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Ira Bisbee[1]

Male 1809 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name Ira Bisbee  [2]
    Birth 18 Nov 1809  Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    Census 24 Oct 1850  Lotus, El Dorado, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 18 Aug 1870  Richmond Township, Ray, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I9194  Bisbee
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2009

    Father James B. Bisbee,   b. 11 Aug 1783, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1861, East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Mother Polly Packard,   b. 14 Jan 1787, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Aug 1862, East Pharsalia, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Marriage 28 Jan 1807  Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8] 
    • Letter written to Tryphena Bisbee Crandall, Utah Territory by Polly Packard Bisbee:
      "McDonough, N.Y. May 30th, 1841 Dear and affectionate child, we received your letter dated May 8th and was sorry to hear that you had not heard from us. We sent you a letter last July and also another in March and we wrote to you both times that we had not received any papers and I desire to know what the reason is that we do not receive them. I want you to write to Stephen and try to find out the cause of all this trouble. There hasn't been elders in this place since you went away. We know nothing about the church only what we hear in the newspapers and they speak quite well of them. Hiram stops fighting for me. Our health is much as yousial and I hope these few broken lines will find you injoying the same blessing. I am sorry to hear you was sik last summer but if you lov God it will work fore your good. You wrote that you had married a poor man I care not how poore hee is if hee is rich in faith and will keep all the commands of God with an I single to the glory of the same. then I think you can take comfort together. I want you to come and make us a long visit, both of you if you have faith anofe to come by water. Your father wrote to you if you would send word how much monny it would take to bare your expense he would send you same but I think it wouldnt bee safe to send monny in a letter as you dont get them. This is the third time that I have wrote to you less than a yeare and have been looking for a letter ever sens last fall from you. I began to think that you was all dead but when I heard from you I felt to thank the lord that hee had spared youre life and my prayer to God is that hee would prepare a way for us to see each other onse more this side of the grave. Note-(There is no signature after this abrupt ending, but the handwriting is that of Tryphena's mother, Polly Bisbee. The letter was folded and apparently sealed with wax, no envelope, but with this inscription: East Pharsalia, N.Y. June 10th Mr. Myron Crandal, Quincy, Adams Co. Ill.) July the 23-1843." -- Our Pioneer Heritage [7]
    Family ID F675  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 18 Nov 1809 - Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 24 Oct 1850 - Lotus, El Dorado, California, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 18 Aug 1870 - Richmond Township, Ray, Missouri, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Ira is noted living with his brother in the US Census
      1870 US Census, Richmond, Ray, MO. M593-803 18AUG P561 L23 V557 A430-83/141

  • Sources 
    1. [S2012] Census Population Schedules.

    2. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 28.

    3. [S596] Bisbee, James B. (i1178): Probate, (Chenango County Courthouse, Norwich, New York).

    4. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 83.

    5. [S1090] Bisbee, Ira (I9194): 1850 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2009): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M432, roll 34, page 377B, line 35, dwelling 877, family 992; image accessed 19 Oct 2010.), 1850.CA.El Dorado.Union.5.

    6. [S1096] Bisbee, Iram Packard (i9196): 1870 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2009): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M593, roll 803, sheet 83, page 561A, line 23, dwelling 557, family 557; image accessed 18 Oct 2010.), 1870.MO.Ray.Richmond.83.

    7. [S2121] Our Pioneer Heritage, (Internation Society, Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Our Pioneer Heritage, (28). Salt Lake City: Infobases, Inc., 1996. Published under license. All Rights Reserved. This database tells the story of Utah pioneers and their accomplishments. Many of the bibliographic entries include such information as names of spouse and children, place of birth and death, place of residence, professions, and church duties, as well as other specific details of every day life. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers have given great service in searching out, clarifying and preserving the pioneer history, which is essential to perpetuate the great ideal of the pioneer heritage.), Historic Letters, [P.342] Letters From Home, Company E.
      "Tryphena Crandall"

    8. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 101.