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Orson Spencer


Birth14 March 1802West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
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     "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Orson Spencer, ID: KWJT-J6R.

    Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute), database with image, Ancestry entry for Orson Spencer (13 May 1802); citing West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Town Recorder, "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988".
Death15 October 1855St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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     Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), “News from Elders,” 5 December 1855, p. 5, column 4.
BurialOctober 1855Salt Lake City Cemetery, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Orson Spencer (1802–1855), memorial #21075999.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Orson Spencer, ID: KWJT-J6R.
FatherDaniel Spencer
MotherChloe Wilson
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   • Catherine Cannon Curtis
Married13 April 1830Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
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    Maurine Carr Ward, Mormon Historical Studies (: Mormon Historical Studies, 2002), vol. 3, no. 1, p. 184.
          Children:
               Catherine Read Spencer
               Ellen Curtis Spencer
               Aurelia Read Spencer
               Catherine Curtis Spencer
               Howard Orson Spencer
               George Boardman Spencer
               Lucy Curtis Spencer
               Chloe Spencer


   • Eliza Ann Dibble
Married15 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Orson Spencer and Eliza Ann Dibble, ID: KWJT-J6R and ID: KWJ8-6XT.

   • Martha Knight
MarriedApril 1847Somerset County, England, United Kingdom
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Orson Spencer and Martha Knight, ID: KWJT-J6R and ID: L7JT-V2K.
          Children:
               Martha Emma Spencer
               Albert James Spencer
               William Collinson Spencer
               June Knight Spencer


   • Margaret Miller
Married13 October 1849Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Orson Spencer and Margaret Miller, ID: KWJT-J6R and ID: KWJ8-SS7.

   • Mary Currie Hill
Married12 September 1852Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 60-61, FHL microfilm 183393.

   • Mary Jane Burn Davis
Married16 February 1852Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Endowment House (LDS Church), Sealings of couples, living and by proxy, 1851-1889 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1958, 1978), p. 24-25, FHL microfilm 183393.
          Children:
               Luna Hannah Spencer

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• 1840Middlefield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
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• 1840 Population CensusMiddlefield, Hampshire, MassachusettsExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, 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
• Orson Spencer/Joel J. Terrell 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)
       Departurelate Jul 1853
       Arrivalearly Oct 1853

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