Biography
John Taylor Harmon was born 6 April 1847 in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, United States to James Harmon (1801-1851) and Mary Ann Blanks Smithson (1808-1897) and died 2 March 1926 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of unspecified causes. He married Susan Chessel White (1857-1942) 4 December 1879 .
John Taylor Harman: When most of the family migrated west with the Mormons in 1846, they were ahead of the main group, so they went south of the main trail and wintered in Pueblo where he was born. They moved to California to the gold fields. He married Susan Chesley White. He died at age 89.
Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company

Numbered amoung the participants in the Mississippi Saints 1846 Pioneer Company, a early Mormon pioneer wagon train that left Mississippi in 1846 to join the Mormon exodus to Utah. This group Brigham Young's vanguard company and spent the winter of 1846/47 at Fort Pueblo where the were joined by soldiers of the sick detachment of the Mormon Battalion. They reached Salt Lake City in late summer of 1847.
John was born during the Wagon Company's winter layover at Fort Pueblo.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
John Dewey Harmon (1898-1974) |
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See Also
- John Harmon
- Harmon in Pueblo County, Colorado
- Harmon in Salt Lake County, Utah