Of the Battalion members, 33 are known to have become later residents of
Arizona, with addition of one of the women who had accompanied the
Battalion to Santa Fe and who had wintered at Pueblo. There is
gratification over the fact that it has been found possible to secure
photographs of nearly all the 33. Reproduction of these photographs
accompanies this chapter. When this work was begun, only about ten
Battalion members could be located as having been resident in this State.
Some of those who came back to Arizona were notable in their day, for all
of them now have made the last march of humanity.
Jas. S. Brown, who helped find gold in California, was an early Indian
missionary on the Muddy and in northeastern Arizona. Edward Bunker
founded Bunkerville, a Virgin River settlement, and later died on the San
Pedro, at St. David. Geo. P. Dykes, who was the first adjutant of the
Battalion, did service for his Church in 1849 and 1850 in Great Britain
and Denmark. Philemon C. Merrill, who succeeded Dykes as adjutant, was
one of the most prominent of the pioneers of the San Pedro and Gila
valleys. There is special mention, elsewhere, of Christopher Layton. In
the same district, at Thatcher, lived and died Lieut. James Pace. Henry
Standage was one of the first settlers of Alma Ward, near Mesa. Lot
Smith, one of the vanguard in missionary work in northeastern Arizona and
a leader in the settlement of the Little Colorado Valley, was slain by
one of the Indians to whose service he had dedicated himself. Henry W.
Brizzee was a leading pioneer of Mesa. Henry G. Boyle became the first
president of the Southern States mission of his church, and was so
impressed with the view he had of Arizona, in Battalion days, that, early
in 1877, he sent into eastern Arizona a party of Arkansas immigrants.
Adair, in southern Navajo County, was named after a Battalion member.
A complete list of Arizona Battalion members follows:
Wesley Adair, Co. C.--Showlow.
Rufus C. Allen, Co. A.--Las Vegas.
Reuben W. Allred, Co. A.--Pima.
Mrs. Elzada Ford Allred--Accompanied husband.
Henry G. Boyle, Co. C.--Pima.
Henry W. Brizzee, Co. D.--Mesa.
James S. Brown, Co. D.--Moen Copie.
Edward Bunker, Co. E.--St. David.
George P. Dykes, Co. D.--Mesa.
Wm. A. Follett, Co. E.--Near Showlow.
Schuyler Hulett, Co. A.--Phoenix.
John Hunt--Snowflake--Accompanied his father, Capt. Jefferson Hunt.
Marshall (Martial) Hunt, Co. A.--Snowflake.
Wm. J. Johnston, Co. C.--Mesa..
Nathaniel V. Jones, Co. D.--Las Vegas.
Hyrum Judd, Co. E.--Sunset and Pima.
Zadok Judd, Co. E.--Fredonia.
Christopher Layton, Co. C.--Thatcher.
Samuel Lewis, Co. C.--Thatcher.
Wm. B. Maxwell, Co. D.--Springerville.
Wm. C. McClellan, Co. E.--Sunset.
Philemon C. Merrill, Co. B.--Pima.
James Pace, Co. E.--Thatcher.
Wilson D. Pace, Co. E.--Thatcher.
Sanford Porter, Co. E.--Sunset.
Wm. C. Prous (Prows), Co. B.--Mesa.
David Pulsipher, Co. C.--Concho.
Samuel H. Rogers, Co. B.--Snowflake.
Henry Standage, Co. E.--Mesa.
George E. Steele, Co. A.--Mesa.
John Steele, Co. D.--Moen Copie.
Lot Smith, Co. E.--Sunset and Tuba.
Samuel Thompson, Co. C.--Mesa.
[Illustration: THE MORMON BATTALION MONUMENT Proposed to be erected at a
cost of $200,000 on the Utah State Capitol Grounds.]
[Illustration: OLD SPANISH TOWN OF TUBAC. Map made 1754. Where a Mormon
Colony located in the fall of 1851; 42 miles south of Tucson.]