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1847–1868

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Birth Date
2 April 1811
Death Date
Unknown
Gender
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Robert Cowen

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  • Robert was re-baptized on 2 November 1851 at Salt Lake City.  According to the 1852 Bishop's Report he was living in the Salt Lake First Ward.  In 1851, 1852 and 1855 he appears in the Utah Territorial Militia Records at Salt Lake.  He paid tithing in the Salt Lake 5th Ward in 1856.  Additional research is needed to identify the year he crossed the plains and the name of the pioneer company with which he traveled.

Unknown Companies (1847-1868)

  • Age at Departure: 35

Sources

  • General Tithing Office, Tithing reports, 1855-1887.
  • "Registry of Names of Persons Residing in the Various Wards as to Bishops' Reports, Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 28th, A.D. 1852" in Key to Migration Sources, Great Britain and North America: A Manual for Students Attending the Second Annual Priesthood Genealogical Research Seminar, June 19-23, 1967 (Provo: Brigham Young University Division of Continuing Education, 1967), edited by Norman Edgar Wright. 
  • Salt Lake Stake, Record of members collection, 1836-1970.
  • Utah, Territorial Militia Records, 1849-1877.