• John arrived in the Valley first in 1848, traveling eastward from California with a group of former Battallion members. At some point, he went back to California, because he is again seen on the eastward trail heading for the Valley, with his family in 1857.

Ebenezer Brown Company (1848)

• Age at Departure: 37

Company Unknown (1857)

• Age at Departure: 45
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1860 Utah Census, Beaver County.
• "Deaths," Deseret News, 22 October 1884, 640.
• Find a Grave
• Lee, Ann Gordge, Autobiography, ca. 1900, 2.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 223-25.