Your friend’s ancestors must have immigrated 1846-47. That was a hard trek. One has to give credit to their persistence in developing a city out of what was then a hostile desert. Still is, once outside the metropolitan area.
Yep. Here father was sent $10 and a ticket to come to America from England and from wherever he landed he made his way to Brigham Young and they set out across the plains until they arrived in Zion.