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1847–1868

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7 December 1823
Death Date
18 September 1880
Gender
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Jonathan Pugmire Jr.

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  • Jonathan 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 1848 with his family.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 23

Heber C. Kimball Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 24
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Elizabeth Pugmire (Age: 26)
  • George McKay Pugmire (Age: 2)
  • Jonathan McKay Pugmire (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • Jonathan Pugmire autobiographical sketch, circa 1878, 2.
  • Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 15.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Norton Jacob reminiscence and journal, 1844 May-1852 January, 110-115.
  • "Obituary," Deseret News [Weekly] , 29 Sep. 1880, 560.