• He was part of one of the Mormon Battalion sick detachments before he returned eastward. He crossed the plains again with the Rhoades company in 1849.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 39

Thomas Rhoades Company (1849)

• Age at Departure: 41

Sources

• "Another Gone," Deseret Evening News , 12 Dec. 1879, [3].
• Record of Deaths in Salt Lake City, 1848-1890
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
• Thomas Rhoades company roster 1849 July 14. (MS 15995)