• Joel was a member of the Mormon Battalion Sick detachment. He was a 3rd Sergeant and was re-baptized in the Salt Lake Valley on 8 August 1847.  By 16 April 1854 he was at Mound Fort (Ogden,) Utah.  He was a member of the 23rd Quorum of Seventy.  His birth and death dates are confirmed by his gravestone.

  Captain of Fifty in the 1850 Warren Foote Company.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 46

Warren Foote Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 49

Orson Spencer/ Joel J. Terrell Company (1853)

• Age at Departure: 52
• Company Captain

Sources

• Find a Grave
• Gilbert Belnap autobiography, 1856.
• Hill, William John, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 32:82-83.
• "Joel J. Terrell," Ogden Daily Herald, 26 February 1883, [3].
• Joel J. Terrell diary, 1846 July-1847 July.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1850, 15.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
• Watt, Ronald G., Consecration Deeds Index, 1854-1868.