NATHANIEL EAMES. ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER EN ROUTE TO UTAH.

Nathaniel Eames, Ffestiniog, was traveling with his second wife, Sarah, and their two children. Also with them was Nathaniel, Eames’s thirteen-year-old son by his first wife. Other children were left behind in Wales to rejoin them later in Utah. A baby, Jane Hartley Eames, was born to Nathaniel and Sarah while on board the Hartley.

This entire family, except for Nathaniel Jr., died within a week of each other before reaching Council Bluffs. Young Nathaniel crossed the plains in 1849 with the David Peters family and appears in the 1850 census with his older brother David, who by that time had also reached the Valley.

The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration.