• Levi was a member of the Mormon Battalion that traveled to California. In 1847, he returned from California. At some point he returned to the East to collect some of his family. Together, they returned to Utah in 1852. In this company, he served as captain of the 4th ten.

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

• Age at Departure: 37

Thomas C.D. Howell Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 42
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1850 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie County.
• "3rd Company," Deseret News [Weekly], 18 September 1852, 2.
• 3rd Company of 50 report, 1852 August 4, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
• Condie, Gibson, Reminiscences and diary, 1865-1910, 33-35.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 16.
• Levi H. McCullough, Biographical sketches, 1891-2013.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 180.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.