Son of William Pettegrew & Phebe Hardy

Married Elizabeth Alden, 1816

Children- Lucy Ann Pettegrew, David Alden Pettegrew, Hyrum King Solomon Pettegrew, Betsey Ann Pettegrew Gilbert, James Phineas Pettegrew, Caroline Hazel Pettegrew, Lydia Louisa Pettegrew, George Fredrick Pettegrew

Married Caroline Cope, 12 Feb 1856 Salt Lake City, Utah

Children - Mary Caroline Pettegrew, William Heleman Pettegrew, Josephine Pettegrew, Annie Maria Pettegrew, Joseph Moroni Pettegrew

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 1

Pettegrew, David, first Bishop of the Tenth Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah, was born July 29, 1791, in Weathersfield, Windsor county, Vermont, and received his diploma from Harmony Lodge, No. 2, Cincinnati, Ohio, as a master mason, Oct. 4, 1820. He was baptized by Elder Isaac Higbee in 1832, and in the following November went with his family to Jackson county, Mo., where he bought 160 acres of land and settled on the Big Blue river, six miles west of Independence. Nov. 8, 1833, he was driven from his home, which was burned by an armed mob, led by Gen. Moses Wilson and Hugh Brazeille, a lawyer. Together with six other men, who were not sick, and 84 women, children and sick men, he went south to Van Buren county, and took shelter from a severe snow storm in a cave, from which retreat they were driven on the lath of that month. He lived in Clay county three years and then removed to Caldwell county, where he bought more government land and again built a house. In the fall of 1838, he, with about sixty others, was incarcerated in Richmond jail for several weeks, and in January, 1839, was expelled from the State of Missouri, under the exterminating order of Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs. He removed to Commerce (afterwards Nauvoo) in 1839, where he acted as a member of the High Council. He left Nauvoo May 20, 1846, and arrived at Council Bluffs on July 1st. A few days later he enlisted in the Mormon Battalion, and marched to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was appointed commissary-sergeant, and continued in that office until the command arrived in California. In July, 1847, he received an honorable discharge and came to Great Salt Lake valley in the following September. He was a senator in the Provisional State of Deseret, commencing Dec. 8, 1849; chaplain in the lower house of the Utah legislature during the sessions of 1857-58 and 1860-61; presided over the High Priests quorum from Oct. 8, 1853, to April 7, 1856, and acted as Bishop of the 10th Ward, Salt Lake City, from April, 1849, to his death, which occurred in said city Dec. 31, 1863. He lived and died a good man, firm in the faith, and beloved by all who knew him.

Rank as Private in company E and Chaplain in Mormon Battalion

Mormon Battalion members