1 Born at Sheringham, Norfolk, England; son of Mary Hagen and William Bird. 2 Immigrated to Utah Territory, 1850. 3 Married Margaret Montgomery; participated in plural marriage. 4 Lived in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward. 5 Died at Salt Lake City. 6 (See Document 2.1)
James Bird
18 May 1811 — 20 April 1896
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), James Bird (18WZ-1J). Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1966), 757.
[2] “Ancestral File,” database, James Bird.
[3] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), James Bird.
[4] “Ancestral File,” database, James Bird.
[5] 1850 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, James Bird. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 45, James Bird. 1860 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 14, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 10, James Bird; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014). “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), James Bird KWVP-RN3 .
[6] “The Dead,” Deseret News, Apr. 25, 1896, 32.