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1847–1868

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Birth Date
15 July 1819
Death Date
13 February 1892
Gender
Male
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James Pettyjohn Hirons

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  • Traveled with his wife, Mary Ann Jameson Hirons.  They were both re-baptized in the Salt Lake Valley on 8 August 1847.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 28
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Mary Ann Hirons (Age: 21)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Provo Utah Central Stake general minutes, 1849-1977, Volume 9, 1849-1858, 1866-1872 (Utah Stake City Branch record of members).
  • Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.