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1847–1868

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Birth Date
14 September 1826
Death Date
3 June 1878
Gender
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Isaiah Huntsman

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  • 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 continued east to Winter Quarters because he seen crossing the plains again in 1851 with the Garden Grove company, accompanied by his family.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 20

Harry Walton/Garden Grove Company (1851)

  • Age at Departure: 24
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Rebecca Carter Huntsman (Age: 20)
  • Ezra Huntsman (Age: 1)

Sources

  • Crooks, George, [Diary excerpts], in Elna P. Atchison, [Genealogical information on the Crooks family, ca. 1955], 15-16.
  • "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 19 June 1878, 319.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.