Sylvester Hulett (1800 - 1885)

Ancestors

Biography

Sylvester was born in 1800 in Massachusetts, United States.

He was the son of Sylvanns Hulett and Mary Lewis.

He married Christen Whitmer.

He was a 2nd Lieutenant, Company "D" in the Mormon Battalion.

Biographical Notes:

Sylvester was a member of the Mormon Battalion and marched all the way to California where he reenlisted in the army. Early in 1847 he, along with other men of the Battalion, accompanied General Stephen Watts Kearney and Lieutenant Colonel John C, Fremont eastward along the California Trail toward Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In the Sierra Nevada they found and buried remains of the Donner Party. At the Sweetwater River they encountered the westward bound Charles C. Rich Company of Mormon Pioneers, some of whom were Sylvester's relatives. According to Sylvester's Biographical Sketch,written by Adelia B. Cox (a grand-niece, who was an eye witness), at the Sweetwater, Slyvester was released from the service and "turned his face Westward once more with O. [Orival] S. Cox [and] arrived in Salt Lake valley Oct. 2nd, 1847."

He passed away in 1885 in the Utah Territory, United States.

Sources

• Members of the Mormon Battalion, A Sesquicentennial Remembrance, compiled by Dr. Susan Ward Easton, p. 36. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5417209
• Mormon Battalion Association, Original Battalion Roster: http://www.mormonbattalion.com/Original_Battalion_Roster
• DS Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868 web site: https://history.lds.org/overlandtravel/pioneers/63674758170103191960/sylvester-hulet

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNS2-Z9P : 15 January 2022), Sylvester Hulet, Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm . Notes Information from 1880 US Census.