• Church ordinance records prove that John was in Salt Lake City before November 1853.  His middle name is found in the Salt Lake Cemetery records.

Moses Clawson Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 57

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census.
• "Died," Deseret News, 15 May 1878, 15.
• Fifteenth Ward, Record of Members.
• "St. Louis Company report, 1853 June 30." In Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports 1850-1862, Reports 1853-1855. (CR 1234 5, Box 1, Folder 25)
• Utah, Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946.
• Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.