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1847–1868

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Birth Date
13 January 1827
Death Date
2 November 1904
Gender
Male
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Abner Blackburn

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  • In August 1847, after arriving to Salt Lake City with the Sick Detachment, Abner went to California with James Brown and his son, Jesse, and Lysander Woodworth. Samuel Lew later joined their group. They returned to Salt Lake City on November 16, 1847.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 20

Company Unknown (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 19

Traveled with

  • James Brown (Age: 45)
  • Lysander Catlin Woodworth (Age: 18)
  • Jesse Sowell Brown (Age: 17)
  • Samuel Lewis (Age: 17)

Sources

  • Abner Blackburn reminiscences, 12-13.  Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 244-45.
  • Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 258.