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- NAUVOO RECORDS:
Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 25, pp 577-579
HISTORY/HISTORIES:
Mormon Battalion
Kirkland Zion's Camp, p 39
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol 2, p 750
HISTORY/HISTORIES: Latter-day Saint LDS Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Johnson, Henry Mitchell, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company A,
was born July 12, 1821, in Dearborn, Dearborn Co., Indiana, a son of
Cornelius Johnson and Nancy Johnson. He emigrated with his mother to
Jackson County, Missouri, in 1832, was baptized in the summer of 1833,
and in November of the same year was driven with his mother from
Jackson County, being forced to travel bare-footed over the frozen
prairie. In 1848 he was again exiled, and while on this journey
westward, he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion and marched to
California. He arrived in Utah Oct. 24, 1848. In the spring of 1849 he
was ordained an Elder, and in September, 1850, he married Louisa
Frances Clark. Bro. Johnson was a minute man in all the Indian wars,
was a lieutenant in the "Life Guards," and in April, 1856, he was
called on a mission to Carson Valley, and got as far as Ogden, when he
was taken sick. He returned to Salt Lake City and died March 20, 1857.
BIRTH: UNKNOWN TOWNSHIP: Cleaves Twp, Dearborn, Illinois
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