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Thomas Bullock

23 December 1816—10 February 1885

1 Born at Leek, Staffordshire, England; son of Mary Hall and Thomas Bullock. 2 Married Henrietta Rushton; participated in plural marriage. 3 Immigrated to the United States, 1843. 4 Served as scribe to Joseph Smith, as deputy city recorder, as clerk to church historian Willard Richards, and as clerk to the Council of Fifty. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, 1847; returned to Winter Quarters, unorganized U.S. territory, and served as clerk with the 1848 Brigham Young company. 6 Served as Salt Lake County recorder and chief clerk of the House of Representatives for the provisional State of Deseret. 7 Served a mission to England, 1856–1858. 8 Worked as chief clerk to Willard Richards and George A. Smith in the Church Historian’s Office. 9 Moved to Summit County, Utah Territory, 1862; worked as probate court clerk and county recorder. 10 Died at Coalville, Summit County; buried at Salt Lake City. 11 (See Document 1.10, 2.2)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Thomas Bullock MYXX-DWR. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1914), 2:599. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 35036556, Thomas Bullock; Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. 2 Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599. “Ancestral File,” database, Thomas Bullock.

  3. 3 Jerald F. Simon, “Thomas Bullock: A Man Doing His Duty” (master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1988), 1–4. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599. “Ancestral File,” database, Thomas Bullock.

  4. 4 “Mormon Migration,” database, 1840–1932, Mormon Migration (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/, accessed Oct. 2014), Thomas Bullock; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599.

  5. 5 Simon, “A Man Doing His Duty,” 1–4.

  6. 6 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014), Thomas Bullock.

  7. 7 Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599.

  8. 8 C. Ward Despain, “Thomas Bullock, Early Mormon Pioneer” (master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1956), 73–88. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599.

  9. 9 Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599.

  10. 10 Despain, “Early Mormon Pioneer,” 94–100. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 599.

  11. 11 Find a Grave, memorial no. 35036556. “Ancestral File,” database, Thomas Bullock. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Thomas Bullock MYXX-DWR.