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Ira Elies Merrill



Birth21 April 1835Alden, Erie, New York, United States
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    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Ira Elies Merrill, ID: KWJ8-8BM.

    Lyman De Platt, Early Mormon Record Series: Nauvoo, 1839-1846, Vol. 30 pg 730.

Death23 July 1860Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
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    Lyman De Platt, Early Mormon Record Series: Nauvoo, 1839-1846, Vol. 30 pg 730.

    Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States: Digitized by: University of Utah, 1877), "Late Indian Murders in Cache," 1 August 1860, p. 173, column 3.

BurialJuly 1860Smithfield, Cache, Utah Territory, United States
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    Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Ira Elias Merrill (1835-1860), memorial #180958.

    "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Ira Elias Merrill, ID: KWJ8-8BM.

FatherAustin Shepherd Merrill
MotherLaura Wilder Harris

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   • Lucinda Jane Olmstead
Married23 February 1856Union Fort, 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), p. 18.

          Children:
               Lucinda Jane Merrill
               Ira William Merrill
               Margaret Elisa Merrill


   • Ira Elies Merrill
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   • Ira Elies Merrill
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• 1840Plainfield, Will, Illinois, United States
• 1843Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, United States
• 1860Cache County, Utah Territory, United States

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• 1840 Population CensusPlainfield Precinct, Will, IllinoisExtractImage
• 1850 Population CensusGreat Salt lake County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage
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• 1860 Population CensusCache County, Utah TerritoryExtractImage

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Crossing the Plains

Brigham Young 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 Jun 1848
       Arrival20-24 Sept 1848


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