Robert: I owe you an apology. Hannah Speakman and Paul Gourley are on the roster for the Martin (5th) HC company, not the Evans (6th) as I wrote you yesterday. I had searched on the ancestry.com web site. Unfortunately, the page/title headings didn't line up, and the list I looked at was actually the 5th, not the 6th. The definite HC company lists are in "Handcarts to Zion" by Leroy & Ann Hafen (1960; Bison Books paperback, 1992; this book is sold at the Museum of Art & Church History in SLC). Their lists are from the Journal History, which were taken from Deseret News articles and other reputable sources. These lists should be considered a starting point (i.e., everyone on list is valid, but some may be missing). The lists on the ancestry.com web site are from one of Kate Carter's books in the Daughters of the Pioneers series. Many of the people on this list, but not on the Hafen's, are valid HC pioneers, but many are not. My gggrandparents, Isaac C. Morris and Sarah E. Henderson are listed with the 9th HC in the DUP list, but actually crossed the plains in 1853 and 1852, respectively. Their son, Conway Morris, married Margaret Robison, daughter of 9th HC captain, Daniel Robison. I have found many other errors in the DUP list for the 9th co. Lyndia Carter (Mrs. Robert) of Springville, Utah has been researching the Willie and Martin handcart companies for several years, and is writing a book. I've had several discussions with her over resources, and we shared the podium at a symposium on the pioneers at BYU last September. She has done extensive research on the people in these two companies, including what happened to them after they finally arrived in the valley. I hesitate to put her address or phone no. here out of respect for her privacy. If anyone wants information on the Willie & Martin companies, I suggest they send her a letter c/o Melvin Bashore at the Historical Dept., The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 East North Temple St., Salt Lake City UT 84150. Mrs. Carter comes into the archives/library several times a month, and I'm sure Mr. Bashore will get letters to her, as he passed on my name to her several years ago when I was just starting my research on the 9th HC company. There is also a small book in print called on the rescue of the Willie & Martin HC companies by Rebecca Bartholomew, Leonard Arrington, and R. Cornwall (The Rescue of the 1856 Hancart Companies, reprinted 1993). This is available from amazon.com for $5.56. Deseretbook.com also has one book on the 1856 rescue and another on the "second rescue"--the efforts by Riverton WY LDS members to identify and complete the temple work for the members of these companies. There may be more information about Hannah Speakman in the book on the second rescue.