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1847–1868

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Birth Date
8 October 1811
Death Date
12 July 1887
Gender
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George Washington Cummings

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  • He was part of one of the Mormon Battalion sick detachments before he returned eastward. He crossed the plains again with his family in 1852.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 35

Isaac Bullock Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 40
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Phebe Jane Cummings (Age: 36)
  • Charles Cummings (Age: 16)
  • Cornelius Cummings (Age: 12)
  • Phebe Jane Cummings (Age: 3)
  • Reuben Cummings (Age: 1)

Sources

  • "17th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 108.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.