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Rachel Hunter



Birth13 October 1810South Carolina, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Rachel Hunter Davis (1810-1882), memorial #111777781.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 266, entry 3; citing Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846.

    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. 154, FHL microfilm 183374.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Died," 23 August 1882, p. 16, column 2.

Death5 August 1882Salem, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Rachel Hunter Davis (1810-1882), memorial #111777781.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Died," 23 August 1882, p. 16, column 2.

Burial7 August 1882Salem City Cemetery, Salem, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Rachel Hunter Davis (1810-1882), memorial #111777781.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Rachel Hunter, ID: LCQV-9MG.

FatherJames M. Hunter
MotherRachel Webber

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   • Henry Leland J Davis
Married24 November 1825Knox County, Tennessee, United States
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    Various County Clerk Offices, Tennessee, County Marriages 1790-1950 (Nashville: Tennessee State Library and Archives), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Davis and Rachel Hunter (24 Nov 1825); citing Knox County, Tennessee, County Court Clerk, “Marriage records, v. 1-5 1792-1875 [includes marriage bond 1793 and 1798 than marriage license and returns for 1800-1875]," image 55, FHL microfilm 4538916.

    Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950, database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Henry Davis and Rachel Hunter (24 Nov 1825); citing Knox County, Tennessee, County Court Clerk, “Licenses, bonds 1823-1827," images 940-943, FHL microfilm 1205067.

          Children:
               Larkin Davis
               George Preston Davis
               James Jordan Davis
               Elizabeth Jane Davis
               Charles Washington Davis
               William Bradford Davis
               Levi Washington Davis
               Robert Houston Davis
               Joseph Webster Davis
               Julius Moses Davis
               Mary Jane Davis
               Henry Orson Davis


   • Benjamin Franklin Stewart
Married7 September 1850Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Benjamin Franklin Stewart and Rachel Hunter, ID: KWJ8-J2M and ID: LLQZ-HJF.

    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. 769, FHL microfilm #183373.

          Children:
               Lucinda Stewart


   • Samuel Jefferson Adair
Married9 May 1853Provo, Utah, 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. 154, FHL microfilm 183374.


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• 1840Overton County, Tennessee, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Utah County, Utah Territory, United States
• 1860Springville, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
• 1870Pondtown, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
• 1882Salem, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

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• 1840 Population CensusOverton County, TennesseeExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusUtah County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusSpringville, Utah, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population CensusPondtown, Utah, 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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