• 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: 37
• Head of Household

Sources

• "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 14 Jan. 1857, 360.
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.
• Steele, John, Journal, 24 May-30 July 1847, in John Steele, Reminiscences and journals, 1846-1898.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.