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Almira Mehitable Mecham



Birth13 May 1824Hopkinton, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Almira Mehitable Mecham Packard (1824-1898), memorial #34721420.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 116, entry 12; citing Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846.

    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. 549-550.

Death2 October 1898San Bernardino County, California, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Almira Mehitable Mecham Packard (1824-1898), memorial #34721420.

    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California: Times-Mirror Co., 1886), "San Bernardino Brevities," 5 October 1898, p. 13, column 4.

    California Department of Public Health, California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, database with images, Ancestry.com, Almira M. Packard, 2 October 1898, citing San Bernardino County, California, United States, p. 261.

BurialOctober 1898Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Almira Mehitable Mecham Packard (1824-1898), memorial #34721420.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Almira Mehitable Meacham, ID: KWV3-QG8.

FatherStephen Peabody Mecham
MotherDorothy Maria Ransom

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   • Andrew Warren Palmer
Married4 June 1840Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
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    County offices, Illinois, Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940, database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Anam W Palmer and Almira Mecham (4 June 1840); citing Sangamon County, Illinois, "Marriage licenses, 17 Apr. 1839 - 25 Oct. 1842," image 399; FHL microfilm 7747486.

          Children:
               Almon Babbit Palmer
               Warren Palmer


   • Edwin Whiting
Married3 January 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 630.

          Children:
               Edward Lucian Whiting
               Ellen Emerett Whiting
               Catherine Emeline Whiting
               Cornelia Dolly Whiting
               Elisha Franklin Whiting
               Edwin Lafayette Whiting
               Hyrum Whiting
               Sylvia Almira Whiting


   • Henry Packard
Married24 July 1863Springville, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Henry Packard and Almira Mehitable Mecham, ID: KWVH-TVD and ID: KWV3-QG8.

          Children:
               Sophia Olive Packard


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• 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Manti, Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States
• 1870Springville, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

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• 1850 Population CensusManti, Sanpete, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusManti City, Sanpete, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1870 Population CensusSpringville, Utah, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
• 1880 Population CensusSpringville City and Precinct, Utah, Utah TerritoryExtractImage

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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)

       Departure15 Jul 1849
       Arrival25-29 Oct 1849


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