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Mary Polly Bell



Birth5 December 1786Rowan, Rowan, North Carolina, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Mary Bennett (1786-1856), Memorial #25790617.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Mary Polly Bell, ID: KWVP-2FG.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 595; citing “General Record of the Seventies. Book B”.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Mary Weeks, folder "First 100, schedules, 1847 December-1848" (#60), image 7, line 27.

Death12 April 1856Cedar Valley, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Mary Bennett (1786-1856), Memorial #25790617.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Mary Polly Bell, ID: KWVP-2FG.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), April 30 1856, p. 8, column 4, "Died".

BurialApril 1856Cedar Fort Cemetery, Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Mary Bennett (1786-1856), Memorial #25790617.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Mary Polly Bell, ID: KWVP-2FG.

FatherWilliam Bell
MotherSarah McGuire

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Richard Bennett
Married25 February 1811Sumner County, Tennessee, United States
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    Tennessee County Clerks, Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 (Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Library and Archives), Database, FamilySearch.org, accessed 14 Oct 2014, entry for Polly Bell and Richard Bennett (25 Feb 1811); citing "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," Ancestry.com, p. 45, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, State Library and Archives, Nashville..

          Children:
               Richard Bennett
               Mariah Bennett
               Sarah Jane Bennett
               William Bell Bennett
               Hiram Bennett
               Mary Catherine Bennett
               Elizabeth Ann Bennett
               Elizabeth Ann Bennett
               Louisa I. Bennett
               Marinda Bennett
               Melissa Bennett
               Eli Bennett Sr


   • Allen Weeks
Married7 February 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), Allen and Mary were sealed in the Nauvoo Temple on 7 Feb 1846. (Source: The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845‐1846, p. 619; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”)..


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• 1840Shelby County, Illinois, United States
• 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
• 1856Cedar Valley, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

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• 1840 Population CensusShelby County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population Censusthe District No 21, Pottawattamie, IowaExtractImage
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• 1851 Iowa CensusPottawattamie County, IowaExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

Allen Weeks 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)

       Departure13 Jul 1852
       Arrival12 Oct 1852


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