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Samuel Alexander Beckstead


Birth25 December 1840Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Samuel Alexander Beckstead, Sr (1840-1861), memorial #75079.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Samuel Alexander Beckstead, ID: KWVH-6NF.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Alexander Becksted, folder "Pottawattamie branches, schedules, 1848 February" (#73), image 20, line 20.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Died," 1 May 1861, p. 72, column 3.
Death28 March 1861South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Samuel Alexander Beckstead, Sr (1840-1861), memorial #75079.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Died," 1 May 1861, p. 72, column 3.
BurialMarch 1861Wights Fort Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Samuel Alexander Beckstead, ID: KWVH-6NF.
FatherAlexander Beckstead
MotherCatherine Elinore Lince
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   • Araminta Churberry Allen
Married17 August 1856West Jordan, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
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    Judith Woolstenhulme Hansen, Marriages in Utah Territory, 1850-1884 : from the Deseret News, 1850-1872, and the Elias Smith journals, 1850-1884 (Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States: Utah Genealogical Association, 1998), database, FamilySearch, entry for Samuel A. Bexstead and Araminta Allen (17 August 1856); citing Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, The Deseret News and Elias Smith Journals, "Marriages in Utah Territory 1850-1884 from The Deseret News 1850-1872 and The Elias Smith Journals 1850-1884," p. 20.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Married," 20 August 1856, p. 192, column 3.
          Children:
               Araminta Elizabeth Beckstead
               Samuel Alexander Beckstead
               Elzina Janette Beckstead
               Henry William Beckstead

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• 1840Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
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• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusGreat Salt Lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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Crossing the Plains

• Allen Taylor 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)
       Departure5 Jul 1849
       Arrival10 Oct 1849

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