• Samuel traveled to Utah as a returning Mormon Battalion veteran in the Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments in 1847. Samuel traveled between California and Utah a couple more times in the Amasa M. Lyman Company of 1850 and the Parley P. Pratt Company of 1852. The birth year listed is one he gave himself at the time of a temple ordinance.

  In 1862, he was a returning missionary from the states.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 60

Amasa M. Lyman Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 64

Parley P. Pratt Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 66

Company Unknown (1862)

• Age at Departure: 75
• Returning Missionary

Sources

• 1850 Utah Census.
• Gould, Samuel," [Biographical sketch], in Andrew Jenson, comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 3:383.
• "Journal and Diary of Albert King Thurber," in Treasures of Pioneer History, 6 vols. [1952-57], 3:283-288.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Pratt, Parley P., Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt [1888], 454-55.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.