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Bithiah Fordham Wells

Burial: Willard Precinct Cemetery  Willard Box Elder County Utah.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=WE&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=47&GScntry=4&GSsr=3241&GRid=47544321&

US International Marriage Record shows Bithiah Fordham married 1849

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Church of Latter Day Saints - Bathia Fordham

Father Elijah Fordham - Mother Bethiah Fisher

Birth Date 2 Jun 1825 - Alternate Birth Dates -2  June  1831
Birth Place - Oakland, Oakland, Michigan, USA
Alternate Birth Places - Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan USA
Death Date 11 Feb 1920  - Alternate Death Dates - 18  February 1920
LDS Church Ordinance Data Baptism Date - 2 June 1881
LDS Temple Data -  Baptism Date - 31 March1966 - Endowment Date - 3  February  1846 Temple -  Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.  Endowment Date 12 September 1966 - Temple -  Logan, Cache, Utah -  Sealed to Parents Date January 17, 1895 Temple - Logan, Cache, Utah.

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Biography of Bithiah Fordham Wells

https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/13165861

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Spouse -   Jane Ann Fisher - married 23 November 1822 at New York City, New York.
Children -  Ann Eliza Fordham, George Fisher Fordham, Jane Olivia Fordham.
Wife Jane Ann dies in Manhattan, New York, New York, at age 26 18 July 1828 aged 30 years.

Spouse - Bethiah (Bathiah, Bathia, Bithiah) Fisher married 12 April 1830  New York City - aged 32 years
Wife Bathia (Bathiah, Bethiah) dies in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan 11 March 1834 aged 36 years.


Spouse -   Anna Bibbins Chaffee married 3 October 1838 at Ashford, Windham, Connecticut
Children -  Lydia Lovina Fordham, Amos Pierre Fordham, Anna Maria Fordham, Joseph Elijah Fordham, Mary Louisa Fordham, Emily Adelia Fordham.

Spouse -   Amelia [Brown?]
There was a chronology someone wrote earlier this year about Amelie incluiding this piece.

October 1850, Salt Lake City -  Upon arrival in the city, Amelia was greeted by Addison Everett, who had been the branch president in NYC, and was an old friend.  He and his wife invited Amelia and her two girls to live with them temporarily.   By the following spring, they are listed as being in the household of Elijah Fordham, and in 1856 Amelia  married  him.

1861, Salt Lake City -  Amelia is divorced from Elijah Fordham sometime soon after this year.  No record shows her going to St. George with Elijah

Passed away May 1877 - Amelia died in St. George, buried as Amelia Brown Spencer Smith.  Death records list her this way, but her cemetery marker says Amelia Brown Spencer.  [I (read chronology) was told that the surname Smith was attached because she was sealed to Joseph Smith after his death.]

http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/Amelia-Spencer-Spencer-Brown/1807895#given_names=Amelia&family_names=Brown

https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/13623682

Spouse -   Clarissa Brooks or Fosdick born 15 August 1799 -  Goshen, Litchfield Co., Connecticut may have married 6 Feb. 1846 New York City.

Has Jane Ann Fisher and Bathiah Fisher sealed to him 12 May 1848 - aged 48 years.

Spouse -   Elizabeth Hughes married 21 March 1856 Salt Lake City Utah.
Child -  Elizabeth Mary Fordham

Spouse -   Jane Marshall McAuslan born 12 March 1828 - Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland  may have married 1 April 1856 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory - divorced  30 July 1858 Salt Lake City, Utah
Children -  William Elijah Fordham born 5 Jan 1857, Salt Lake City, Utah


http://familyrecorder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/elijah-fordham-1798-1879.html

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1850 Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory,

Anna B Fordham  40
Amos O Fordham  10 Born Iowa  Anna M Fordham  6 Born Illinois
Joseph Fordham  Born Iowa 4 Emily Fordham  0  Born Des
Achsa White  39
Henry White  20

1860 The daughter Anna, Joseph, Elija and Delia (probably Emily on the 1850  ) Fordham was with her father Elijah - Great Salt Lake City Ward 17, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory

Elijah Fordham  62 Amelia Fordham  47
Elizabeth Fordham  20  Amos P Fordham  18
Elijah Fordham  3 Joseph Fordham  11
George Fordham  30 Anna Fordham  15
Delia Fordham  10

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Elijah was with Amelia in 1850 Great Salt Lake county, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory.

Elijah Fordham    54  New York
Amelia Fordham    46  New York
Julia Fordham     13  New York  Julia was Julia Josephine Spencer.
Henrietta Fordham     12 New York

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCS6-B9X

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Clarissa Fosdick  - Born  15 Aug 1799 - Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Residences: Missouri,


L D S Endowment Date - January 12, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.

Clarissa Fosdick  Self (Head)
Elijah Fordham  Spouse

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1850 - St Louis Ward 5, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri

Louis Grant  35 Eliza Grant  27
Elvira J Grant  6
Clarrisa Fosdick  50

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5PC-69Z

1860 - St Louis Ward 8, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri

Clarissa Fosdick  61
Elvira Grand  16

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH83-5JX

Clarisan Fosdick born 1800 passed away 31 August 1865 - aged 65 years - Hertto St Louis.
Cemetery - Wesleyan 

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Membership of The Church of Christ Latter Day Saints - Clarissa Fosdick - Spouse - 6 February 1846 - Elijah Fordham  Self (Head)
Jane Ann Fisher  Spouse  - Anne Eliza Fordham  Child  - George Fordham  Child
Bethiah Fisher  Spouse - Bathiah Fordham  Child  - Mormon Fordham  Child
Anna Bibbins Chaffee  Spouse - Lydia Lovina Fordham  Child - Amos Pier Fordham  Child
Anna Maria Fordham  Child - Joseph Fordham  Child  - Mary Louisa Fordham  Child
Emily Adelia Fordham  Child
Clarissa Fosdick  Spouse  Elizabeth Mary Fordham  Child
Jane Marshall McAuslan  Spouse  William Elijah Fordham  Child
Amelia Spencer  Spouse

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Look no Elizabeth Hughes
then look Look reply 16
Elizabeth HUGHES - Marriage -21 March 1850 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
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   Elizabeth Hughes married 21 March 1856 Salt Lake City Utah.

This is exactly the problem I am having there are several different versions of Elijah's biography all giving conflicting dataseveral give his marriage to  Amelia as April 1 1856 ton the same day as the marriage to Jane Marshall MCAUSLAN  and just a month after he married Elizabeth! So the earlier date for Elizabeth's marriage looks more likely but then she would only have been 10!!!
but this one http://www.longislandsurnames.com/getperson.php?personID=I03111&tree=Fordhamhas:
 "The 1856 date comes from the record of Susan Ward Easton-Black's „Membership of the LDS Church.‰ Easton-Black has Amelia sealed to Elijah (1 Apr 1856) before they were married (which she gives as 6 Apr 1856), not a possible circumstance. Easton-Black says her information came from a Family Group Sheet filled out by Elijah Fordham himself. But the 1850 federal census shows that Amelia and Elijah were married in 1850. Thus my conclusion is that there was a typo in Easton-Black's work or that Fordham‚s handwriting on the family group sheet led her to misinterpret an "0" as a "6." Thus the marriage year is not 1856, but 1850. They were sealed on April 1, 1856[."

This ttps://familysearch.org/photos/stories/13623682  also says
 "When Amelia got to Utah, she was taken in by both Addison Everett and his wife and by Elijah Fordham, who wanted to marry both her and her young daughter Julia, according to various family accounts."

Its so confusing and hard to know what the truth actually was.