• As with many who were part of the sick detachments, Mecham would have traveled back to Winter Quarters and resumed his journey to the Salt Lake Valley with family that he had left behind when he joined the Mormon Battalion. The Hamblin account places his wife, Martha Mecham, in the Aaron Johnson Company of 1850. It is assumed that he and his infant child would have been traveling with her.

  In some sources hisr surname is spelled "Meacham".

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 20

Aaron Johnson Company (1850)

• Age at Departure: 23
• Head of Household

Sources

• Jacob Hamblin papers, 1850-1877, Autobiography and journal, 1850 June-1854 April, 1870 April.
• 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.