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1847–1868

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Birth Date
18 October 1825
Death Date
6 July 1852
Gender
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Isaac Newton Wriston


Alternate Names

    Isaac Newton Clifford

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  • Isaac's grandfather, Elias Clifford, was raised by a stepfather named "Wriston" and as a result Elias adopted this surname.  Isaac, a grandson of Elias, enlisted in the Mormon Battalion under the name Wriston and came to Utah as a member of a Mormon Battalion sick detachment.  In 1847 he traveled east with the company of returning pioneers.  By the time of the 1850 federal census he was again in Utah, in Davis County.  He died at Brigham City, Box Elder County but is buried at Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments (1847)

  • Age at Departure: 21

Traveled with

  • John Price Wriston (Age: 24)

Sources

  • 1850 Utah Census, Davis County.
  • Journal History, 10 November 1846, p. 4.
  • Journal History, 4 October 1847, p. 1.
  • 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), 66-67.