• 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 1852 with the Bullock Company.

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

• Age at Departure: 29

Isaac Bullock Company (1852)

• Age at Departure: 33

Sources

• "17th Company," Deseret News, 18 September 1852, 2.
• 1860 Utah Census.
• "A Life's Experiences," Deseret Evening News , 7 Apr. 1890, 3.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1852, 111.
• 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.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company general files, 1850-1887.
• Pioneer Pathways 5 (2002): 321
• Presiding Bishopric. Immigrant Location Committee Minutes, (20 September - 13 October 1852).