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William Martin Ford Jr


Birth17 October 1820Harmony, Chautauqua, New York, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for William Martin Ford Jr. (1820-1860), memorial #16226959.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Martin Ford Jr, ID: LZDM-PF1.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 285.
Death4 August 1860Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Martin Ford Jr, ID: LZDM-PF1.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Died," 12 September 1860, p. 8, column 3.
BurialAugust 1860Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Martin Ford Jr., ID: LZDM-PF1.
FatherWilliam Martin Ford
MotherHannah Lucile Mayo
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   • Delana Durfee
Married3 August 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    County offices, Illinois, Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, database with images, FamilySearch, entry for William Ford Jr and Delany Dudley (3 August 1845); citing Hancock County, Illinois, “Hancock Co, Illinois Marriages 1829-1849," image 143, FHL microfilm 229486.
          Children:
               Joseph Lewis Ford
               Sarah Ann Ford


   • Elizabeth Lucina Mecham
Married20 March 1853Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Martin Ford Jr and Elizabeth Lucina Mecham, ID: LZDM-PF1 and ID: K2QX-845.

   • Mary Jane Marsh
Married5 March 1857Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for William Martin Ford and Mary Jane Marsh, ID: LZDM-PF1 and ID: KWJ8-WK2.
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• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1850Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
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• 1840 Population CensusHancock County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population Censusthe District No 21, Pottawattamie, IowaExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Company Unknown (1851)View 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)
       Departure1851
       Arrival1851

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