David GARNER

                   HISTORY:

1)  "At age 15, David migrated with his family to Lima, Adams Co., Illinois,
where he united with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839.
In Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, he was ordained a seventy and received his
endowment on 28 January 1846 in the Nauvoo Temple (Nauvoo Temple Register).  He
and his wife, Dolly, fled from religious persecution in Nauvoo to Iowa
Territory.

In Council  Bluffs, David and his brothers, Phillip Garner and William A.
Garner, enlisted in the Mormon Battalion.  He left his wife and three children
on the banks of Mosquito Creek, Iowa Territory, to march with the battalion.
He marched from Council Bluffs to Santa Fe, where he was assigned to the sick
detachment and sent to Fort Pueblo (Tyler, Concise, 169).  After wintering in
the fort he migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, arriving on 27 July 1847.

On 16 August 1847 David departed from the valley to Council Bluffs, where he
united with his family (Carter, Heart, 8:414-15).  They then migrated to the
Salt Lake Valley.  From 1850 to 1870 he resided in Ogden Canyon, Weber, Utah,
where he increased his real wealth from $30 in 1850 to $1500 in 1870 through
farming.  His personal wealth increased from zero in 1850 to $1000 in 1870
(Utah Federal Census, 1850, 1870).

David was given a patriarchal blessing on 6 February 1879 by John Smith
(Patriarchal Blessing Index).  He became a president of the Seventy-eighth
Quorum of the Seventy (Esshom, Pioneers, 885).  David lost an eye while
skinning a muskrat.  He resided in a stone home located on fifty acres of
farmland in Ogden (Pension File).

S. Black and L. Porter, BYU, Biographies, Mormon Battalion

MILITARY:

Private, Company A, Mormon Battalion; enlisted 16 July 1846, Council Bluffs,
Iowa Territory (age 28); Captain James Brown's Detachment:  Pueblo (Santa Fe),
17 October 1846; Discharged:  16 July 1847; Survivor's Pension:  15 October
1889, Utah (S. Black and L. Porter, BYU, Biographies, Mormon Battalion)