The first division of the Mormon Battalion approached Santa Fe on 9 October 1846. Their approach was heralded by Col. Alexander Doniphan, who ordered a one-hundred-gun salute in their honor. At Santa Fe, Col. Andrew Jackson Smith was relieved of his command by Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke. Cooke, aware of the rugged trail between Santa Fe and California and also aware that one sick detachment had already been sent from the Arkansas River to Fort Pueblo in Colorado, ordered the remaining women and children to accompany the sick of the battalion to Pueblo for the winter. Three detachments consisting of 273 people eventually were sent to Pueblo for the winter of 1846-47. Groups of the Sick Detachment travelers entered the SL Valley beginning on July 24, 1847 and for several days afterwards.

"Mormon Battalion (Sick Detachment) and Balance of Mississippi Saints--
On July 29, 1847, five days after President Brigham Young, Captain James Brown with Captains Nelson Higgins and Wm. W. Willis and 140 of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion arrived at the pioneer camp in Great Salt Lake Valley. President Bright Young and a number of the brethren went to meet them. There were 140 of the Mormon Battalion and forty of the Mississippi Saints with them. They had 29 wagons, one carriage, 100 horses and mules and 300 head of cattle, which greatly added to the strength of the pioneer camp. The names of most of these are to be found in Journal History, July 29, 1847, pages 1-9. These should be designated as Pioneer companies of 1847, but not as part of the Original Pioneer company, which consisted only of the 143 men, three women and two children, known as the "Original Pioneers." --Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 4, page 343.

Eugene E. Campbell in Establishing Zion Chapter 1, Page 13 : ...152 Mormon Battalion men in the sick detachments had wintered in Colorado. They were accompanied by approximately thirty wives and fifty children, and by forty-seven Mississippi Saints who had wintered with the battalion families.

Some confusion exists about the total number entering the valley in 1847. Church historian B.H. Roberts, basing his calculations on Thomas Bullock's reports, asserted a total of 2,095, but he did not take into account the battalion members from California. Leonard J. Arrington estimated that 1,681 pioneers spent the first winter in the valley, and a church letter of 6 March 1848 reported that the total population stood at "1,671 persons living in 423 houses." There were also some births and deaths, and a few battalion men decided to go back east to their families. In addition, some 250 people who came into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 returned soon afterwards to Winter Quarters or to California. Thus about 1,930 people could claim the title "Pioneers of '47."

From Diary of Albina Merrell Williams: "Spring came at last and then the word was conveyed to the isolated little colony that a start had been made by the pioneers at Council Bluffs to find a new home in the far west. No time was lost in bidding farewell to the old fort on the Arkansas. Captain Brown's Company fell in the wake of the pioneers and all but overtook them before the Valley of the Great Salt Lake was reached.  As a matter of fact, some of the Battalion people came in with the pioneers, but the wagon containing Mrs. Williams and her sister did not arrive on the banks of City Creek until five days after President Young had pitched a tent there." --Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 2, 1940, page 72.

The remaining Mormon Battalion soldiers, with four or five wives of officers [and Nancy Brown Davis, wife of Private Eleazer Davis. Nancy gave birth to a daughter in 1848 while in California.] left Santa Fe for California on 19 October 1846. They journeyed down the Rio Grande del Norte and eventually crossed the Continental Divide on 28 November 1846.

CAPTAIN JAMES BROWN'S SANTA FE SICK DETACHMENT

When Philip St. George Cooke assumed command of the battalion in Santa Fe, he thought there were too many women, children, and sick soldiers and decided to send a second detachment to Pueblo. This group left Santa Fe October 18, 1846 under Captain James Brown. They arrived in Pueblo November 17, 1846, with 92 men, 19 women and 10 children. This was the Brown Sick Detachment (Santa Fe Detachment).

Joshua Chandler Abbott, from Company D, along with his wife Ruth Markham Abbott

Orson Bennett Adams 1815-1901, and wife Susannaha Smith Adams 1819-1892, of Company C, Sergeant of Sick Detachment under Captain James Brown. They lost two children at birth then adopted a son, John S. Page Adams. John did not go on the march with them. Susan had been raised in the home of a doctor and was able to bring much comfort to the company
(see: http://members.aol.com/Cballd/adams.html AND http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/orsonhouse.html)

Allen, Franklin 1808-1890 of Company B; wife Rebecca and one child listed in 1846 with a wagon, and four oxen may have been left at Council Bluff..

Allred, James Tillman Sanford 1825-1905, and wife Eliza Bridget Manwaring Allred 1821-1866 of Company A; they had no wagon but shared one with an elderly couple; she gave birth to a son who died shortly after birth, but the company would not stop while her husband buried the infant. James was so weak he barely caught up to the company.

Allen, Reuben Warren 1827-1916, and wife Elzadie Emeline Ford Allen 1827, of Company A

Averett, Jeduthan Hardy (Juthan/Judithon Everett) 1816-1902 of Company D; md. Holly Jane Tingle.

Beckstead (Besched), William Ezra 1829-1909 of Company C

Bingham, Erastus Jr. 1823-1906 of Company B; md. Olive Hovey Freeman 1843; he was detailed at Pueblo to help care for the sick.

Bird, William 1823-1894 of Co. B; md. Ann Roylance 1851.

Black, George David 1841-1912; five year old child of Mary McRee Black Brown; md. Mary Hunt in 1861.

Blanchard, Mervin Simeon 1824-1847 -died in Pueblo on April 10th from lingering illness and pneumonia. Tyler wrote that "The great number of deaths that occurred among that portion of the Battalion who wintered at Pueblo were doubtless due, mainly, to disease contracted through the exposure and hardships of the journey and the murderous drugging which they had received from Dr. Sanderson; md Elizabeth Cogswell (?).

Brown, Agnes, wife of Edmund L. Brown ( he continued on to California)

Brown, Alexander 1826-1910 - son of Captain James Brown, Corporal of Mormon Battalion Company C; later assigned to Sick Detachment; md. in 1850 to Amanda McMurty or McMurtrey 1834-1918 at Greenwood Valley, San Bernardino, California.

Brown, Eunice Reasor, wife of James Polly Brown (1803-1871) md.19 Feb 1846

Brown, Harriet Stanton St. John, wife of Daniel Brown; md. 29 Jan 1846 in Nauvoo; buried in Watsonville Cemetery, Santa Cruz, California.

Brown, James Jr. - Captain of Mormon Battalion Company C; later co-Captain of Sick Detachment.

Brown, Jesse Sowell, 1829-1905; son of Captain James Brown, was Sergeant in Company C; md. in 1857 to Caroline Stewart 1832-1920 at Yankee Jim's, Placer County, California.

Brown, Mary McRee Black, wife 6 of Captain James Brown

Brown, Mary Ann (5 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Brown, Sarah Jane (13 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Buchannan, John of Co. D

Button, Louisa M. (child 1842-1868)

Button, Mary Bittels, wife of Montgomery E. Button, md. 13 Sep 1835

Button, Montgomery Button with wife and three children: Jutson Hurlburt Button 1839-1924, Samuel Button 1844-1890, and James H. Button 1836-1859

Calkins, James W. of Co. A

Calvert, John H. Calvert of Co. C

Thomas Carn

Carpenter, Isaac of Co. C

Carpenter, William H. of Co. C

Casto, William W. of Co. D - deserted and retrieved

Chase, Abner of Co. D. - died at Pueblo

Chase, Almira Higgins 1830-1873, dau. of Nelson Higgins, md, near Pueblo, CO on 17 Feb 1837 to John Darwin Chase.

Chase, John Denton of Co. B, and wife, Elizabeth Longley (md. 6 Aug 1843)

Cummings, George Washington of Co. E

Calvert, John

David, James of Co. D

Douglas, Ralph of Co. D

Durphee or Durfee, Francilias [Francillo] of Co. C

Earl, James C. of Co. A

Eastman, Marcus N.

Garner, David of Co. A

Garner, Philip of Co. B

Gifford, William W. or B, of Co. D

Glazier, Luther W. of Co. E

Glines, James H. of Co. A - deserter

Gould, John C. of Co. C

Gould, Samuel J. of Co. C

GribbleWilliam of Co. C, with wife Sophia Smith; divorced Aug 1847; she married William Tubbs

Hancock, John Reed (5 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Hart, Nathan ( child)

Hanks, Ebenezer Joseph of Co. E, and wife, Jane Wells Cooper Hanks (md 27 Oct 1839)

Hendrickson, James

Hess, Emeline Bigler

Hess, John W 1824-1903 of  Co. E, with wife, Emeline Bigler Hess

Hewlitt [Hulet], Schuyler - non-member of LDS church

[Higgins, Almira Higgins Chase 1830-1873. See Chase, above.]

Higgins, Drusilla (14 years old went arrived in SL Valley)

Higgins, Nelson - Captain of Mormon Battalion Company D; later co-Captain of Sick Detachment

Higgins, Sarah Blackman 1806-1864, wife of Captain Nelson Higgins

Higgins, Wealthy Matilda (b. 2 May 1847 at Pueblo, two months old when arrived in SL Valley)

Hirams [Hirons], James/John P. of Co. D, and wife Mary Ann Jameson Hirons.

Holden, Elijah E. of Co. A

Elijah E. Holden

Hopkins, Charles A. of Co. E

Hoskins, Henry of Co. E

Hulet, Schuyler of Co A

Hunt, Gilbert

Hunt, Matilda Nease, second wife and children of Jefferson Hunt, he went on to CA

Hunt, Mary (2 years when arrived in SL Valley)

Huntington, Dimick Baker with wife, Fannie Maria Allen Huntington 1810-1894, and three children

Huntington, Martha Zina (1844-1883; 3 years when arrived in SL Valley)

Jackson, Charles A. of Co. A

Jacobs, Henry Bailey of Co. A

Johnson, Jarvis of Co.C

Karren, Thomas III of Co. E

Kelley, Nicholas with wife and their child

Kelly, Parley (child)

Kenney [Kinney], Lorin/Loren E. of Co. D

Lake, Barnabas of Co. A

Lamb, Lisbon of Co. D

Larson, Thurston of Co. D

Laughlin, David S.

Luddington, Elam - 1st Lieutenant of Company B; Sick Detachment under Captain James Brown with wife Mary Eliza Clark; children: Angeline A.; Elam's mother, Lena Monger Luddington.

Mayfield, Jackson

Mayfield, John (child)

Mayfield, Sarah (child)

McIntyre, Dr. William - command staff

Merrill sisters - Albina Mariam Merrill Williams, and Phoebe Lodema Merrill Stillman came as a nurse

Mesick (Mesheck), Peter I. or J. of Co. D

Miller, Daniel M. of Co. E

Mowrey, Harley W.

Nease, Ellen is Capt. Jefferson Hunt's sister-in-law

Nease, Peter is Capt. Jefferson Hunt's brother-in-law

Nowlin, Jabez (Jabes) T. of Co. C

Oakley, James E. of Co. D

Oiler (Oyler), Melchir (Melcher) of Co. A - died

Park. Andrew Duncan (2 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Park, William A. of Co. E

Perkins, David Martin of Co. C

Perkins, Isaac

Perkins, John Calvin of Co. C - died at Pueblo after a lingering illness.

Pierson (Person), Harmon D. of Co. B

Pierson (Person), Judson A. of Co. C

Pugmire, Jonathan Jr. of Co. E

Reeston, John P. (see Whriston)

Richards, Joseph W. of Co. A - dead

Roberts, Benjamin M. of Co. D

Rowe, Caratat (Carrotad) C. of Co. A

Rowe, William of Co. D

Roberts, Benjamin

Sanderson, Henry W. of Co. D

Sargent, Abel M. of Co. D

Sargent, Caroline (11 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Scott, James R. of Co. E - died

Sessions, John 1821-1894 of Co. A, with wife, Mary Emeline Sessions md. July 1846

Sessions, Richard 1799-1879 of Co. A

Sessions, William Bradford 1827-1889 of Co. A

Sharp, Albert of Co. D

Norman Sharp's widow, Martha Jane Sargent Sharp 1827-1920, and her sister, Caroline Sargent [Stoddard in 1851].

Sharp, Sarah Ellen (b. 28 Nov 1846 in Pueblo, CO; 8 months old when arrived in SL Valley)

Shelton, Carolyne (child)

Shelton, Mariah (child)

Shelton, Sebert C., 2nd Sergeant, wife Elizabeth Trains Fraim Shelton, total of nine in his family

Shupe. Andrew J. of Co. C

Shupe, Elizabeth Margaret (4 months old when arrived in SL Valley)

Shupe, James Wright. of Co. C, and wife, Sarah Coats Prunty; children: Elizabeth Margaret Shupe b. 2 March 1847 at Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado.

Smith, John G. of Co. E

Smith, Milton of Co. C -dead and his widow (subsequently marries Burns)

Smith, Richard of Co.C

Smith, Elisha, not a member of the Mormon Battalion, he was a teamster who died en route to CA, his wife Rebecca Smith traveled with the Sick Detachment

Steele , John Stanton Jr. and wife Catherine Campbell Steele

Steele, Mary Campbell (b. Dec 23, 1840 = 6 years when arrived in SL Valley)

Stephens (Stevens), Roswell 

Stevens, Arnold of Co. D - dead

Stevens, Lyman of Co. B

Stillman, Clark of Co. D, and his wife, 1846 Phoebe Lodema Merrill (1851Amelia Narcissa Sperry)

Stillman, Dexter - may be child of Clark and Phoebe

Stillman, William of Co. B

Tanner, Myron of Co. D

Terrell, Joel J. of Co. C

Tindell, Solomon of Co. C

Walker, William of Co. B - did not go West

Whiting, Almon of Co. D

Whiting, Edmond W. of Co. D

Wilkins, David of Co. C, and wife Isabelle McNair Hunter

Williams, Caroline Marian (4 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Williams, Ephraim Thomas (2 years old when arrived in SL Valley)

Williams, Thomas Stephen of Co. D, with wife Albina Merrill Williams (1826-1914) took their two small children, Ephraim Williams and Caroline Williams, and while at Pueblo, gave birth to a daughter whom she called Phebe Isabella Williams on January 15, 1847 in Pueblo, on the Mormon Battalion trek.

Willis, William Wesley - one of the captains or lieutenant of Sick Detachment

Wright, Charles of Co B -deserter

Wriston, John P. of Co. A

LIEUTENANT WILLIAM W. WILLIS RIO GRANDE SICK DETACHMENT

On November 10. 1846, Colonel Cook sent Willis from the Rio Grande River back to Pueblo with the following group. They arrived on December 20, 1946. There were 56 men and one woman in the Willis Sick Detachment (Rio Grande Detachment).

Willis, William W. Captain

Babcock, Lorenzo 1823-1903 of Company C; contracted mountain fever then sent to Pueblo. Md. Amy Ann Marble.

Badham, Samuel, Pvt. Co.D; died in Iowa.

Bevan, James 1819-1894 Pvt. of Company A (Heart Throbs of the West Vol. 12, 1951, pages 116-117)

Bingham, Thomas, Sr. 1824-1889 of Co. B (see Bliss Journal 11/10/1846); md. Caron Happoch Holladay 1849 (b. 1830), she entered SL Valley with William Crosby Company; bro of Erastus Bingham of Company B;

Blackburn, Abner Levi Sr.,1827-1908 [or 2 Nov 1904] - Private Company C. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847. (See Bliss Journal, March 12, 1848); md. Lucinda Harris 1852 in San Bernardino, California

Bliven or Beven, Jane 43 (may be mother of James Beven⁾

Brazier, Richard, Co.E

Brimhall, John, Co.C

Brown, Daniel L. (b. 1825 in Clymer,Chataugua,New York) Co.E

(Brown, Harriet Stanton St. John, wife of Daniel Brown md. 29 Jan 1846 in Nauvoo (later divorced, She traveled in the Brown Sick Detachment; she married Swarthout, then DeWitt, then Akers). Harriet was buried in Watsonville Cemetery, Santa Cruz County, California

Burns, Thomas R., Co.E

Burt, William, Co.C

Bybee, John M. of Co.B

Calkins, Alva C. of Co.A

Camp, James G. of Co.B

Carter, Richard, Co.B - died

Cazier, James, Co.E

Cazier, John, Co.E

Church, Haden W., Co.B

Clark, Albert, Co.E

Clark, George S., Co.B

Coleman, George Moroni, Co.A - recorded death Dec 18, 1846 from dysentery, short distance from Turley Ranch, near Pueblo, Colorado. His wife Mary Reeves Coleman and son Moroni Coleman entered Salt Lake Valley in 1852. Mary married her sister Ann Eliza's widower, Joseph Godfrey in 1857.

Compton, Allen, Co.D

Curtis, Josiah, Co.A

Dalton, Edward, Co.D

Dalton, Harry, Co.D

Dobson, Eli, Co.A - died

Dunn, James, Co.C

Eastman, Marcus, Co.B

Frederick, David, I. Co.A

Freeman, Elijah, Co. B - died (see Bliss Journal 9/29, 11/6 & 11/10/1846)

Green, John W., Co.C - died

Gribble, Sophia Huldah Smith, wife of William Gribble; divorced Aug 1847 - first Utah divorce; she then might have married Wm. Tubbs

Hewett, Eli B., Co.A

Higgins, Alfred, Co.D

Hinckley, Arza E., Co.B

Hoagland, Lucas, Co.D

Johnstun or Johnston, Jesse W., Co.C

Maxwell, Maxie, Co.A

McClellan, William E,, Co.E

Mecham, Erastus D., Co.D

Richardson, Thomas L., Co.E

Richmond, Benjamin B., Co.C

Rust, William W., Co.C

Shipley, Joseph, Co.C

Skeen, Joseph, Co.E

Squires, William, Co.C

Stewart, Benjamin R., Co.D

Stewart, James, Co.D

Thomas, Hayward, Co.D

Thomas, Nathan T., Co.C

Tippets, John, Co.D, courier

Tubbs, William R., Co.D, and wife of William Gribble, Huldah Sophia Smith Gribble; md 8/1847; Journal History for 4 Aug 1848 indicates Presidents Young, Kimball & Richards heard the case of Tubbs was accused of "improper conduct with Harriat Brown" and adultery with Sophie Gribble, which led to her subsequent divorce from William Gribble.

Welsh, Madison, Co.C

Whitney, Francis T., Co.B (see Bliss Journal 11/10/1846)

Wilson, George Deliverance of Co. E -brother of Stephen Fairchild Wilson

Woodworth, Lysander, Co.A

Woolsey, Thomas Ezra, Co.E, courier

Wriston, Isaac N., Co.A

CAPTAIN NELSON HIGGINS' FAMILY DETACHMENT

The chance meeting of Lt. Andrew Jackson Smith, interim battalion commander, with the Mississippi leader John Brown and his men, resulted in the first of the three Sick Detachments to be sent to Pueblo, Colorado. The separation occurred on September 18, 1846 and they arrived in Pueblo, Colorado early in October 1846.

Higgins, Nelson, Captain
Wife: Sarah Blackman Higgins; children: Almira, Alfred, Druscilla, Heber, Nelson, Carlos, Wealtha (born in Pueblo)

Brown, James Polly 1803-1871
Wife 3: Eunice Reasor; children: Neuman, Robert, Sarah, Mary Ann, and John Taylor Brown - born June 2, 1847, one month old at time arrived in SL Valley. To distinguish him from Captain James Brown he took on his mother, Margaret Polly, maiden name. While in Pueblo he helped prepare shelters for sick members of the detachment.

Button, Montgomery
Wife: Mary Bittels; children: James, Jutson, Louisa, Samuel.

Hendrickson, James.

Hunt, Celia Mounts, first wife of Captain Charles Jefferson Hunt, he continued to California;
children: John, Jane, Harriet, Joseph, Hyrum and eighteen month old twins Parley and Mary. Parley Hunt died in Pueblo, January 1st or 2nd, 1847. Mary Hunt later married George David Black.

Hunt, Gilbert (married Lydia A. Gibson in Pueblo).

Huntington, Dimick B.
Wife: Fanny Maria Allen Huntington; children: Lot Elisha, Martha Zina,

Clark Allen, Betsy (born in Pueblo; lived only a short time, died in Pueblo)

Kelley, Milton.
Wife: Malinda Allison; child: Malinda Catherine, born in Pueblo.

Kelley, Nicholas
Wife: Sarah Ann Price Kelley; child: Raymond Parley, Betsy.

Mowrey, Harley

Sharp, Norman (died en route to or at Pueblo)
Wife: Martha Jane Sargent; children: Sarah Ellen, born in Pueblo and Martha’s sister, Caroline Sargent.

Shelton, Sebert C.
Wife: Elizabeth Trains Mayfield; children: Emily Caroline, Cooper, Marion J., Abraham C., Thomas B., Mary Elizabeth; by Elizabeth’s first marriage: Andrew J. Mayfield, John Mayfield, and Sarah Mayfield.

MISSISSIPPI COMPANY OF SAINTS

Brigham Young called John Brown, a native of Tennessee, to help organize and lead the Saints living in Monroe County, Mississippi to their new destination in California. In company with William Crosby, D.M. Thomas, William Lay, James Harmon, and George W. Bankhead, he left on April 8, 1846 by way of a southern route to the Platte River and were to meet up with the migrating Saints from Nauvoo. At Independence, Perry County, Missouri the Robert Crow family of twelve members joined the caravan. This group waited for two weeks for the Nauvoo Saints to arrive. When they felt it was futile to continue to wait they moved on the Oregon Trail towards Fort Laramie. Here they were advised to continue on to Fort Bend Colorado. Here they obtained corn, food, and needed supplies. On August 7, 1846 they arrived at Pueblo, Colorado where it was decided that they would wait out the winter.. Absalom P. Dowdle was appointed Presiding Elder of the Latter-day Saint Pueblo branch.
On September 1, 1946, John Brown and his five men returned to Mississippi. On September 12, these men met up with the Mormon Battalion and told the soldiers that a group of Saints were settled in at Pueblo. This gave Lieutenant A. J. Smith food for thought regarding the situation with the many women, children, older folks, unruly soldiers, and sick soldiers that were slowing down the movement of this battalion. The Mississippi Saints were soon joined by the Brown, Nelson, and Higgins Sick Detachments.

This list represents a fairly accurate list of the 14 families in the Mississippi Company of Saints:

Bankhead, George Washington 1819- ; md. to Sarah Swinden Bankhead around 1843

Chesney, James A. (20)

Crosby, William , captain of this company and his Negro slaves: Oscar Crosby and Grief Crosby

Crow, Benjamin Brown (1819 or 1824 - 28 years)

Crow, Elizabeth "Betsy" (1795- 52 years)

Crow, Elizabeth Jane (1830 - 9 years)

Crow, George W [probably George Washington Therlkill].

Crow, Harriett [probably Harriet Ann Therlkill]

Crow, Ira Minda Almarene (1832

Crow, Isa Vinda Exene (1832)

Crow, John McHenry (1824 - 23 years)

Crow, Matilda Jane (1825.)

Crow, Robert (1794 - 53 yrs) counsellor of this company, and wife Brooke [Betsy Brown -52 yrs]

Crow, Walter Hamilton (1824 or 1826 - 21)

Crow, William Parker( 1828 - 19 yrs)

Dowdle, Absalom Porter (1819 - 28 years)

Dowdle, Sarah Ann Holladay (1828 -19)

Dowdle, Sarah Catherine (1846 - infant)

Gibson, George Washington 1800-1871

Gibson, Manomas Lovina 1842-1940; dau of George Washington Gibson and Mary Ann Sparks Gibson; remembers with gratitude the kindness of the trappers Spanish wives who saved her family from starvation at Pueblo; married James Andrus 1836-1914 on 12 Sep 1863 in SLC, in 1857 James married her sister, Laura Arilla Gibson 1837-1905; later she married Lot Huntington 1834-1862 who was at Pueblo at age of 12; she lived in St. George, Utah in 1938

Gibson, Mary Ann Sparks 1802-18

Gibson, Mary Denisia 1823-, married William "Bill" New in Santa Fe, where they remained

Gibson, Lydia A., married Gilbert Hunt in Pueblo, CO.

Gibson, Robert B.

Gibson, Frances Abigail

Gibson, William C.

Gibson, Laura Altha

Gibson, Moses

Gibson, Manomas Lavinia

Gibson, Joseph

Harmon, James (46)

Harmon, James Bartley (7)

Harmon, John Taylor (infant)

Harmon, Josephine Smith (2)

Harmon, Paralee America (12)

Harmon, Mary Ann Blanks Smithson, wife of James Harmon

Harmon, Sarah Elizabeth (6)

Holladay, Caron Happuch (17)

Holladay, Catherine Beasley Higgins (49)

Holladay, David Hollis (14)

Holladay, John "Jack" Daniel, Sr., counsellor of this company(49)

Holladay, Keziah Donnell (12)

Holladay, Lenorah McCray (8)

Holladay, Thomas Wiley Middleton (10)

Kartchner, Margaret Jane Casteel (21-22 yrs. ), wife of William Kartchner

Kartchner, Sarah Emma born on August 17, 1846 at Pueblo, being the first white child born in Colorado;

Kartchner, William Decatur (27)

Little, Archibald (Unknown)

Mathews, Benjamin, son of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Elizabeth Adeline Bankhead (Unknown), wife of William Mathews

Mathews, Elvira Narcissa, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Emma Louise, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Ezekiel Cunningham, son of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Jane Elizabeth , daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, John Lynn, son of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Mahalia (Unknown)

Mathews, Marie Celeste, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Martha Roxanna, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Temperance and Benjamin

Mathews, Nancy Melissa, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Sally, daughter of Temperance and Benjamin

Mathews, Sarah Jane, daughter of Temperance and Benjamin

Mathews, Sina Adeline, daughter of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, Temperance Weeks (Unknown), wife of Benjamin Mathews.

Mathews, Thomas Marion (Unknown), son of William and Elizabeth

Mathews, William (1796) and his Negro slave, Uncle Phil

Myers, Lewis B. (Unknown)

Reer, Josephine, daughter of Mary Ann

Reer, Mary Ann

Reer, Perrill E. James, son of Mary Ann

Reer, Sally Ann, daughter of Mary Ann

Ritter, Anderson Taylor, son of William and Sally Ann

Ritter, Sally Ann, wife of William

Ritter, William C.

Roberds, Frances Elinore, daughter of John and Martha

Roberds, John (d. 15 Oct 1878)

Roberds, Harriet Luanna, daughter of John and Martha

Roberds, Lodesky Ann, daughter of John and Martha

Roberds, Martha Tucker Walpole (b. 16 May 1817), wife of John (m. 4 Sep 1834 Monroe, Mississippi)

Roberds, Mary Belvidere, daughter of John and Martha

Roberds, Thomas Richard, son of John and Martha

Roberds, William Brown, son of John and Martha

Smithson, Allen Freeman (31)

Smithson, Almira (5), daughter of William

Smithson, Eliza, daughter of William

Smithson, Elvira (ca. 2)

Smithson, James Davis (3), son of Allen

Smithson, John Bartley (6), son of Allen

Smithson, Letitia Holladay (24), wife of Allen Freeman Smithson

Smithson, Lucinda, married to William C. Smithson

Smithson, Martha (8), daughter of William

Smithson, Mary Ann (39)

Smithson, Mary Emma (1), daughter of Allen

Smithson, Sarah Catherine (4), daughter of Allen

Smithson, Sarah Elizabeth (14), daughter of William

Smithson, William Cox (43), wife is Lucinda Smithson

Sparks, George W., married to Lorena

Sparks, Lorena Smithson, wife of George W. Sparks

Sparks, Mary Ann,

Sparks, William Thomas

Terrill, William

Therlkill, George Washington (1826 or 1832)

Therlkill, Harriet Ann (1846)

Therlkill, James William (1847)

Therlkill, Matilda Jane Crow (1825 - 22 yrs. )

Therlkill, Milton Howard (1844 - 3 yrs)

Mississippi Saint Diary of William Decatur Kartchner 1820-1892, Reminiscences and Diary from 1878-1884, Pages 27-32.

Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 8. DUP 1947, Page 412:
"The following is a list of the families which arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley together with Capt. Brown's detachment of the Mormon Battalion, given from memory by John Mayfield Shelton [stepfather's last name], one of the company.

List of the families in the Pueblo Company, which arrived in the Salt Lake Valley July 29, 1847: Mormon Battalion
Captain James Brown, wife and child [Mary McRee Black Brown, George David Black Jr.].
Captain Nelson Higgins, wife and several children.
Captain Hunt's family.
2nd Serg. Sebert C. Shelton, nine in family.
Thomas Williams, wife and child.
Ebenezer Hanks and wife.
Dimick B. Huntington, wife and three children.
Montgomery Button, wife and three children.
Nicholas Kelley, wife and one child.
Norman Sharp's widow and her sister.
James Polly Brown, third wife and three children.
Wm. R. Tubbs and wife, Sophia.
Clark Stillman and wife.
John Steele and wife.
Orson B. Adams and wife, Susan.
John Hirons and wife, Mary Ann.
.......Smith's widow (subsequently Burns).
Dave Wilkins and wife, Isabella.
John Chase and wife."

Pueblo Pioneers - William Johnson, Iva Melton, Laura Bell

"One black woman, Alice Rowan, the daughter of two of the Mississippi servants who went to California with their families, became a schoolteacher and taught white children at Riverside. She may very well have been the first black to teach at a white school in the United States."---from Leonard J. Arrington, “Mississippi Mormons,” Ensign, June 1977,  page 46.

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Add quote from Brigham Young about if they had acted like he told them to then none of them would have died.

Add quote that not only the sick were in this Sick Detachment but also the unruly, the complainers, the troublemakers and undisciplined. Kearney wanted to get the women and children and the rabble-rousers sorted out of the main body of the MB so they could travel to California faster.

Add story of CJB's daughter, Nancy Brown Davis, and her husband Eleazer Davis, continuing on with the MB.

Add quote per not that sick, actually in pretty good health.