Alexander Kelley

1793 - 1880  (86 years)

• Name	Alexander Kelley  [1, 2]
  Birth	15 Jul 1793	Highgate Centre, Franklin, Vermont   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	12 Feb 1880	Albion, Cassia, Idaho   [4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I40568	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	William Kelley
  Mother	Lydia Frasier,   b. Abt 1755, Vermont
  Marriage	Bef 1790  [3]
  Family ID	F23776	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Holmes Davis,   b. 28 Jan 1790, Washington, Berkshire, Massachusetts d. 1867, Ogden, Weber, Utah (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	19 Dec 1815	Barnet, Caledonia, Vermont   [3, 7, 8]
  Notes	Officiated by "David Goodwillie, Min."
  Children	+ 1. Sophronia Kelly,   b. 15 Jul 1826, Potton, Richelieu, Quebec d. 24 Jan 1907, Franklin, Franklin, Idaho (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F23767	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  He emigrated from Vermont to Lower Canada (i.e., Quebec) in 1825. He and his family were baptized into the Mormon church in the summer of 1837, and shortly afterward they emigrated to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, where they stayed only a short time before being driven out by anti-Mormon mobs. This was the period during which Missouri governor Boggs issued the executive order directing that Mormons either be driven from the state or "exterminated", a true high point in the long history of American murderousness toward its fellow citizens. By 1841 they were in Nauvoo, Illinois, where they remained until the uprisings that killed Joseph Smith and ejected much of the Mormon population. Ultimately they crossed the plains with the Heber C. Kimball Company from 7 Jun 1848 until their arrival at Salt Lake on 24 Sep of that year.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7506] Find a Grave page for Sophronia Kelly. [S7510] The Stowell Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Samuel Stowell of Hingham, Mass. by William Henry Harrison Stowell. Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1922. [S7511] Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840-1845, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, Volume 4: K-O, ed. Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black. Provo, Utah: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002. [S3875] Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868, on familysearch.org., date only. [S7512] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Biographical Database. [S7513] "Alexander Kelly", Deseret News, 3 Mar 1880. [S3843] Vermont vital records, 1760-1954, on familysearch.org. [S7512] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Biographical Database., date only.