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William Farrington Cahoon



Birth7 November 1813Harpersfield, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States
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    Stella Cahoon Shurtleff, Reynolds Cahoon and his stalwart sons: Utah pioneers (Salt Lake City, UT: Paragon Press, 1960), p. 79.

    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), William F. Cahoon, 17 December 1845.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 66; citing the Nauvoo diary of William Clayton, kept for Heber C. Kimball.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for William F. Cahoon, folder "Second 100, schedules, 1848" (#62), image 1, line 32.

Death6 April 1893Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), 15 April 1893, p. 544..

    Utah Department of Heritage and Arts, Utah State Burial Index (: Utah Division of State History), William F. Cahoon, 1893.

Burial9 April 1893Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946, Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), William F. Cahoon, 1893.

FatherReynolds Cahoon
MotherThirza Stiles

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   • Nancy Miranda Gibbs
Married17 January 1836Kirtland, Geauga, Ohio, United States
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    Ohio County Clerks, Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016 (Ohio: County courthouses), .

          Children:
               Mary Annie Cahoon
               Nancy Ermina Cahoon
               Lerona Eliza Cahoon
               John Farrington Cahoon
               Sarah Prudence Ermina Cahoon
               Vilate Thirza Cahoon
               William Marion Cahoon
               Daniel Coyton Cahoon
               Joseph Mahonner Cahoon
               Joseph Mahonri Cahoon
               Henry Reynolds Cahoon Sr
               Stephen Tiffany Cahoon
               Andrew Carlos Cahoon


   • Mary Wilson Dugdale
Married23 September 1845Nauvoo, 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. 515.

    Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), p. 48.

          Children:
               James Cordon Casson Cahoon
               Samuel Casson Cahoon
               Mary Ellen Casson Cahoon
               George Edward Casson Cahoon


   • Elvina Marshall Jones
Married12 June 1871Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Farrington Cahoon and Elvina Marshall Jones, ID: KWVC-SXG and ID: LK5J-LV6.


   • Oleana Olsen
Married28 February 1878Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Farrington Cahoon and Oleana Olsen, ID: KWVC-SXG and ID:KL63-G1J.


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• 1836Geauga County, Ohio, United States
• 1840Lee County, Iowa Territory, United States
• 1843Nauvoo, 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 CensusTownship 66, Lee, Iowa TerritoryExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population Census12th Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population Census12th Ward Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1880 Population Census12th Ward Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah TerritoryExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

Samuel Gully/Orson Spencer 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)

       Departure28 May 1849
       Arrival22-25 Sept 1849


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