John Harvey TIPPETTS

                       Tippets, John Harvey

    LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jenson, Vol. 3, p.269
    Tippets, John Harvey, a member of the Mormon Battalion, was born Sept. 5,
    1810, at Wittingham, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, the son of John Tippets
    and Abigail Pierce. In March, 1832, he heard of the Book of Mormon and walked
    fifteen miles to see it. Becoming converted to "Mormonism" he was baptized in
    the fall of the same year. In the fall of 1834 he first met the Prophet Joseph
    Smith, and from that time till the Saints were driven from Missouri he was
    with them and became subject to all the trials and tribulations of his people.
    He witnessed the betrayal of Joseph Smith and others by Geo. M. Hinkle at Far
    West, Mo., in 1838, went to Nauvoo in 1844, and shared in the persecutions
    there until driven out by the mob. He was in Pres. Brigham Young's company
    when the call for the Mormon Battalion was made, and enlisted in Company D
    (Capt. Nelson Higgins) and marched with a part of the battalion to Pueblo. On
    the 23rd of December, 1846, in company with Thos. Woolsey, he started from
    Pueblo to carry money, mail and dispatches to the Saints at Winter Quarters,
    taking with them their guns, four days' provisions and two mules. After
    enduring untold hardships of hunger and cold, they reached Winter Quarters in
    52 days. On the trip they were taken prisoners by Pawnee Indians and came very
    near being burned at the stake. Soon afterwards they were met by some friendly
    Omaha Indians, who directed them to their journey's end. In the spring [p.270]
    of 1847 Elder Tippets joined the pioneers and traveled with them as far as
    Laramie; thence he went toward Pueblo and joined his company, with which he
    then made his way to Salt Lake Valley, where he arrived in July, 1847. He
    returned to Winter Quarters the same year for his family, and arrived in the
    Valley with his family Sept. 24, 1843. He located in Salt Lake City. In 1856
    he was called on a mission to England and when he returned to Utah in 1858 on
    account of the Johnston Army troubles he found the Saints had moved south. In
    1863 he moved to Farmington, Davis county, where he resided until his death.
    In 1878 he was ordained a Patriarch. For several years he suffered much
    through sickness, but bore his affliction with the utmost patience. Sometime
    before his death he became aware that he could not live much longer and so
    expressed himself, but his mind was clear to the last, and he died in full
    faith in the gospel at his residence in Farmington, Feb. 14, 1890, of dropsy.
    During his life Patriarch Tippets married three wives, by whom he became the
    father of ten children. His first wife, Jane Abigail Smith, bore him two
    children; his second wife, Caroline Hawkins, bore him two, and his third wife,
    Eleanor Wise, six children.

    According to DUP Publication "The First Company to Enter Salt Lake Valley", p.
    130, was born Sep 2, 1810, at Wittingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire.  Was
    baptized in the fall of 1832 and was part of the Mormon persecutions in
    Missouri and Illinois.  He was part of the Mormon Battalion, Company D,
    accompanied the sick detachment to Pueblo, Colorado and then took mail to
    Winter Quarters under very trying circumstances.  Spring of 1847 was chosen as
    one of the men to be in the first company to the SL Valley.  He entered the
    valley on July 29, 1847, turned around to go back to Winter Quarters to pick
    up his family and brought them to the valley in the spring of 1848.  Called on
    a mission to England in 1856 laboring in Liverpool.  Following the Johnston
    army affair, he moved to Farmington, Davis county, Utah where he farmed.  In
    1878 he was ordained a Patriarch.  He had three wives:  Abigail Jane Smith,
    Caroline Hawkins, and Eleanor W