Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Levi Gifford

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Name Levi Gifford Born 15 Aug 1789 Conway, Hampshire, Massachusetts [1, 2]
Gender Male Died 4 Mar 1860 Moroni, Sanpete, Utah [1, 2]
Person ID I8516 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 12 Aug 2015
Father Noah Gifford, b. Abt 1759, of Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Mother Mary Bowerman, b. 10 Oct 1758, Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts , d. Between 1834 and 1835 (Age 75 years)
Married Aft 5 Jun 1784 Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts [2]
Family ID F4525 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Deborah Wing, b. 5 Apr 1796, d. 15 Mar 1877, Weston, Franklin, Idaho (Age 80 years)
Married 1816 Tioga, Pennsylvania [1]
Children + 1. Priscilla Gifford, b. 3 Mar 1818, Covington, Tioga, Pennsylvania , d. 2 Aug 1876, Weston, Franklin, Idaho
(Age 58 years)
Last Modified 4 Jul 2015 Family ID F3448 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Baptized into the Mormon church in 1831. He baptized Eleazar Miller, who in turn baptized Brigham Young. His brother Alpheus Gifford baptized Heber C. Kimball.
He was a participant in Zion's Camp, 1834.
In 1835, he was ordained a Seventy and called to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy, thus becoming one of the earliest General Authorities of the church.
More about him here.
- Baptized into the Mormon church in 1831. He baptized Eleazar Miller, who in turn baptized Brigham Young. His brother Alpheus Gifford baptized Heber C. Kimball.
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Sources - [S158] Rootsweb tree of The Wing Family of America.
- [S511] Almon E. Daniels and Maclean W. McLean, ed. Anne Borden Harding, "William Gifford of Sandwich, Mass. (d. 1687)." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 128 (1974): 239-261; 129 (1975): 30-44, 221-237, 335-346; 130 (1976): 40-45, 130-141, 284-291; 131 (1977): 51-57, 133-141, 214-220, 294-298; 132 (1978): 211-217, 293-301; 133 (1979): 49-56, 134-140, 211-215, 294-298; 134 (1980): 59-64, 121-134, 237-241, 310-315; 135 (1981): 45-56, 138-147, 307-321; 137 (1983): 137-162; 138 (1984): 203-222.
- [S158] Rootsweb tree of The Wing Family of America.