Elijah Cheney
1785-1863
Elijah Cheney (1785-1863) was born 14 Sep. 1785 in Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. He was the son of John Cheney and Elizabeth Granger. He married Achsa Thompson on 14 Mar. 1811; widowed 1 Dec. 1845. He married Sarah Harmon in 1846 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois; separated in 1853. He married Anna Partridge about 1853. He was baptized 9 Feb. 1832 in New York. He and Zerah Pulsipher taught Wilford Woodruff the Gospel in Dec. 1833 in New York. He died in 1863 in Centerville, Davis Co., Utah Territory.
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