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1847–1868

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Birth Date
30 March 1813
Death Date
22 April 1892
Gender
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Samuel Thompson

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  • Captain of Fifty; 2nd Lieutenant

Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 35
  • Company Captain

Sources

  • "Death of Samuel Thompson," Deseret Evening News , 4 May 1892, 8.
  • Elijah Elmer diary in "To the Tops of the California Mountains: The 1848 Carson Pass Diary of Elijah Elmer," edited by Will Bagley, Crossroads Newsletter 4, no. 3 (summer 1993): 5-7.
  • Ephraim Green journal, 1848 June-September and 1849 December.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Henele Pikale (Henry W. Bigler), "Recollections of the Past," Juvenile Instructor, 1 December 1886, 365-66.
  • Henry W. Bigler reminiscences and diaries, 1846-1850, Volume contents: (1) February 1846-November 1850, 91-106.
  • Henry W. Bigler reminiscences and diaries, 1846-1850, Volume contents: (2) July-September 1848, 1-13.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 222-23.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Samuel H. Rogers reminiscences and diary, 1841-1886, Folder contents: (1) Reminiscences and journal, 1841 June-1855 July, 158-66.
  • Zadoc K. Judd autobiography, 1903-1907, 33-36.