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John Bills



Birth17 September 1819Mahoning Twp., Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States
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    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. 117, n. 1; citing Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for John Bills, folder "Third 100, schedules, circa 1847 November" (#63), image 5, line 7.

Death19 February 1850San Joaquin Valley, California Territory, United States
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    Howard Egan, Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's (Richmond, UT: Howard R. Egan Estate, 1917), p. 181.

BurialSan Joaquin Valley, California, United States
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    Howard Egan, Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's diary, also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians, their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography, inter-related to his father's (Richmond, UT: Howard R. Egan Estate, 1917), p. 181.

FatherAlanson Bills
MotherElecta Hill

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   • Elizabeth Scott
Married7 January 1834Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for John Bills and Elizabeth Scott, ID: KWJB-TJC and ID: LLMR-TC8.

          Children:
               William Andrew Bills
               John Alanson Bills
               Robert Bills
               Charles Colson Bills
               Franklin Richard Bills
               Samuel Bills


   • Elizabeth Hall
Married6 January 1848Winter Quarters, US Federal Territory (now Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States)
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for John Bills and Elizabeth Hall, ID: KWJB-TJC and ID: KWJ1-CNP.

    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. 695-696; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

          Children:
               Martha Bills
               Thomas Wesley Bills


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• 1840Schuyler County, Illinois, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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• 1840 Population CensusPrecinct 4, Schuyler, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

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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


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