• Joseph was with the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachment in 1847 and traveled from San Bernardino, California to Utah in 1857.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 10

Amasa M. Lyman/Charles C. Rich Company (1857)

• Age at Departure: 19

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Book of the Pioneers, 1:15.
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Lyman, Amasa Mason, Diary, reel 1, vol. 16, 1-20, in Amasa Mason Lyman, Collection 1832-1877.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 233-34.