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1847–1868

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Birth Date
19 October 1811
Death Date
15 August 1891
Gender
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Philander Colton

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  • He initially traveled to the Valley in 1847, traveling from California, after he was discharged from the Mormon Battalion. He continued back to Winter Quarters to collect his family. They crossed the plains with him two years later. He was a member of the Utah Stake City Branch in Salt Lake City at the time of his rebaptism on 26 May 1855.

Horace M. Alexander Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 35
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Charles Edwin Colton (Age: 12)

Silas Richards Company (1849)

  • Age at Departure: 37
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Polly Matilda Colton (Age: 31)
  • Harriet Emily Colton (Age: 12)
  • Eleanor Roseltha Colton (Age: 10)
  • Lamoni Andrew Colton (Age: 7)
  • Sanford Lorenzo Colton (Age: 4)
  • Byron Oliver Colton (Age: Infant)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, Supplement after 31 December 1849, 5F.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 169.
  • Ron Watt, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859.
  • Silas Richards company, 1849 September in Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849.
  • Silas Richards letter to Brigham Young, 24 August 1849.
  • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
  • Watt, Ronald G., Consecration Deeds Index, 1854-1868.