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1847–1868

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Birth Date
26 January 1830
Death Date
28 May 1849
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Leonard Morris Scott


Alternate Names

    Leonard Morice Scott

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  • Leonard was a member of the Mormon Battalion.  According to the Journal History, 18 August 1846, 5, he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the way to California, about four miles west of the Kaw River, by Levi M. Hancock.

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

  • Age at Departure: 17

Sources

  • Eleventh Quorum of Seventies, Minutes, May 19, 1852, vol. 1, in Seventies Quorum, Records, CR 499, reel 34.
  • Journal History, 18 August 1846, 5.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.