• 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.