Orlando Fish Mead
Birth Date
On 1823 January 10 (Born)
Death Date
On 1897 February 26 (Died)
Gender
Male
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Pioneer
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Born in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
1823 January 10
Date Details
Occurred On 1823 January 10
Joined
Mormon Battalion Company C
1846 July 16 – 1847 July 16 (Age 23)
Members in Company
Rank
Private
Date Details
Started On 1846 July 16
Joined Company
Ended On 1847 July 16
Company Disbanded
Traveled in
Ebenezer Brown Company (1848)
1848 August 12 – October 10 (Age 25)
Pioneers in Company
Date Details
Started On 1848 August 12
Joined Company
Ended On 1848 October 10
Company Arrived
Married
Lydia Aby Presley
1853 January 27 (Age 30)
Served in
White Mountain Mission
1855 April 21 – July (Age 32)
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Mission Type
Other
Marital Status
Married
Date Details
Started On 1855 April 21
Called
Ended On 1855 July
Released
Died in Price, Carbon, Utah, United States
1897 February 26 (Age 74)
Media
Orlando Fish Mead (1823 - 1897) Profile
Sources
Person
1850 United States Census
"Utah Census, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory", 1850 United States Census.
1856 Utah Census
1856 Utah Census.
Deseret Weekly
"Obituary Note", Deseret Weekly, (20 March 1897), Page 448.
Salt Lake City Death Records
Salt Lake City Death Records.
Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966
Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
Mission
Historical Record Book, 1841-1874
"Item 8: List of missionaries, 1855", Historical Record Book, 1841-1874, (1855).
Pioneer
Consecration deeds, 1854-1867
Consecration deeds, 1854-1867.
Eastern Utah Advocate
"Another Pioneer Passes Away", Eastern Utah Advocate, (4 March 1897), Page 1.
Jackson, Ronald Vern, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tax List 1854-61, Salt Lake City, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc
Jackson, Ronald Vern, Salt Lake City, Utah, Tax List 1854-61, Salt Lake City, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc.
Latter-Day Saints biographical encyclopedia. 4 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1901
"Mead, Orlando Fish", Latter-Day Saints biographical encyclopedia. 4 vols. Salt Lake City, Utah: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1901, 4, Page 753-754.
Registry of names of persons residing in the various wards as to bishop's reports, 1852-1853
Registry of names of persons residing in the various wards as to bishop's reports, 1852-1853.
Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996
Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996, Page 222-223.
Ricketts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996, Page 23.
Salt Lake Telegram
"Now And Then", Salt Lake Telegram, (29 July 1926), Page 8.
Mormon Battalion
Mormon Battalion Company C muster roll, 1846
Mormon Battalion Company C muster roll, 1846, Page 1.
Mormon Battalion lists, 1927
Mormon Battalion lists, 1927, Page 33.
Selected pension application files relating to the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848
"Mormon Battalion, Volunteers", Selected pension application files relating to the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848.