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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        24 June 1789
        Death Date
        1 January 1872
        Gender
        Male
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        Zerah Pulsipher

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        • He was a captain of hundred. A printed version of Zerah Pulsipher's recollections mistakenly transcribed the date of his coming to Utah as 1847. The original manuscript clearly records the year of his travel as 1848, not 1847.  His birth and death dates are confirmed by his obituary and the inscription on his gravestone.

        Brigham Young Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 58

        Sources

        • A Mormon chronicle: the Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks (1955), 1:30-79.
        • Alexander Neibaur journal, 1841 February-1862 April, 26-38.
        • "Another Veteran Gone", Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1 January 1872, 2.
        • Autobiography of Levi Ward Hancock, circa 1896, Autobiography, Part Three, 1896 June 6, 98-100.
        • Daniel Wood journals, circa 1862-1900, 33-54.
        • Elizabeth T. Heward autobiography and journal, 1853-1860, 20-21.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
        • Goudy E. Hogan autobiography, undated, 5.
        • Hosea Stout reminiscences and journals, 1845-1869, Volume 3, 376-79, and, Volume 4, 1-41.
        • Job Smith autobiography, circa 1902, 15-16.
        • John Pulsipher journal and autobiography in Cache Valley historical material, circa 1955. Reel 4, Item 88, 33-46.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 2.
        • Mariah Pulsipher Burgess in Pulsipher Family History Book (1963), compiled by Terry Lund and Nora Lund, 45.
        • Mosiah L. Hancock autobiography, undated.
        • Oliver Boardman Huntington, Diary, Volume 9.
        • Pulsipher, Charles, Autobiographical sketch, in Biographical sketches 1891- , reel 62, box 65, fd. 13, item 2.
        • Pulsipher, John, "John Pulsipher’s History 1827-1891," 51-52.
        • Pulsipher, John, Autobiographical sketch, in 2nd Quorum, Biographies, 1844-1846, 1855, vol. 2, 222, in Seventies Quorum, Records, 1844-1975.
        • Pulsipher, Zerah, Record book [ca. 1858-1878], 15-16.
        • Richard Ballantyne papers, 1848-1867, 1895, Journal, 1848 May-August.
        • Thomas Bullock journals, 1843-1849, Journal, 1848 May-September.
        • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
        • Zerah Pulsipher papers, circa 1848-1878, Record book, circa 1858-1878, 24.