Snowflake, Arizona)
James Cyrus and Eliza Dunton (4, possibly Paragonah, Utah)
Henry and Elizabeth Harriman (came with 1879 expedition, 5, Huntington, Utah)
David and Sarah Jane Hunter* (returned to Cedar City)
Joseph and Nellie Lyman* (3, Oak City, Utah)
Platte and Adelia Lyman* (6, Oak City then Scipio, Utah)
Samuel and Adelia Mackelprang (10, Huntington, Utah)
John and Paulina Pace (6, Huntington, Utah)
Benjamin and Mary Ann and Sarah Perkins* (11, Cedar City, later to Monticello)
William and Ellen Robb (3, maybe Paragonah)
Samuel and Ann Rowley (9, Huntington, Utah)
Joseph and Mary Woolsey (8, Arizona).
Others who left in 1884 for at least a year who were not members of the Hole-in-the-Rock expedition:
John, Jr. and Jennie Allan* (6, Burnham, New Mexico)
Nephi and Annie Bailey* (6, probably returned to Cedar City, Utah)
Lars and Anna Christensen (7, returned to Richfield, Utah)
David and Eliza Edwards (3, returned to Paragonah)
Brigham and Johanna Harrison (3, Manassa, Colorado)
William and Mary Ann Hyde (3, Riverview, Utah or Colorado)
Frederic and Mary Jones* (5, probably Cedar City, Utah)
George Ipson (1, possibly Emery County, Utah)
Lars and Mattie Jensen (9, Richfield, Utah)
Orren and Emeretta Kelsey (9, New Harmony, Utah)
Peter and Harriet and Ida Mickelsen (8, possibly Manassa, Colorado)
Elsie and Julia Nielson* (2, Cedar City, Utah)
Job and Martha Jane Openshaw (4, Moab)
Thomas and Margaret Rowley (4, Huntington, Utah)
Samuel and Josephine Wood* (6, probably Cedar City)
One of the reasons so many of the families that left in 1884 went to Huntington was that the Denver & Rio Grande ran through there starting in 1883, making it one of the more accessible new communities by way of Durango.
7. Those who left by 1900 (and where they went):
Parley Rogerson Butt (about 1888, Verdure)
Nathaniel Alvin Decker and family (about 1889, Mancos, Colorado)
Lemuel Hardison Redd, Sr. (about 1890, Colonia Juarez, Mexico)
Charles E. Walton and family (1888, Monticello)
8. Those who left later than 1900 (married name, when and where they went)
Joseph Franklin Barton (1908, Monticello)
Harriett Eliza Barton (1905, Moab)
Mary Viola Barton (1906, Moab)
Ole Hanson Bayles (1908, Blanding)
Anna Lillian Decker (Wood, 1904, Monticello)
Anna Marie Mickelsen Decker (after 1910, Monticello)
Lena Deseret Decker (Hammond, 1901, probably Moab)
Nancy Genevieve Decker (Wood, 1905, Monticello)
Kumen and Mary Nielson Jones (after 1920, Blanding)
Ida Evalyn Lyman (Nielson, 1913, Blanding)
Caroline Nielson (Redd, 1909, Blanding)
Francis Nielson (c. 1915, Blanding)
Jens Peter Nielson (1908, Blanding)
Julia Nielson (Butt, after 1920, possibly Blanding)
Lucinda Nielson (Hyde, after 1917, Salt Lake City)
Margaret Nielson (Adams, between 1910 and 1920, Blanding)
George William Perkins (about 1912, Blanding)
Rachel Corry Perkins (after 1920, probably Blanding)
James Monroe Redd and family (1905, Monticello)
Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. and family (1914, Blanding)
Sarah Williams (Perkins, 1907, Monticello)
9. Those who died in Bluff (and year of death):
Amasa Miles Barton (1887)
Harriett A. Richards Barton (1896)
Willard George Butt (1919)
James Bean Decker (1901)
Lydia May Lyman (1906)
Jens Nielson (1906)
Joe Nielson (1903)
Kirsten Nielson (1908)
Hyrum Perkins (1917)
Roswell Stevens (1880)
My estimates of who went where come from the lists of Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers from Miller, Hole in the Rock, 142–147; Perkins, Nielson, and Jones, Saga of San Juan, 346–347; and Crabtree, Incredible Mission, 146–154; also the 1880 Manuscript Census for San Juan County, Bluff Ward records, Personal Ancestral Files on FamilySearch.org, and mentions of these people in the documentary sources.
