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Abigail Schaffer



Birth13 September 1786Frederick County, Maryland, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Abigail Shaffer, ID: KWJY-XZR.

    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. 34.

    Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church History Library), entry for Abigail Woolsey, folder "First 100, schedules, 1847 December-1848" (#60), image 13, line 33.

    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. 379-380; FHL microfilm 183374.

Death3 September 1848Sweetwater, US Federal Territory (Now Sweetwater Station, Freemont, Wyoming, United States)
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    Juanita Brooks and Robert Glass Cleland, A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee - 1848-1876 Volume 1 (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1983), p. 75, entry for 3 September 1848.

Burial3 September 1848Sweetwater, US Federal Territory (Now Sweetwater Station, Freemont, Wyoming, United States)
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    Juanita Brooks and Robert Glass Cleland, A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee - 1848-1876 Volume 1 (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1983), p. 75, entry for 3 September 1848.

FatherJohn A. Schaffer
MotherNancy Ann Hopkins

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Joseph Henry Woolsey
MarriedAbout 1802
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Joseph Henry Woolsey and Abigail Schaffer, ID: LLQZ-7CN and ID: KWJY-XZR.

          Children:
               Hyrum Woolsey
               Thomas Woolsey
               Richard Woolsey
               Mary Woolsey
               Elizabeth Woolsey
               Agatha Ann Woolsey
               John Woolsey
               Nancy Woolsey
               Sarah Woolsey
               James Hopkins Woolsey
               Hannah Woolsey
               Rachel Andora Woolsey
               Josiah E. Woolsey
               Emaline Vaughn Woolsey
               William Andrew Woolsey


   • John Doyle Lee Sr
Married3 May 1845Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    John Doyle Lee, John D. Lee journals, 1844 May-1853 November, MS 1253 > Journal, 1844 May-1846 November, image 67/211, p. 60; Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.


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

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• 1840 Population CensusEastern District, Fayette, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

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    Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Data," database, part of "Church History Biographical Database" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

       Departure5 Jun 1848
       Arrival20-24 Sept 1848


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