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