Date Unknown
- Birth Date
- 28 December 1824
- Death Date
- 3 May 1900
- Gender
- Male
Ralph Briggs Douglass
Surname from a form in Book of the Pioneers that was filled out by the pioneer in 1897.
Returned to Winter Quarters after reaching the Salt Lake Valley with the Battalion. Likely returned to Utah in 1850 with his wife. Appears on the 1850 census with his wife and Joseph Stone (listed as Joseph Douglass).
Ralph's autobiographical sketch indicates that he crossed again in 1862 from Omaha (Florence), Nebraska with Thomas Ricks. However, Thomas Ricks there is known documentation to support that Thomas Ricks crossed in 1862. He did cross in 1863. It was more likely that Ralph accompanied Thomas in 1863.
Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)
- Age at Departure: 22
Company Unknown (1850)
- Age at Departure: 25
- Head of Household
Traveled with
Thomas E. Ricks Company (1863)
- Age at Departure: 38
- Out-and-Back Teamster