• 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: 24

David Wood Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 29
• Head of Household

Sources

• "16th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 39.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.