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1847 Mormon Battalion Sick Detachments

 

 Departure:

24 May 1847

Arrival in Salt Lake Valley:

29 July 1847

Company Information:
Three sick detachments of disabled men in the Mormon Battalion, along with some women and children, spent the winter in 1846-47 at Pueblo, Colorado. An advance party of 13 soldiers met Brigham Young's company on 4 July while trailing livestock. The remainder of the sick detachments left Pueblo on 24 May and, in company with some Saints from Mississippi, arrived in Salt Lake City five days after Brigham Young had entered the valley.

 

Individuals Known To Have Traveled In This Company

Abbott, Joshua Chandler (43)

Abbott, Ruth Markham (36)

Adams, Orson Bennett (32)

Adams, Susan Smith (28)

Allen, Franklin (29)

Allred, Eliza Bridget Manwaring (25)

Allred, Elzadie Emeline Ford (19)

Allred, James Tillman Sanford (22)

Allred, Reuben Warren (19)

Averett, Jeduthan H. (28)

Babcock, Lorenzo (23)

Badham, Samuel (31)

Beckstead, William Ezra (40)

Bevan, James (25)

Bingham, Erastus, Jr. (24)

Bingham, Thomas (22)

Bird, William (23)

Black, George David (6)

Blackburn, Abner (19)

Brazier, Richard (54)

Brimhall, John (23)

Brown, Agnes (Unknown)

Brown, Alexander (21)

Brown, Daniel (24)

Brown, Eunice Reasor (39)

Brown, Harriet St. John (17)

Brown, James (45)

Brown, James P. (44)

Brown, Jesse Sowell (18)

Brown, Mary Ann (4)

Brown, Mary McCree Black (27)

Brown, Neuman (16)

Brown, Robert H. (15)

Brown, Sarah Jane (12)

Buchanan, John (22)

Burt, William (Unknown)

Button, James H. (11)

Button, Jutson Hallibut (7)

Button, Louisa (5)

Button, Mary Bittles (31)

Button, Montgomery E. (34)

Button, Samuel (3)

Bybee, John McCann (18)

Calkins, Alva Chauncey (21)

Calkins, James Wood (19)

Calvert, John Hamaker (19)

Camp, James Green (19)

Carpenter, Isaac (19)

Carpenter, William Hiram (24)

Casto, William W. (31)

Cazier, James (29)

Cazier, John (23)

Chase, Almira Higgins (17)

Chase, John Darwin (31)

Church, Haden Wells (29)

Clark, Albert (23)

Clark, George Sheffer (30)

Clifford, Isaac Newton (22)

Clifford , John Price (24)

Compton, Allen (38)

Cummings, George Washington (35)

Curtis, Josiah (16)

Dalton, Edward (20)

Dalton, Harry (22)

Davis, James (20)

Douglas, Ralph (22)

Dunn, James (36)

Durfey, Francillo (34)

Earl, James Calvin (25)

Eastman, Marcus N. (Unknown)

Frederick, David (37)

Garner, David (29)

Garner, Phillip (39)

Gifford, William (Unknown)

Glazier, Luther William (24)

Gould, John Calvin (43)

Gould, Samuel (69)

Gribble, Sophia Hulda Smith (18)

Gribble, William (30)

Hanks, Ebenezer (31)

Hanks, Jane Wells Cooper (29)

Hendrickson, James Thomas (24)

Hess, Emeline Bigler (23)

Hess, John W. (22)

Hewitt, Eli Buckner (21)

Higgins, Alfred (15)

Higgins, Carlos Smith (5)

Higgins, Clarissa (3)

Higgins, Drusilla (13)

Higgins, Heber Kimball (7)

Higgins, Nelson (40)

Higgins, Nelson Daniel (11)

Higgins, Sarah Blackman (41)

Higgins, Wealtha Matilda (infant)

Hinckley, Arza Erastus (20)

Hirons, James Pettyjohn (28)

Hirons, Mary Ann Jameson (21)

Hoagland, Lucas (20)

Holden, Elijah Edward (21)

Hopkins, Charles (37)

Hoskins, Henry (34)

Hulett, Schuyler (20)

Hunt, Celia Mounts (40)

Hunt, Gilbert (22)

Hunt, Harriet (12)

Hunt, Hyrum (6)

Hunt, Jane (15)

Hunt, John (14)

Hunt, Joseph (10)

Hunt, Lydia Ardelicia Elinor Gibson (20)

Hunt, Mary (1)

Hunt, Matilda Jane Nease (20)

Huntington, Clark Allen (15)

Huntington, Dimick Baker (39)

Huntington, Fanny Maria Allen (36)

Huntington, Lot Elisha (13)

Huntington, Martha Zina (2)

Jackson, Charles A. (30)

Jacobs, Henry Bailey (29)

Johnson, Jarvis (17)

Johnstun, Jesse Walker (27)

Karren, Thomas (37)

Kelley, Malinda Allison (31)

Kelley, Malinda Catherine (infant)

Kelley, Nicholas (30)

Kelley, Parley (Unknown)

Kelley, Sarah (26)

Kenney, Loren Edward (31)

Lake, Barnabas (19)

Lamb, Lisbon (19)

Larson, Thurston (17)

Laughlin, David Saunders (33)

Luddington, Angeline Adeline (1)

Luddington, Elam (40)

Luddington, Lena Monger (66)

Luddington, Mary Elizabeth Clark (22)

Maxwell, Maxie (Unknown)

Mayfield, Jackson (Unknown)

Mayfield, John (Unknown)

Mayfield, Sarah (Unknown)

McClellan, William Carroll (19)

Mecham, Erastus Darwin (44)

Merrill, Phoebe Lodema (14)

Mesick, Peter I. (43)

Miller, Daniel Morgan (25)

Mowrey, Harley (21)

Nease, Ellen (11)

Nease, Peter (12)

Nowlin, Jabez Townsend (25)

Oakley, James Degroot (18)

Park, William Asberry (20)

Perkins, David Martin (23)

Pierson, Harmon Dudley (29)

Pierson, Judson A. (20)

Pugmire, Jonathan Jr. (23)

Richardson, Thomas (43)

Richmond, Benjamin Boise (21)

Roberts, Benjamin Morgan (20)

 

Rowe, Caratat Conderset (24)

Rowe, William (21)

Rust, William Walker (39)

Sanderson, Henry Weeks (18)

Sargent, Abel Morgan (68)

Sargent, Caroline (11)

Sessions, Emeline (26)

Sessions, John (25)

Sharp, Albert (Unknown)

Sharp, Martha Jane Sargent (19)

Sharp, Sarah Ellen (infant)

Shelton, Caroline (Unknown)

Shelton, Cooper (8)

Shelton, Elizabeth Spears Mayfield (41)

Shelton, Maria (2)

Shelton, Sebert Crutcher (54)

Shelton, Thomas (5)

Shipley, Joseph (33)

Shupe, Andrew Jackson (31)

Shupe, Elizabeth Margaret (infant)

Shupe, James Wright (24)

Shupe, Sarah Prunty (24)

Skeen, Joseph (30)

Smith, John Glover (38)

Smith, Richard (Unknown)

Squire, William (30)

Steele, Catherine Campbell (30)

Steele, John (26)

Steele, Mary Campbell (6)

Stevens, Lyman (35)

Stewart, Benjamin (18)

Stewart, James (20)

Stillman, Dexter (43)

Stillman, Clark (19)

Tanner, Myron (20)

Terrell, Joel Judkin (46)

Thomas, Hayward (32)

Thomas, Nathan T. (36)

Tindell, Solomon (Unknown)

Tubbs, William R. (23)

Walker, William Holmes (26)

Welch, Madison J. (19)

Whiting, Almon (25)

Whiting, Edmund (15)

Whitney, Francis Tufts (42)

Wilkin, David (27)

Wilkin, Isabella McNair (26)

Williams, Albina Marie Merrill (20)

Williams, Caroline Marie (4)

Williams, Ephraim Thomas (1)

Williams, Phoebe Isabell (infant)

Williams, Thomas Stephen (20)

Willis, William Wesley (35)

Wilson, George Deliverance (39)

Woodworth, Lysander Catlin (19)

Wright, Charles (8)

Sources

 

Allen, Franklin, Diary, 1846 Jul-1848 Oct.   

Blackburn, Abner, Reminiscences, 12-13. (Trail excerpt transcribed from "Pioneer History Collection" available at Pioneer Memorial Museum [Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum], Salt Lake City, Utah. Some restrictions apply.)   

Blackburn, Abner, [Autobiography], in Our Pioneer Heritage, 20 vols. [1958-77], 11:344-45.
   
Source Locations

Hess, David, Reminiscences, fd. 2, 20, in John Wells Hess, Autobiography and journal [ca. 1887-1895].   

Hess, John W., Journal, fd. 2, 8-9, in John Wells Hess, Autobiography and journal [ca. 1887-1895].   

Shupe, Andrew Jackson, Journal 1838-1861, 124-31.   

Skeen, Joseph, Reminiscences and diary, 1846 Jul-1847 May.
   
Source Locations

Terrell, Joel Judkins, Diary, 1846 Jul-1847 Jul.   

Walker, William Holmes, The Life Incidents and Travels of Elder William Holmes Walker and His Association with Joseph Smith, the Prophet [1943], 15-16.   


   

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