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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        20 October 1834
        Death Date
        23 November 1916
        Gender
        Male
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        Charles Edwin Colton

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        • Charles had accompanied his father, Philander Colton, on the march of the Mormon Battalion.

        Horace M. Alexander Company (1847)

        • Age at Departure: 12

        Traveled with

        • Philander Colton (Age: 35)

        Sources

        • 1850 Utah Census, Utah County.
        • 1870 California Census.
        • 1880 Utah Census.
        • California, Death Index, 1905-1939.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • Nauvoo Community Project
        • Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, [1996], 169.
        • United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923.
        • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.
        • Watt, Ron, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859.