1. Pvt. John Ritter; 2. Pvt. Ralph Briggs Douglas; 3. Pvt. Edward Bunker; 4. Melissa Burton Coray Kimball; 5. Lt. Lorenzo Clark; 6. Pvt. Christopher Layton; 7. Mary McRee Black Brown; 8. Pvt. Charles Brent Hancock; 9. Pvt. Zacheus Cheney; 10. Pvt. George Washington Hancock; 11. Pvt. John McCann Bybee; 12. Pvt. John Crown Thompson; 13. Pvt. Joseph A. Taylor; 14. Pvt. Jarvis Johnson; 15. Sgt. Reddick Newton Allred; 16. Musician Willard Gilbert Smith; 17. Pvt. Jesse Sowell Brown; 18. Cpl/Sgt. William Smith Muir; 19. Pvt. James Wright Shupe; 20. Cpl. Alexander Brown; 21. Pvt. George Washington Boyd; 22. Pvt.Oliver Gaultrey Workman; 23. Pvt. Clinton Doneral Bronson; 24. Pvt. Orin Hatch.
[not pictured: Daniel Tyler of Company C, 1821-1906, Abner Blackburn of Company C, 1827-1904]
Standard-Examiner, Saturday, May 28, 1983- by Lou Gladwell. Page 6C:
All survivors shown in a photo of the 50th anniversary of the Mormon Battalion have now been identified. The battalion was organized with 503 men and 46 women and children.
The survivors were photographed in 1897 at a jubilee celebration of the arrival of Mormon pioneers in the Great Salt Lake Valley on Julu 24, 1847. George E. Anderson photographed the Veteran Pioneers of 1847 as they were assembled in front of the Assembly Hall on Temple Square. The veterans then paraded to State Street and witnessed the unveiling of the Brigham Young monument between the Temple grounds and Zions Bank.
The "grand affair eclipsed all former celebrations. At the Big Tabernacle there were Pioneer speeches, songs, music by the bands and choirs, a monster procession eight miles long." Ten thousand people attended the festivities, which lasted four days, concluding with a grand display of fireworks. Many interesting relics were shown from Nauvoo, and early pioneer days. Many old friends met and renewed their acquaintance.
William Critchlow III, past national president of the Sons of Utah Pioneers and an Ogden attorney, spent considerable time researching the battalion's history. He credits Noel Barlow of Farmington with completing the tedious task of identifying those in the photograph by contacting their many descendants.
Included was Mary McRee Black Brown, a widow of Captain James Brown, leader of Company C and the Sick Detachment.
Critchlow said the battalion was mustered by President James Polk to fight in the Mexican War in 1846-1847, plus 1848.
The battalion's famous march began at Winter Quarters (now Omaha, Nebraska). Soldiers were equiped at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and continued on to San Diego.
