• He made his first trip to the Valley in 1847, coming east from California with a number of other Mormon Battalion veterans. At some point he returned east to collect his family. They traveled together across the plains in the 1852 Wimmer Company.

Horace M. Alexander Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 29

Robert Wimmer Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 34
• Head of Household

Sources

• "15th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• 15th Company of 50 report, 1852 June 23.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• Find a Grave
• Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 99.
• Newman Bulkley, "Fifteen Months' Experience," Juvenile Instructor, 1 November 1882, 334.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 169.
• "Obituary," Deseret Evening News, 19 September 1893, 6.
• "Obituary," Deseret Weekly, 30 September 1893, 480.
• United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923.
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.