• The inscription on his gravestone in Minnesota confirms his birth and death dates.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

• Age at Departure: 23

Sources

• Find a Grave (Website)
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 , [1996], 244-45.
• Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996, 23.