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Webb, Edwin Densmore

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Ca. 1813

1850 U.S. Census, Indian Lands, Marquette Co., WI, 148[B]; “Webb, Edwin Densmore,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 45:146.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Black, Susan Easton, comp. Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1989. Also available as “Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” LDS Family History Suite: LDS Vital Records Library, CD-ROM ([Provo], UT: Infobases, Inc., 1996).

–after 1902.

“Webb, Edwin G.,” California, Voter Registrations, 1900–1968, Sacramento Co., 1900–1910, p. 380, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1249/images/sacramentocounty_1-0380?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=2782241372&rcstate=sacramentocounty_1-0380%3A322%2C2999%2C464%2C3037%3B503%2C2996%2C659%2C3036 (accessed 15 May 2012).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Ancestry.com. http://ancestry.com.

Blacksmith, carpenter.

Givens, In Old Nauvoo, 95; Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 130; 1850 U.S. Census, Indian Lands, Marquette Co., WI, 148[B]; 1880 U.S. Census, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA, 225C.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Givens, George W. In Old Nauvoo: Everyday Life in the City of Joseph. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1990.

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born at Hanover, Chautauque Co., New York.

“Webb, Edwin Densmore,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 45:146.

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Son of James Webb and Hannah Griswold.

“Webb, Edwin Densmore,” in Black, Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848, 45:146.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, likely 1834.

Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Nauvoo, 130.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846: Historic Photographs and Guide. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1990.

Moved to Kirtland, Geauga Co., Ohio, before Dec. 1835.

Geauga Co., OH, Probate Court, Marriage Records, 1806–1920, vol. C, p. 141, microfilm 873,461, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Married first Eliza Ann McWethy (McWithey), 13 Dec. 1835, at Kirtland.

Geauga Co., OH, Probate Court, Marriage Records, 1806–1920, vol. C, p. 141, microfilm 873,461, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1835.

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Member of the Seventy in Kirtland, 1836.

Cook and Backman, Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 104; Jessee, Personal Writings, 699.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Cook, Lyndon W., and Milton V. Backman Jr., eds. Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 1836–1841. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1985.

Jessee, Dean C., ed. and comp. The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2002.

Stockholder in Kirtland Safety Society.

Kirtland Safety Society Stock Ledger, Chicago Historical Society.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Kirtland Safety Society. Stock Ledger, 1836–1837. Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum. Copy at CHL.

Served mission to Illinois, 1839.

Cook and Backman, Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 104.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Cook, Lyndon W., and Milton V. Backman Jr., eds. Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 1836–1841. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1985.

Moved to Rochester, Peoria Co., Illinois, by June 1840.

1840 U.S. Census, Rochester Precinct, Peoria Co., IL, 39.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, by 1842; to Racine, Racine Co., Wisconsin Territory, 1842; to Nauvoo, 1843; and to Marquette Co., Wisconsin, by June 1850.

Platt, Nauvoo, 22; Cook and Backman, Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 104; “Webb, Edwin Densmore,” born 1813, submitted by Glena T. Knight, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family Group Records Collection; Archives Section, 1942–1969, microfilm 1,275,356, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; Edwin D. Webb, “Let Us Do as We Ought,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 9 Aug. 1843, [3]; 1850 U.S. Census, Indian Lands, Marquette Co., WI, 148[B].

Comprehensive Works Cited

Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.

Cook, Lyndon W., and Milton V. Backman Jr., eds. Kirtland Elders’ Quorum Record, 1836–1841. Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 1985.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Migrated to Salt Lake Valley, 1853.

“Webb, Edwin Densmore,” Church History Biographical Database, https://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/individual/edwin-densmore-webb-1813?lang=eng (accessed 9 Sept. 2022).

Comprehensive Works Cited

Pioneer Database, 1847–1868. Compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel.

Moved to Fillmore, Millard Co., Utah Territory, by June 1860.

1860 U.S. Census, Fillmore, Millard Co., Utah Territory, 725.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Married second Jane H., by 1870.

1870 U.S. Census, Sacramento Ward 3, Sacramento Co., CA, 309[A]; 1880 U.S. Census, Sacramento, Sacramento Co., CA, 225C.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Moved to Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California, by June 1870.

1870 U.S. Census, Sacramento Ward 3, Sacramento Co., CA, 309[A].

Comprehensive Works Cited

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Registered voter in Sacramento, 1882–1902.

Sacramento Co., CA, Great Registers, 1866–1901, vol. 1882, p. 106, microfilm 978,921, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; “Webb, Edwin G.,” California, Voter Registrations, 1900–1968, Sacramento Co., 1900–1910, p. 380, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1249/images/sacramentocounty_1-0380?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=2782241372&rcstate=sacramentocounty_1-0380%3A322%2C2999%2C464%2C3037%3B503%2C2996%2C659%2C3036 (accessed 15 May 2012).

Comprehensive Works Cited

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Ancestry.com. http://ancestry.com.

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