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1847–1868

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Birth Date
15 May 1825
Death Date
18 February 1897
Gender
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James Phineas Pettegrew

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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 is identified as crossing the plains again in 1850 with the David Evans Company, accompanied by his wife. 

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

  • Age at Departure: 22

David Evans Company (1850)

  • Age at Departure: 25
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Solina Ann Pettegrew (Age: 21)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census.
  • Nelson W. Whipple autobiography and journal, 1859-1887, 79-92.
  • Nelson Wheeler Whipple, "Journal of a Pioneer," Instructor 82 no. 3 (March 1947): 121-124.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.