Married Annaretta Harris, Woods Cross (Bountiful), Davis, Utah
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Brimhall, John, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born April 16, 1824, in Steuben County, New York. Becoming a convert to "Mormonism', he was baptized Oct. 20, 1845, enlisted in July, 1846, in the Battalion, marched to Santa Fe, N. M., where he was placed with the sick detachment and marched to Pueblo, where he spent the winter of 1846-1847. The following spring (1847) the sick detachment of the Battalion and the company of Mississippi saints who had also wintered at Pueblo, continued the journey to the "Valley," where they arrived a few days after the Pioneers. Bro. Brimhall helped to make the first adobes in the "Valley," passed through many of the Indian troubles as a military man and experienced the hardships which fell to the lot of the early pioneers. After changing residences several times, he died at Glendale, Kane Co., Utah, Dec. 18, 1906, at the age of 82 years. By his wife, Anna Retta Harris, he had ten children, eight of whom were living at the time of his death.
JOHN BRIMHALL, Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with Detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Annaretta Harris, Woods Cross (Bountiful), Davis, Utah
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Brimhall, John, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born April 16, 1824, in Steuben County, New York. Becoming a convert to "Mormonism', he was baptized Oct. 20, 1845, enlisted in July, 1846, in the Battalion, marched to Santa Fe, N. M., where he was placed with the sick detachment and marched to Pueblo, where he spent the winter of 1846-1847. The following spring (1847) the sick detachment of the Battalion and the company of Mississippi saints who had also wintered at Pueblo, continued the journey to the "Valley," where they arrived a few days after the Pioneers. Bro. Brimhall helped to make the first adobes in the "Valley," passed through many of the Indian troubles as a military man and experienced the hardships which fell to the lot of the early pioneers. After changing residences several times, he died at Glendale, Kane Co., Utah, Dec. 18, 1906, at the age of 82 years. By his wife, Anna Retta Harris, he had ten children, eight of whom were living at the time of his death.
JOHN BRIMHALL, Private. On detached service since Nov. 10, 1846, by Battalion Order No. 16. Mustered out with Detachment, to date July 16, 1847.
* Mormon Battalion members
Inscription
PIONEER OF 1847
MEMBER OF MORMON BATTALLION
Family Members
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Lydia Ann Brimhall Jolley
1851–1893
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Sarah Brimhall Dymoke
1853–1920
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John William Brimhall
1854–1933
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Mary Ann Brimhall DeGraw
1856–1932
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Jane Brimhall Myers
1858–1917
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Joseph Moses Brimhall
1860–1938
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Nancy Melvina Brimhall Alcorn
1862–1907
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Cynthia Annaretta Brimhall Perkel
1864–1908
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Arrilla Brimhall Degraw
1866–1951
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Keziah Abigail Brimhall Hopkins
1871–1905
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