Bickmore - Kidd Family

Alexander Kidd and his wife Phidelia/Fidelia Bickmore and her parents William M. Bickmore and Christena Bagley came across the plains in 1852 with the Joseph Outhouse Company. Alexander is listed as the captain of the third ten and family. The Bickmore family had quite an entourage of relatives numbering around two dozen relatives as far I as can tell from the list of travelers in this company thus making up about half of the company.

Alexander & Fidelia's family is recognized as being among the earliest settlers of Herriman, Utah and their graves are found at the reconstructed Fort Herriman cemetery.

William Barton's account of John Outhouse indicates that there was a lot of contention in this company with Captain Outhouse threatening to resign regularly as things weren't going well. Thomas Day called him a "genuine crank" and confirms that many of the families in the company split off of the main company during the journey. It is reported that Outhouse left the church and took his family to California upon arrival in the Salt Lake Valley.

More fellow company reminiscences...
Thomas Day
Ann Rogers Snow
William Lang
Mary Jane Bethers York
Jonathan Socwell Page
John Spiers
Lyman Stephen Wood