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Polly Zerviah Kelsey



Birth14 September 1808Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
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    Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co.), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Polly Zeriah Kelcey (14 September 1808); citing Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, image 4148; FHL microfilm 2929.

    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. 7.

    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. 349-350, FHL microfilm 183374.

Death27 June 1850US Federal Territory
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    1850 U.S. Census, mortality schedule (Washington DC: National Archives, 1971), Utah County, Utah Territory, p. 1 (front).

    Hamblin Jacob, Diary of Jacob Hamblin, 1850 June-1854 April (https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/52f9d169-08aa-4876-becd-57da40785820/a0b53d61-398c-4103-a979-71263c109a9e?view=browse, July 07,2021), 27 June 1850.

    The Frontier Guardian (Kanesville, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States: Orson Hyde; Jacob Dawson; A.C. Ford, 1849-1853), "From the Valley," 8 January 1851, p. 2, column 3.

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FatherJonathan Kelsey
MotherPolly Parmelee

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   • Aaron Johnson
Married13 September 1827New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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    State of Connecticut, Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997 (Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), database with images, FamilySearch, entry for Aaron Johnson and Zeruah Kelsey (13 September 1827); citing New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, "Vital records of New Haven, 1649-1850 Pt. 1," p. 508; FHL microfilm 599303, Item 3.

          Children:
               Willis Kelsey Johnson
               Marilla Lucretia Johnson
               Mary Ann Johnson
               Emma Marie Johnson


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• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1842Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

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• Grave MarkerView Source

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• 1840 Population CensusHancock County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Mortality CensusUtah County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

Aaron Johnson 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)

       Departureabout 8 Jun 1850
       Arrival12 Sept 1850


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