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1847–1868

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Birth Date
12 June 1816
Death Date
7 January 1902
Gender
Male
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Jeduthan Averett

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  • He came from Pueblo, Colorado to Salt Lake Utah.

     His birth and death dates are confirmed by his obituary and the inscription on his gravestone. 

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 30
  • Head of Household

Company Unknown (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 35
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Holly Jane Averett (Age: 34)
  • Charles Washington Averett (Age: 15)
  • Jeduthan Hardy Averett (Age: 10)
  • William Clark Averett (Age: 1)

Sources

  • 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
  • 1860 Utah Census, Utah County.
  • Book of the Pioneers, Book 1, p. 49. A Record of Those Who Arrived in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake during the Year 1847; Including the Names, Ages, Autographs and Places of Residence of All Known Survivors on July 24, 1897, "The Year of Jubilee!"
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns, and Villages; Chronology of Important Events; Records of Indian Wars; Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Ogden: W. H. Lever, 1898), 382-383.
  • Jeduthan Averett, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • "Old 'Mormon' Soldier Dead," Deseret Evening News, 11 Jan. 1902, 8.