Elijah Thomas (1815-1906)

Mormon Battalion
Veteran of Company C of Mormon Battalion. Apparently made it all the way to California and got married in San Francisco.

1859 Mormon War
A Veteran of the 1859 Mormon War against Johnson's Army.

1861 Wagon Train
Greene with his family were participants in the David Cannon 1861 Pioneer Company, a 79 day wagon train traveling from Florence (now Omaha, Nebraska) to Salt Lake City in the early summer. It was the first of 12 such wagon trains of the year. It was a large train of 68 wagons and nearly 300 passengers led by a young 23-year old missionary returning home from England, Elder David H Cannon. Several diary/biographical accounts exist.

The Almira Jane Hall journal describes evenings on the wagon train of Elijah telling campfire stories about the Mormon Battalion and Johnson's Army