Did you ever hear what happened to Klingensmith??
Didn’t think so, nobody else has either.
Some say he moved to Nevada....basically disappeared of the face of the earth.
But I know? Seven, that is a clue to some of the information my mother will not allow to see the light of day....but when she passes......
In 1857, the Tenth Regiment or Iron Military District was composed of four battalions, nine compa-nies and approximately forty-five platoons. Klingensmith was a private in one of the platoons in CompanyD of the Second Battalion, Cedar City. Philip Klingensmith (1815-1881 or later) was born in westernPennsylvania of German and Scots-Irish heritage. He moved west to Ohio, then Indiana, where he joinedthe Mormon church. Following the arc of most Mormons, he moved to western Illinois, then to UtahTerritory. In the 1850s Klingensmith settled in Cedar City, worked as a blacksmith and served as bishop. Inthe early 1860s Klingensmith was disillusioned and moved to Nevada. He rarely returned to Utah. In1871, he prepared an affidavit about the massacre. He was among nine militiamen named in the 1874murder indictment. In 1875, following a plea bargain he turned state’s evidence and testified in the Leetrial. Later, he reportedly moved to Arizona, then to Sonora, Mexico.The sources disagree as to his death,some holding that he died violently in 1881; others, that he died of natural causes some time later.