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Edwin Dilworth Woolley


Birth28 June 1807West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Sr (1807-1881), memorial #28376142.

    Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Management and Archives), database with images, FamilySearch, Edwin D Woolley, 14 October 1881; citing Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States, certificate 10474; Salt Lake County Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), p. 44, FHL microfilm 1033997.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Edwin D Woolley Sr, folder "Edward Hunter's 100, schedules, circa 1847 February" (#17), image 1, line 18.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 553-554, FHL microfil 183374.
Death14 October 1881Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Sr (1807-1881), memorial #28376142.

    Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Management and Archives), database with images, FamilySearch, Edwin D Woolley, 14 October 1881; citing Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States, certificate 10474; Salt Lake County Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Burial16 October 1881Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Sr (1807-1881), memorial #28376142.

    Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Management and Archives), database with images, FamilySearch, Edwin D Woolley, 14 October 1881; citing Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States, certificate 10474; Salt Lake County Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.
FatherJohn Woolley
MotherRachel Dilworth
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   • Mary Wickersham
Married24 March 1831East Rochester, Columbiana, Ohio, United States
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    Ohio County Clerks, Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016 (Ohio: County courthouses), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Edwin D Wooley and Mary Wichersham, 24 March 1831; citing Columbiana County, Ohio, County Courthouses, "Marriage records 1818-1833 vol 2," p. 420; FHL microfilm 9277.
          Children:
               John Wickersham Woolley
               Franklin Benjamin Woolley Sr.
               Rachel Emma Woolley
               Samuel Wickersham Woolley
               Henrietta Woolley
               Edwin Dilworth Woolley Jr
               Mary Louisa Woolley
               Marcellus Simmons Woolley


   • Ellen Wilding
Married28 December 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Maurine Carr Ward, A Partial List of Church Members Living in Nauvoo, p. 65.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 608; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 343.
          Children:
               Sarah Woolley
               Joseph Wilding Woolley
               Hyrum Smith Woolley
               Edwin Thomas Woolley
               Mary Ellen Woolley


   • Louisa Chapin Gordon
Married6 February 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 608; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 553-554, FHL microfilm 183374.
          Children:
               Edwin Gordon Woolley


   • Mary Ann Olpin
Married10 November 1850Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Maurine Carr Ward, A Partial List of Church Members Living in Nauvoo, p. 65.

    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sealings and adoptions of the living, 1846-1857; index, 1846-1857 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958), p. 781-782, FHL microfilm 183374.
          Children:
               Henry Alberto Woolley
               Orson Olpin Woolley
               Amelia Woolley
               Ruth Woolley
               Sarah Ann Woolley
               Olive Woolley
               William Edgar Woolley
               Fannie Woolley
               George Edwin Woolley
               Carlos Alfred Woolley
               Clarence Herbert Woolley


   • Elizabeth Marshall
Married11 February 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Edwin Dilworth Woolley and Elizabeth Ann Marshall, ID: KWN2-GPW and ID: KWJD-fQW.
          Children:
               Oceola B. Jackman

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• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
• 1860Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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• 1840 Population CensusHancock County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population Census13th Ward Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population Census13 Ward Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population Census13th Ward Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1880 Population CensusSalt Lake City, 13th Ward, Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Brigham Young CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure5 Jun 1848
       Arrival20-24 Sept 1848
• Edward Hunter CompanyView Source
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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
       Departure29 Jun 1850
       Arrival13 Oct 1850

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