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===Mormon Migration===
===Mormon Migration===
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In [[1842]], Bateman's parents had joined the growing Mormon religion, and were making plans to relocate to [[Nauvoo, Illinois]].  Shortly after Bateman's birth, they abandoned their farm in Venice, and began to make their way to [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]].  By the time they got to Nauvoo in 1844, Joseph Smith had been killed, and violence against the Mormons was escalating.  The family spend a little over two years in Nauvoo before starting across the plains on June 17, 1847 in the Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company.  They spent the winter of 1847 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. After leaving Winter Quarters, they headed to Mosquito Creek, Iowa and on to Weston, Missouri where Bateman's father John and two of his siblings died.  In April 1851, shortly after John's death, Clarissa and the remaining children finally left for Salt Lake City, arriving there on June 27, 1851.
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In [[1842]], Bateman's parents had joined the growing Mormon religion, and were making plans to relocate to [[Nauvoo, Illinois]].  Shortly after Bateman's birth, they abandoned their farm in Venice, and began to make their way to [[Nauvoo, Illinois|Nauvoo]].  By the time they got to Nauvoo in 1844, Joseph Smith had been killed, and violence against the Mormons was escalating.  The family spent a little over two years in Nauvoo before starting across the plains on June 17, 1847 in the Daniel Spencer/Ira Eldredge Company.  They spent the winter of 1847 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. After leaving Winter Quarters, they headed to Mosquito Creek, Iowa and on to Weston, Missouri where Bateman's father John and two of his siblings died.  In April 1851, shortly after John's death, Clarissa and the remaining children finally left for Salt Lake City, arriving there on June 27, 1851.
===Civil War===  
===Civil War===  

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