• 1st Corporal in Mormon Battalion. Birth date is confirmed by Provo 2nd Ward records at the time of a rebaptism on 4 September 1852.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 25

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 2nd Ward, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.