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1847–1868

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Birth Date
30 May 1826
Death Date
6 February 1858
Gender
Male
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Thorit Peck

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  • Member of the Mormon Battalion returning from California.  He was in Utah by 1848 when he filed for a lot in Salt Lake City.  Additional research is needed to identify the group of men with which he traveled to Utah.

Company Unknown (1848)

  • Age at Departure: 22

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory.
  • "Died," Deseret News [Weekly], 10 Mar. 1858, 8.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Larson, Carl V. comp. A Database of the Mormon Battalion: An Identification of the Original Members of the Mormon Battalion (Salt Lake City: U.S. Mormon Battalion, 1997), 186.
  • [List of those filing for lots, 1848], in Salt Lake County Recorder's Office, Land records [ca. 1847-1860].
  • Peck, Thorit, [Autobiographical sketch], in Andrew Jenson, comp., Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia [1971], 4:760.
  • Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
  • Utah Cemetery Inventory
  • Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index.