• William traveled to Utah as a returning Mormon Battalion veteran in the Ebenezer Brown Company in 1848.

  He returned to Iowa and then traveled back to Utah with family in the Thomas C.D. Howell Company.

Ebenezer Brown Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 22

Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 26

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
• "3rd Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 90.
• John Borrowman diaries, 1846-1860, Diary, 1848 July-1860 June.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 17.
• 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.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.