Elijah joined the Mormon Battalion in Council Bluffs and marched with the battalion to Santa Fe and then to the Rio Grande River. He became ill with pleurisy and died on the march to Pueblo. It is believed that he is buried east of the south end of the runway of the Socorro airport, between the bluff and the river(Larson, Mormon Battalion, 74)
Elijah joined the Mormon Battalion in Council Bluffs and marched with the battalion to Santa Fe and then to the Rio Grande River. He became ill with pleurisy and died on the march to Pueblo. It is believed that he is buried east of the south end of the runway of the Socorro airport, between the bluff and the river(Larson, Mormon Battalion, 74)
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