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- PROPERTY:
Wells, Block 15
Wells, Block 16, Lot 4 Part
T7 R5, Section 29, NW/4 SE/4 NE/4
T7 R5, Section 15, W/2 SW/4 SE
NAUVOO RECORDS:
Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 39, pp 474-477
Name transcribed from A "Grave" Experience at the Mormon Pioneer Winter Quarters Cemetery. By Carlyle B. Jensen and Gail Geo. Holmes, Published by Authors October 1999. Quoted from with permission of Gail Geo. Holmes. The record is a Commencement to bury in the burying ground at Winter Quarters, North West Corner. Spellings, dates and etc. are as written in the original record - mistakes and all."
Stated in record above for, "M. A. Serrine; age 36 yrs., 6 mos., 2 days; husband of Rachel T.; disease consumption; birthplace Philips, , New York; grave no. 307.
The following footnotes are included for M. A. Serrine:
1. M. A. Serrine died on board the Stream Boat Niagara at the mouth of the Ohio River, on his return home from a misson to England, buried in the City of Nauvoo, Illinois in lot No. 33, owned by Martin H. Peck, on Warsaw Street. (This information written on the cemetery records.)
2. Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, pp 713, 414, "- - - while traveling on the steamboat "Niagara" he died with consumption April 29, 1848, at the mouth ofthe Ohio River. His remains were brought to Winter Quarters for interment. Under the date of May 21, 1848, the following is recorded in the Historian's Office journal kept at Winter Quarters: "The remains of Mephibosheth Serrine were taken up to the burying ground on the hill. In the procession following the remains were Sister Sirrine and children, President Brigham Young and lady, Ezra T. Benson, Erastus Snow and lady, Phinehas Richards, Franklin D. Richards and others. While the grave was being dug, Ezra T. Benson delivered a short but appropriate address, Erastus Snow prayed, after which the remains were interred and the people left the ground a little before noon."
- Family Group Record by Nauvoo Land and Records
PROPERTY:
Wells, Block 15
Wells, Block 16, Lot 4 Part
T7 R5, Section 29, NW/4 SE/4 NE/4
T7 R5, Section 15, W/2 SW/4 SE
NAUVOO RECORDS:
Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 39, pp 474-477
Early Mormon Records, Certificate of Record, Lyman DePlatt, Vol 1 p 1
HISTORIES:
LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, Andrew Jensen, pp 713-714
OTHER SOURCE:
Tragedy at Winter Quarters, p 56
Names of those who died and were burried at Winter Quarters, p 18
FATHER: Isaac Sirrine
MOTHER: Sarah Hannah Garrison
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