Samuel Lewis History
Early Church Membership Records
Samuel Lewis was a Private in Company "C" of the Mormon Battalion. Samuel was a member of the Nauvoo, Illinois 2nd ward. He came with the Pioneers from Nauvoo to Mount Pisgah in 1846 and enlisted in the Battalion at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, July 16, 1846. After serving a year, he was discharged at Los Angeles, July 16, 1847, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in December, 1847. He became a resident of Great Salt Lake City and in the spring of 1848 went with the first mail to President Young after this leader left the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He worked on the Nauvoo Temple until the walls were completed, on the St. George Temple about 18 months, on the Salt Lake Temple 14 months, and on the Manti Temple four months, being a stone cutter by trade. He went to Parowan in 1851 and acted as first counselor to his father, Bishop Tarlton Lewis, in Parowan. He went to Arizona in 1880 and was one of the first settlers in Pima. He helped to build John W. Young's factory at Moan Coppy, located at Thatcher, Arizona, about 1888 or 1889.