• David first arrived in the Valley with the sick detachments of the Mormon Battalion. Shortly after arriving, he returned to Winter Quarters. He crossed the plains again in 1852 with his family.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 33

Company Unknown (1852)

• Age at Departure: 35
• Head of Household

Sources

• "Died," Deseret News, 14 January 1857, 360.
• John Steele, Journal, 24 May-30 July 1847.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.