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Louisa Chapin Gordon



Birth28 February 1820Williamson, Ontario, New York, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Louisa Chapin Gordon (1820-1849), memorial #28603743.

    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.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 128; citing the Nauvoo diary of William Clayton, kept for Heber C. Kimball.

    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.

Death29 April 1849Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States
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    Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT: G. Q. Cannon & Sons Company, 1892), p. 284.

    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Louisa Chapin Gordon (1820-1849), memorial #28603743.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Louisa Chapin Gordon, ID: LBK2-ZYS.

Burial31 March 1859Salt Lake City Cemetery, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Louisa Chapin Gordon, ID: LBK2-ZYS.

FatherConrad Gordon
MotherJulia Ann Searle

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   • David Lorin Rising
Married4 July 1838Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entries for David Lorin Rising, ID L7FY-9ZV, and Louisa Chapin Gordon, ID KWJD-NM7.

    State of Connecticut, Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997 (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for David L. Rising and Loisa C. Gordon, 4 July 1838; citing Connecticut, United States, Charles Hale, "Hale Collection," image 6906; FHL microfilm 3306.

          Children:
               Samuel Lorin Rising
               Mary Louisa Rising


   • Edwin Dilworth Woolley
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


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• 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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