Residents of Trader’s Point Settlement, Pottawattamie County
Residents
From the Pottawattamie High Council Minutes of 1846-1853, the following residents were added to the resident list (1).
William Smith
Lucian Woodworth
Peter Harvey
William Van Ausdall
James Newberry
Luke Johnson completed the first day of the 1850 U. S. Census of Pottawattamie County enumeration with Trader’s Point on August 30, 1850. He may have needed the beginning of August 31st to finish this settlement. Following are the names listed, beginning with dwelling number #34:
#34 William Daily (age 39) (William Johnston Daley)
Mary (wife) (age 30) (Mary Ann Graham)
Matthew (age 6) (Mathew Henry Daley)
John (age 2) (John Moffat Daley)
David James Daley (born April 29, 1852)
#35 Henry Nelson (age 25)
Elizabeth (age 65) (mother) (Elizabeth Thompson)
Jane (age 25) (sister)
Ann (age 20) (wife) (Sarah Ann Richmond)
#36 Samuel Eggleston (age 45)
Lavinia (age 18) (Lurania Powers Burgess)
Reubin (age 19) (Reubin Burgess Eggleston)
Edwin (age 17)
Harvey (age 15) (Harvey Burgess Eggleston)
Orson (age 9) (Orson Hyde Eggleston)
Mary (age 1) (Mary Elizabeth Eggleston)
#37 William Benn (age 32)
Ann (wife) (age 37) (Ann Fischer)
Jane (age 7)
George (age 6)
Jonathan (age 4)
Martha (age 2)
#38 William Delong (age 37)
Sophronia (wife) (age 30) (Sophronia McCraney)
Ann (age 8)
Isam (age 7)
James (age 6)
#39 Robert McClannyhan (age 43) (Robert McClenahan)
Lucy (wife) (age 27) (Lucy Ann Richards)
Ellen (age 8) (Mary Ellen McClenahan)
Augustus (age 2) (Robert Augustus McClenahan)
Elizabeth Frances McClenahan (born October 11, 1850)
#40 William Smith (age 45) (Isaac William Smith)
Emily (wife) (age 31) (Emily Lovina Wright)
Emeline (age 11) (Emeline Merriam) (Daughter of Royal G. Meriam and Emily Lovina Wright)
Jane (age 9) (Jane “Jennie” Merriam) (Daughter of Royal G. Meriam and Emily Lovina Wright)
Francis (age 5) (Francis Marion Smith)
William (age 3) (William Henry Smith)
Elizabeth (age 2) (Ida Elizabeth Hester Smith)
Martha (age 1) (Martha Bengist Smith)
#41 George Coulsen (deceased October 8, 1851)
Nancy Coulsin (wife)(age 39) (Nancy Ann Shepherd Cossett Coulsen)
Thomas (age 13)
George (age 7)
James (age 4)
Mary Brown (age 28)
#42 William Loudon (age 45) (William Tecumseh London)
Virginia (age 10) (Virginia L. “Jennie” London)
John (age 7) (John Milton London)
Franklin (5) (Franklin S. London)
Emily (age 2)
Susan Frances London (born January 7, 1851)
Priscilla (wife) (age 35) (Priscilla Bailey)
William Dickson (age 12) (William Rufus Dickason)
#43 William Jones (age 33) (William Ellis Jones)
Louisa (wife) (age 29) (Louisa Leavitt)
Martha (age 2) (Martha Angelica Jones)
#44 Joseph Newham (age 28)
Elizabeth (wife) (29)
Henry Garfield (age 24) (Henry Hitchbourne Garfield)
Maria Cherrington (wife) (deceased December 1, 1849)
Susan (wife) (age 22) (Susannah Cherrington)
#45 Franklin Wheeling (age 36) (Franklin Jackson Wheeling)
Martha (wife) (age 18) (Martha Ann Short)
Francis (age 3) (Francis Marion Wheeling)
John (age 1) (John Berton Wheeling)
Mary Elizabeth Wheeling (born June 26, 1851)
S. L. Lord (age 27)
Martha (age 18)
G. Boem (age 32)
Luman (age 40)
C. Pearce (age 22)
Latitia McKee (age 22) (Lettie McKee)
Laurena Crosby (age 20)
#46 James Rowland (age 41)
Rhoda (wife) (age 39) (Rhoda Hickman)
William (age 18)
Willis (age 16)
James (age 14)
Benjamin (age 11) (Benjamin Franklin Rowland)
Mary (age 6) (Mary Elizabeth Rowland)
Zachary (age 5) (Zachary Taylor Rowland)
Martha (age 4)
Janette (age 3)
Cynthia Mann (age 18) (Cynthia Elizabeth Mann)
#47 Joseph Pendleton (age 40) (Joseph Thomas Pendleton)
Mary (wife) (age 34) (Mary Emeline Wright)
Moselice (age 14) (Marcellus Avender Pendleton)
Orrilla (age 9) (Aurelia Celestine Pendleton)
Permelia Marciana Pendelton) (died August 11, 1847)
Joseph (age 1) (Joseph Thomas Pendleton)
Mary Emaline Pendleton (born March 11, 1851)
Rosella Felicia Pendleton (born September 16, 1852)
#48 John O’Connor (age 41)
Patsey (wife) (age 40)
Alexander (age 8)
George Dosson (age 21)
William Frost (age 13)
#49 John Baily (age 50) (John Bailey)
#50 John Stoker (age 48) (John William Stoker)
Sarah (wife) (age 44) (Sarah Jane McDaniel)
Zibah (age 20) (Zibiah Meriba Stoker)
Catharine (age 17) (Catherine Martha Stoker)
Elizabeth (age 15) (Elizabeth Jane Stoker)
Parley (age 12) (Parley Pratt Stoker)
William (age 10) (William Eller Stoker)
Sophronia (age 7) (Olive Sophronia Stoker)
Rebecca (age 2)
#51 Jesse Lambson, Jr. (died November 28, 1848)
Ruth Sampson (wife) (age 56) (Ruth Newell Lambson)
Nelson (age 16) (Narcisse Nelson Arave) (foster son)
Charles Chauncey Robbins (died September 24, 1847)
Mary (wife) (age 29) (Mary Jane Lambson)
Mary (age 14) (Mary Jane Lambson)
Martin (age 6) (Martin Heber Robbins)
Ann (age 4) (Ann Robbins)
Sarah (age 2) (Sarah Lytle) (daughter of John Lytle)
#52 Jonathan Shinn (age 39)
Zelinda (wife) (age 28) (Zelinda Oakes Healy Shinn)
Edwin (age 1)
William West (age 33)
James (age 23)
#53 Nancy Coon (age 48)
Wily Walker (age 20)
Eliza (age 18)
Josephine (age 13)
James Wily (age 30)
Isabella (age 19)
William (age 5)
#55 Jessee Allen (age 30)
Mary (wife) (age 21)
Angeline (age 5)
William (age 2)
#56 Archy Morgan (age 46) (Archibald A. Morgan)
Fanny (wife) (age 35) (Frances)
Martha (age 16)
William (age 13)
Matilda (age 11)
Malinda (age 7)
Nancy (age 5)
Francis (age 4)
John (age 1)
#57 Francis Beckstead (deceased in 1848, drowned in Missouri River)
Mary Beckstia (wife) (age 40) (Maria Beckstead Beckstead)
Sidney (age 19) (Sidney Marcus Beckstead)
Ann (age 22) (Sarah Ann M Beckstead) (age 14)
Eaton (age 10) (Elton Efron Beckstead)
William (age 7) (William L. Beckstead)
Lillian Beckstead (probably deceased before 1850)
Alma (age 2) (Alma Albert Beckstead)
#58 John Miles (age 25) (John Maile)
Lucy (wife) (age 29) (Lucy Perline Ford)
Lorenzo (age 5) (Lorenzo Dow) (son of Eli Lorenzo Dow and Lucy Perline Ford)
Elzada (age 2) (Elzada Emeline Maile)
#59 William Martin Ford (deceased March 24, 1850)
Hannah Ford (wife) (age 55) (Hannah Lucile Mayo)
Assenith (age 31) (Aseneth Pamelia Ford) (married Reuben Martin Merritt)
Emma (age 25)
Martin (age 18)
Eliza Ann (granddaughter) (age 6) (Anna Louisa Merritt)
Martin (grandson) (age 2) (Martin Merritt)
#60 Francis Gettarr (age 41) (Francis Guittar)
Mary Morgan (wife) (age 19) (Mary Ann Morgan
#61 A. R. Starmoth (age 29) (Adolph M. Starmont)
Mary (wife) (age 24)
#62 Michael Stoker (age 41)
Martha (wife) (age 39) (Martha McDaniel)
Gabriel (age 21) (Gabriel McNeil Stoker)
David (age 18) (David Newbury Stoker)
Maroni (age 14) (William Moroni Stoker)
Alexander (age 13) (John Alexander Stoker)
Michael (age 10) (Michael James Stoker)
Jared (age 6) (Jared Samuel Stoker)
Joseph (age 4) (Joseph Jehiel Stoker)
Rebecca (age 2) (Martha Rebecca Stoker)
#63 O. N. Tyson (age 51) (Oliver Norris Tyson)
Catherine (wife) (age 40) (Catherine Radcliffe)
Ruth (age 19)
Sarah (age 18)
Jonathan (age 17)
Isaac (age 15)
Stephen (age 11)
Tacy Ann (age 9)
Phelix (age 7) (Felix Ellis Tyson)
Thornton (age 5) (Thornton Kelly Tyson)
Oliver (age 3) (Oliver Norris Tyson)
Mary Ellen (age 1)
Other Residents
Many of the merchants at Trader’s Point were not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They may have also had their homes in other settlements and were not enumerated in the 1850 U. S. Census in Trader’s Point.
Peter Sarpy
Pierre LeClerc
Joseph LaFramboise
Richard Elliott
Jesse Alcorn
J. Obonor
A. Sarpy
Daniel Norten
P. Hans
William Reeves
John Heywood
J.A. Sylvester
Henry Delong
Samuel Barstow
John Plumber
John Hardin
Charles Jameson
Clement Lambert
William Patterson McIntire
Possible Births
| Name | Father | Mother | Date |
| Ann Robbins | Charles Chauncey Robbins | Mary Jane Lambson | 1846 |
| Martha Rowland | James Rowland | Rhoda Hickman | 1846 |
| Janette Rowland | James Rowland | Rhoda Hickman | 1847 |
| Oliver Norris Tyson, Jr. | Oliver Norris Tyson | Catherine Radcliffe | 25 Nov 1847 |
| Francis Marion Wheeling | Franklin Jackson Wheeling | Mary Ann Short | 27 Nov 1847 |
| John Berton Wheeling | Franklin Jackson Wheeling | Mary Ann Short | 1848 |
| William Allen | Jesse Allen | Mary | 1848 |
| Sarah Lytle | John Lytle | Mary Jane Lambson | 1848 |
| Emily London | WilliamTecumseh London | Priscilla Bailey | 1848 |
| John Moffat Daley | William Johnston Daley | Mary Ann Graham | 3 May 1848 |
| Robert Augustus McClenahan | Robert McClenahan | Lucy Ann Richards | 18 Aug 1848 |
| Elzada Emeline Maile | John Maile | Lucy Perline Ford | 6 Sep 1848 |
| Ida Elizabeth Hester Smith | Isaac William Smith | Emily Lovina Wright | 7 Oct 1848 |
| Rebecca Stoker | John William Stoker | Sarah Jane McDaniel | 30 Oct 1848 |
| Martha Benn | William Benn | Ann Fischer | Dec 1848 |
| Phebe Jane Cummings | George Cummings | Phebe “Jane” Ferguson | 15 Dec 1848 |
| John Morgan | Archibald A. Morgan | Frances | 1849 |
| Mary Ellen Tyson | Oliver Norris Tyson | Catherine Radcliffe | 1849 |
| Martha Rebecca Stoker | Michael S. Stoker, Jr. | Martha Carr McDaniel | 1 Jan 1849 |
| Joseph Thomas Pendleton, Jr. | Joseph Thomas Pendleton | Mary Emeline Wright | 8 Feb 1849 |
| Mary Elizabeth Eggleston | Samuel Eggleston | Lurania Powers Burgess | 22 Sep 1849 |
| Martha Bengist Smith | Isaac William Smith | Emily Lovina Wright | 14 Apr 1850 |
| Elizabeth Frances McClenahan | Robert McClenahan | Lucy Ann Richards | 11 Oct 1850 |
| Susan Frances | WilliamTecumseh London | Priscilla Bailey | 7 Jan 1851 |
| Mary Emeline Pendleton | Joseph Thomas Pendleton | Mary Emeline Wright | 11 Mar 1851 |
| Mary Elizabeth Wheeling | Franklin Jackson Wheeling | Mary Ann Short | 26 Jun 1851 |
| Hannah Elizabeth Maile | John Maile | Lucy Perline Ford | 22 Sep 1851 |
| David James Daley | William Johnston Daley | Mary Ann Graham | 29 Apr 1852 |
| Roseline Felicia Pendleton | Joseph Thomas Pendleton | Mary Emeline Wright | 26 Sep 1852 |
| William Nelson Martin | Moses Martin | Cynthia Elizabeth Mann | 16 May 1853 |
Possible Marriages
William Dalley III and Mandana Hillman were married September 4, 1846
Moses Martin (from Council Bluffs and Cynthia Elizabeth Mann (Cynthia A. Manning from Council Point) were married January 4, 1851 (2)
Travel West
Many of the residents of Trader’s Point did not make the trek west. About nine families have been documented in making the journey. They all departed after 1851.
Bibliography
1. Pottawattamie High Council minutes, 1846-1852; 1850 December-1851 March; Church History Library, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/dff41a9e-b768-40b7-bde1-98b2c19f8c90/0/0 (accessed: December 14, 2021)
2. “Pottawattamie County Marriage Records,” Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society, 2000.