• 3rd Corporal in the the Mormon Battalion; in 1864 John led an independent mule train company.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 31

John D. Chase Company (1864)

• Age at Departure: 48
• Company Captain

Sources

• “Captain John D. Chase Company (independent), passenger list, 1864.” Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company church trains accounts 1861-1868, Captains’ accounts, 1862-1868. (CR 376 8, Box 1, Folder 9)
• "Death of a Pioneer," Salt Lake Herald, 28 July 1902, 5.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• "List of Passengers," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 August 1864, 361.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger A, p. 220.
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.