Family History
Rachel Ann Cordon was born in Nauvoo, Illinois. She married William Ward. William and Rachel had nine children. Their oldest, George Alfred Ward, (1862-1898), is our direct ancestor. William and Rachel raised their family in Willard, Utah except for about 3 years they lived in Bloomington, Idaho. William was called on a mission to Malad, Idaho, March 10, 1876. In his labors with the Indians at Washakie, he not only taught them the Gospel, but plowed the land and sowed some of the first wheat raised there. He was untiring in his labors and worked in all kinds of weather. He caught cold and had pneumonia in the spring of 1876. He was very ill and when he was able to be moved they brought him home to his wife in Willard. He died on September 16, 1876, when he was 34 years old leaving Rachel with eight children and pregnant with their ninth.
Rachel Ann Cordon
January 24, 1844
Rachel Ann Cordon
24 January 1844 to 21 October 1911
Parents:
Alfred Cordon (1817-1871)
Emma Parker (1819-1898)
Siblings:
Elizabeth Cordon (1838-1839)
George Cordon (1840-1840)
Edwin Parker Cordon (1841-1929)
Emma Cordon (1846-1935)
Alfred Cordon (1847-1848)
Adelaide Amelia Cordon (1849-1914)
Myra Green Cordon (1851-1852
Winn Henry Cordon (1852-1853)
Mary Frances Cordon (1854-1862)
Charles Edward Cordon (1856-1877)
Eliza Almira Cordon (1858-1926)
Sarah Jane Cordon (1860-1925)
Ida Victoria Cordon (1862-1919)
Spouse #1: 24 July 1861
William Ward (1842-1876)
Spouse #2: 4 November 1888
Alfred Brandon (1840-)
Children with William Ward:
George Alfred Ward (1862-1898)
William Edwin Ward (1863-1863)
Emma Ann Ward (1865-1943)
Richard Welton Ward (1867-1892)
Orville Henry Ward (1868-1945)
Edward Alonzo Ward (1870-1940)
Albert Trulock Ward (1872-1954)
Levi Cordon Ward (1875-1930)
Rachel Adelaide Ward (1877-1957)
Children wiith Alfred Brandon:
Alvira Lapriene Brandon (1895-1916)
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