FamilySearch ID: KWJP-WMJ
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Dorothy Maria Ransom

Birth	26 August 1801	Rochester, Rutland, Vermont, United States	Citation(s) Birth Citation(s) 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. 76. 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. 167-168; FHL microfilm 183374.
Death	22 June 1852	Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States	Citation(s) Death Citation(s) "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Dorothy Maria Ransom, ID: KWJP-WMJ.
Burial	June 1852	Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States	Citation(s) Burial Citation(s) "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Dorothy Maria Ransom, ID: KWJP-WMJ.

Father	Stephen Ransom
Mother	Dorothy Cooper

Marriages Label

• Stephen Peabody Mecham

Married

1818

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
"FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Stephen Peabody Mecham and Dolly Dorothy Maria Ranson, ID: L5F9-4ZF and ID: KWJP-WMJ.

          Children:
               Dorothy Maria Mecham
               Sylvia Ameretta Meacham
               Stephen Alonzo Mecham
               Almira Mehitable Mecham
               Erastus Darwin Mecham
               Charles Lafayette Meacham
               George Washington Meacham
               Henry Pierpont Meacham
               Roswell Henry Hopkins Mecham
               Hyrum Meacham
               Harriet Meacham
               Hyrum S Meacham

• John Milton Bernhisel

Married

20 January 1846

Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
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. 167-168; FHL microfilm 183374.

Residences Label

• 1840	Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States
• 1845	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850	Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States

Death & Burial Records Label

• Grave Marker

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Census Records Label

• 1840 Population Census	Springfield Township, Sangamon, Illinois	Extract	Image
• 1850 Population Census	the District No 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa	Extract	Image	1850 Population Census Citation(s) SOURCE GOES HERE

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Dorothy Maria Ransom