Married Lydia Aby Presley, 27 Jan 1853, Salt Lake City, Utah
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Mead, Orlando Fish, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Jan. 10, 1823, in Wilton, Fairfield County, Conn., a son of Geo. Mead and Hannah Whitlock. He was baptized by Charles W. Wandell in New Canaan, Conn., in January, 1839, came to Nauvoo in 1841, was ordained an Elder and afterwards a Seventy, came west in 1846, and enlisted in the Battalion at Council Bluffs; arrived in the "Valley" in 1849, after working for some time on the Mormon Island, near Sacramento, and worked as a shoemaker for John A. Surfer. After his arrival in the "Valley" he located in Cottonwood, and later in Salt Lake City, and went south at the time of the "Move." After his marriage in 1853, he lived in Spanish Fork for 21 years. He located at Price, Utah, in 1885 where he died Feb. 26, 1897.
ORLANDO F. MEAD. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Lydia Aby Presley, 27 Jan 1853, Salt Lake City, Utah
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 4
Mead, Orlando Fish, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company C, was born Jan. 10, 1823, in Wilton, Fairfield County, Conn., a son of Geo. Mead and Hannah Whitlock. He was baptized by Charles W. Wandell in New Canaan, Conn., in January, 1839, came to Nauvoo in 1841, was ordained an Elder and afterwards a Seventy, came west in 1846, and enlisted in the Battalion at Council Bluffs; arrived in the "Valley" in 1849, after working for some time on the Mormon Island, near Sacramento, and worked as a shoemaker for John A. Surfer. After his arrival in the "Valley" he located in Cottonwood, and later in Salt Lake City, and went south at the time of the "Move." After his marriage in 1853, he lived in Spanish Fork for 21 years. He located at Price, Utah, in 1885 where he died Feb. 26, 1897.
ORLANDO F. MEAD. Private. Mustered out with Company July 16, 1847, at Los Angeles, Cal.
* Mormon Battalion members
Family Members
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Annie Eliza Mead Pratt
1856–1937
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Zina Percinda Mead Connor
1856–1944
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Lydia Kiziah Mead Dimick
1861–1935
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Emily Jane Mead Perkins
1864–1905
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Louisa Mary Mead Nelson
1866–1948
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Amanda Aurelia Mead Montgomery
1868–1925
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Idona Frances Mead Fullmer
1871–1905
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Orlando T Mead
1873–1913
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George Carlos Mead
1877–1939
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