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1847–1868

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Birth Date
22 July 1822
Death Date
8 May 1895
Gender
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William Hiram Carpenter

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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: 24

David Wood Company (1852)

  • Age at Departure: 29
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Cynthia Tryphosa Carpenter (Age: 24)
  • Joseph Wetherbee Carpenter (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • "16th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • 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.