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Samuel C Bent


Birth19 July 1778Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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     Town Clerk Offices, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 (Massachusetts: Town Clerk Offices), images, FamilySearch.org , Barre, Worcester, Vermont, "Births, Marriages, Deaths 1749-1850," image 15; citing Barre Vital Records to 1850, p. 18, FHL microfilm 2229477.
Death16 August 1846Garden Grove, Decatur, Iowa Territory, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Samuel Bent (1778-1846), memorial #28843081.

    Andrew Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biogrpahical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, UT: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), Vol. 1, p. 367.
BurialGarden Grove, Decatur, Iowa, United States
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     Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Samuel Bent (1778-1846), memorial #28843081.
FatherJoel Bent
MotherMarcy Mason
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   • Mary Kilburn
Married8 February 1805Barre, Worchester, Massachusetts, United States
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    FamilySearch, Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), index, FamilySearch.org, entry for Samuel Bent and Mary Kilburn (8 Feb 1805).
          Children:
               William Erving Bent
               Horatio Gates Bent
               Mary Kilburn Bent
               Joseph Kilburn Bent


   • Anna Stout
Married1837Missouri, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Samuel C Bent and Anna Stout, ID: LHVW-W3J and ID: KPHW-FTX.

   • Lettice Hawkins
MarriedSeptember 1837
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    Maurine Carr Ward, Mormon Historical Studies (: Mormon Historical Studies, 2002), Vol. 3, p. 100.

    George D. Smith, Nauvoo Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 577.

    Lyndon W. Cook, The revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: a historical and biographical commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1985), p. 289.

   • Cynthia Noble
Married14 January 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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    Luman Andros Shurtliff, Journal of Luman Andros Shurtliff (S.l.: s.n., 19--), p. 66.

    Devery Scott Anderson, The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2005), p. 415; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.
          Children:
               Melissa Bent
               Xxxm Bent


   • Maria Thompson
Married14 January 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), p. 415; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Phoebe Palmer
Married14 January 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), p. 415; citing "Book of Sealings (Living)--Wives to Husbands".

   • Asenath Slafter
Married28 January 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), p. 515; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Lovina Clearwater
Married28 January 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), p. 515, n. 46; citing “Book of Proxey—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Elizabeth Burgess
Married28 January 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), p. 515; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Anna Hartshorn
Married28 January 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), p. 515; citing “Book of Sealings (Living)—Wives to Husbands”.

   • Polly Miller
Married30 January 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), p. 535 n.55; citing “Book of Anointings—Wives to Husbands”.

    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. 181.

   • Naomi Harris
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    International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude (Salt Lake City: International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1998), p.237.
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• 1840Hancock County, Illinois, United States
• 1846Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
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BaptismJanuary 1833Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan Territory, United States
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     Lyndon W. Cook, The revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: a historical and biographical commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 1985), p. 284.
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• 1840 Population CensusHancock County, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1842 Population CensusNauvoo, Hancock, IllinoisExtractImage

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