Son of Washington Lemmon & Tamer Stephens
Lemmon, James William - born 16 May 1827 in Indiana. His parents, after the birth of two children in Indiana, moved to Adams County, Illinois where an additional ten children were born at or near Quincy. The family joined the LDS Church and James was baptized 15 May 1842. Some of the family were involved in the 1846 exodus of the Mormons from Illinois, but the parents had their last son born near Quincy in November of 1849. Both the parents and most of their children moved to Utah. Nineteen-year-old James was enlisted as a Pvt. in Co. A of the Mormon Battalion near Council Bluffs, Iowa on 16 July 1846. He marched with the battalion to California. At the end of his one year enlistment he was mustered out at Los Angeles on 16 July 1847. He re-enlisted in the Mormon Volunteer company for an additional six months (extended to eight months), serving in the San Diego area and discharged 14 March 1848 at San Diego. Just over forty of the "Mormon Volunteers" went north to Sutter's Fort, but from twenty five to thirty five men formed a company led by Henry G. Boyle which started for Utah by the southern route. Lemmon was in this company. They moved to the Williams Ranch and obtained their supplies and animals for their trip, and they met Mormons Porter Rockwell and James Snow, who the previous winter had traveled from Salt Lake to southern California, and secured their services as guides. The company consisted primarily of packers with only one wagon with 135 horses and mules. They started their desert crossing on April 12th and went through Tejon Pass to San Bernardino and basically followed the Old Spanish Trail to the spring where Las Vegas would later be built and then to Antelope Springs, near where Cedar City, Utah would be developed, where they left the old trail and struck north to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived at Salt Lake on 5 June 1848. Lemmon married Rosanna Avery in 1851 and they resided for a time at Parowan where a daughter was born. In 1853 the family was in Ogden Valley in Weber County where a son was born. Apparently they divorced and Lemmon later married Elizabeth Ramsey. They had children born in Sanpete County in 1857, 1860 and 1863. They eventually moved to Weston, Idaho where the 1880 census had Lemmon as a farmer. Here wife Elizabeth died in 1897, and James William Lemmon died on 14 April 1908 and was buried in the Weston Cemetery. He was included on Daniel Tyler's "Surviving Members of the Battalion" list published in 1881 as follows: "Lemmon [,] James W., Weston, Cache Co., Utah; Farmer."
Lemmon, James William - born 16 May 1827 in Indiana. His parents, after the birth of two children in Indiana, moved to Adams County, Illinois where an additional ten children were born at or near Quincy. The family joined the LDS Church and James was baptized 15 May 1842. Some of the family were involved in the 1846 exodus of the Mormons from Illinois, but the parents had their last son born near Quincy in November of 1849. Both the parents and most of their children moved to Utah. Nineteen-year-old James was enlisted as a Pvt. in Co. A of the Mormon Battalion near Council Bluffs, Iowa on 16 July 1846. He marched with the battalion to California. At the end of his one year enlistment he was mustered out at Los Angeles on 16 July 1847. He re-enlisted in the Mormon Volunteer company for an additional six months (extended to eight months), serving in the San Diego area and discharged 14 March 1848 at San Diego. Just over forty of the "Mormon Volunteers" went north to Sutter's Fort, but from twenty five to thirty five men formed a company led by Henry G. Boyle which started for Utah by the southern route. Lemmon was in this company. They moved to the Williams Ranch and obtained their supplies and animals for their trip, and they met Mormons Porter Rockwell and James Snow, who the previous winter had traveled from Salt Lake to southern California, and secured their services as guides. The company consisted primarily of packers with only one wagon with 135 horses and mules. They started their desert crossing on April 12th and went through Tejon Pass to San Bernardino and basically followed the Old Spanish Trail to the spring where Las Vegas would later be built and then to Antelope Springs, near where Cedar City, Utah would be developed, where they left the old trail and struck north to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived at Salt Lake on 5 June 1848. Lemmon married Rosanna Avery in 1851 and they resided for a time at Parowan where a daughter was born. In 1853 the family was in Ogden Valley in Weber County where a son was born. Apparently they divorced and Lemmon later married Elizabeth Ramsey. They had children born in Sanpete County in 1857, 1860 and 1863. They eventually moved to Weston, Idaho where the 1880 census had Lemmon as a farmer. Here wife Elizabeth died in 1897, and James William Lemmon died on 14 April 1908 and was buried in the Weston Cemetery. He was included on Daniel Tyler's "Surviving Members of the Battalion" list published in 1881 as follows: "Lemmon [,] James W., Weston, Cache Co., Utah; Farmer."
Son of Washington Lemmon & Tamer Stephens
Lemmon, James William - born 16 May 1827 in Indiana. His parents, after the birth of two children in Indiana, moved to Adams County, Illinois where an additional ten children were born at or near Quincy. The family joined the LDS Church and James was baptized 15 May 1842. Some of the family were involved in the 1846 exodus of the Mormons from Illinois, but the parents had their last son born near Quincy in November of 1849. Both the parents and most of their children moved to Utah. Nineteen-year-old James was enlisted as a Pvt. in Co. A of the Mormon Battalion near Council Bluffs, Iowa on 16 July 1846. He marched with the battalion to California. At the end of his one year enlistment he was mustered out at Los Angeles on 16 July 1847. He re-enlisted in the Mormon Volunteer company for an additional six months (extended to eight months), serving in the San Diego area and discharged 14 March 1848 at San Diego. Just over forty of the "Mormon Volunteers" went north to Sutter's Fort, but from twenty five to thirty five men formed a company led by Henry G. Boyle which started for Utah by the southern route. Lemmon was in this company. They moved to the Williams Ranch and obtained their supplies and animals for their trip, and they met Mormons Porter Rockwell and James Snow, who the previous winter had traveled from Salt Lake to southern California, and secured their services as guides. The company consisted primarily of packers with only one wagon with 135 horses and mules. They started their desert crossing on April 12th and went through Tejon Pass to San Bernardino and basically followed the Old Spanish Trail to the spring where Las Vegas would later be built and then to Antelope Springs, near where Cedar City, Utah would be developed, where they left the old trail and struck north to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived at Salt Lake on 5 June 1848. Lemmon married Rosanna Avery in 1851 and they resided for a time at Parowan where a daughter was born. In 1853 the family was in Ogden Valley in Weber County where a son was born. Apparently they divorced and Lemmon later married Elizabeth Ramsey. They had children born in Sanpete County in 1857, 1860 and 1863. They eventually moved to Weston, Idaho where the 1880 census had Lemmon as a farmer. Here wife Elizabeth died in 1897, and James William Lemmon died on 14 April 1908 and was buried in the Weston Cemetery. He was included on Daniel Tyler's "Surviving Members of the Battalion" list published in 1881 as follows: "Lemmon [,] James W., Weston, Cache Co., Utah; Farmer."
Lemmon, James William - born 16 May 1827 in Indiana. His parents, after the birth of two children in Indiana, moved to Adams County, Illinois where an additional ten children were born at or near Quincy. The family joined the LDS Church and James was baptized 15 May 1842. Some of the family were involved in the 1846 exodus of the Mormons from Illinois, but the parents had their last son born near Quincy in November of 1849. Both the parents and most of their children moved to Utah. Nineteen-year-old James was enlisted as a Pvt. in Co. A of the Mormon Battalion near Council Bluffs, Iowa on 16 July 1846. He marched with the battalion to California. At the end of his one year enlistment he was mustered out at Los Angeles on 16 July 1847. He re-enlisted in the Mormon Volunteer company for an additional six months (extended to eight months), serving in the San Diego area and discharged 14 March 1848 at San Diego. Just over forty of the "Mormon Volunteers" went north to Sutter's Fort, but from twenty five to thirty five men formed a company led by Henry G. Boyle which started for Utah by the southern route. Lemmon was in this company. They moved to the Williams Ranch and obtained their supplies and animals for their trip, and they met Mormons Porter Rockwell and James Snow, who the previous winter had traveled from Salt Lake to southern California, and secured their services as guides. The company consisted primarily of packers with only one wagon with 135 horses and mules. They started their desert crossing on April 12th and went through Tejon Pass to San Bernardino and basically followed the Old Spanish Trail to the spring where Las Vegas would later be built and then to Antelope Springs, near where Cedar City, Utah would be developed, where they left the old trail and struck north to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived at Salt Lake on 5 June 1848. Lemmon married Rosanna Avery in 1851 and they resided for a time at Parowan where a daughter was born. In 1853 the family was in Ogden Valley in Weber County where a son was born. Apparently they divorced and Lemmon later married Elizabeth Ramsey. They had children born in Sanpete County in 1857, 1860 and 1863. They eventually moved to Weston, Idaho where the 1880 census had Lemmon as a farmer. Here wife Elizabeth died in 1897, and James William Lemmon died on 14 April 1908 and was buried in the Weston Cemetery. He was included on Daniel Tyler's "Surviving Members of the Battalion" list published in 1881 as follows: "Lemmon [,] James W., Weston, Cache Co., Utah; Farmer."
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