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Abigail Blodgett[1, 2, 3, 4]

Female 1811 - 1852  (41 years)


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  • Name Abigail Blodgett 
    Born 26 Mar 1811  Tynsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7
    Gender Female 
    Died 20 Jul 1852  Sweetwater, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 7, 8, 9
    Buried 21 Jul 1852  Sweetwater, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 10
    Person ID I5163  Main Tree
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2009 

    Father Thaddeus Blodgett,   b. 8 Jun 1767, Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1847, Tynsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Mrs. Hannah Marshall,   b. 8 Dec 1771,   d. 6 Jan 1844, Tynsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Married 23 Sep 1789  Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F2219  Group Sheet

    Family 1 Daniel Mark Burbank, Sr,   b. 3 Dec 1814, Delhi, Delaware, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jan 1894, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 3 Aug 1839  Naples, Scott, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 11, 12, 13
    Children 
     1. Joseph Smith Burbank,   b. 13 Jul 1842, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1848  (Age 5 years)
     2. Mary Lydia Burbank,   b. 30 Jan 1844, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jun 1928, Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
    +3. Daniel Mark Burbank, Jr.,   b. 10 Jun 1846, Farmington, Van Buren, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Feb 1931, Bennington, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
    +4. Abigail Burbank,   b. 14 Aug 1848, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1935, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     5. Laura Burbank,   b. 4 May 1850, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Apr 1922, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
    Family ID F2106  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Elijah H King,   b. Of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 6 Sep 1830  Tynsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    Family ID F2218  Group Sheet

  • Documents
    Map of baptisms for our ancestors
    Map of baptisms for our ancestors
    Map of baptisms for our ancestors

  • Notes 
    • ~Sealing: Abigail's history gives date of endowment of 16 Jan, and Sealing the next day: "Abigail and Daniel were among those who were privileged to receive their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple , which they did 16 January 1846, and on the following day were sealed to each other for time and all eternity."

      ~Web_Links: History http://www.rawlins.org/histories/html/burbank_abigail.html

      BURIAL: Beside the Platte River near Sweet Water Nebraska.

      DEATH: Beside the Platte River near Sweet Water Nebraska.

      ~Sealing: Abigail's history gives date of endowment of 16 Jan, and Sealing the next day: "Abigail and Daniel were among those who were privileged to receive their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple , which they did 16 January 1846, and on the following day were sealed to each other for time and all eternity."

      ~Web_Links: History http://www.rawlins.org/histories/html/burbank_abigail.html

      BURIAL: Beside the Platte River near Sweet Water Nebraska.

  • Sources 
    1. [S28] International Genealogical Index (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1980, 1997, data as of February 1997), IGI Reference 8506530-11 (See Husbands notes).

    2. [S1] Ancestral File (TM); FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998), 1BZV-NQ.

    3. [S40] Family Records: Rawlins, Lyle, Lyle Rawlins.

    4. [S79] Excerpt from Perry Fitgerald, May 1998 -- scanned and placed on rawlins.org web site, August , 1998., Maud B. Allen, (January 1962), Nothing is known of her childhood days only that she was the 12th child of a family of 15..

    5. [S302] Following is the life story of Daniel Mark Burbank, the pioneer written by himself in a brow n leather covered book now h, Daniel Mark Burbank.

    6. [S303] Burbank, Sara Southworth -- Autobiography, Burbank, Sarah Southworth (Main Author), (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), 608 Item 1., Abigail Blodgett was born March 26 1811 so she was more than four years older than Daniel M.

    7. [S25] Submitted by Nora Murdock, DMB Journal~~Merle Romer~~88 West 50 South~~Centerville, UT~~801-292-3159~~(16 Feb 1999).

    8. [S303] Burbank, Sara Southworth -- Autobiography, Burbank, Sarah Southworth (Main Author), (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), 608 Item 1., . The captain's wife and two young girls 16 years old were the only ones brave enough to c.

    9. [S304] Daniel Mark Burbank History (1814), From Lyle, We traveled across the plains on our way to the Salt Lake, 20 July 1852 my wife Abigail die.

    10. [S25] Submitted by Nora Murdock, Merle Romer~~88 West 50 South~~Centerville, UT~~801-292-3159~~(16 Feb 1999).

    11. [S302] Following is the life story of Daniel Mark Burbank, the pioneer written by himself in a brow n leather covered book now h, Daniel Mark Burbank, August 3, 1839, at which time I again was married. Her name was Abigail Blodgett a widow o.

    12. [S303] Burbank, Sara Southworth -- Autobiography, Burbank, Sarah Southworth (Main Author), (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), 608 Item 1., Abigail and Daniel were married 3 Aug 1839 at Naples Illinois, where they lived until the s.

    13. [S304] Daniel Mark Burbank History (1814), From Lyle, I sold my possessions and continued piloting the river until August 3, 1839, at which time.

    14. [S303] Burbank, Sara Southworth -- Autobiography, Burbank, Sarah Southworth (Main Author), (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952), 608 Item 1., Tynsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts was her birth place and also the scene of her first m.