Hurd
Cheney
Born in Granby, Essex County, Vermont, USA
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin Cheney
and Eunice (Hubbard) Cheney
Brother of
Olive (Cheney) Button, Sarah Elizabeth (Cheney) Herrick, Aaron Cheney, Moses Cheney, Martha (Cheney) Reudles, Anna F (Cheney) Reynolds, Ephraim Cheney, Josiah Cheney, Olive (Cheney) Chandler, Benjamin J Cheney and Eunice (Cheney) Chamberlain
Husband of
Phebe (Ballard) Cheney
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Susannah (Goff) Cheney
— married
1817 in Wyoming, USA
Husband of
Hannah (Crannell) Cheney
— married
14 Apr 1847 in Illinois, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Malinda (Cheney) Higley and Milton Cheney
Died
at age 69
in Wyoming, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Mar 2018
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Biography
Born September 16, 1791 in the town of Grandby, now part of Essex County, Vermont, and according to the existing original Town records, he was the first white child born in the town.
Hurd accompanied his daughter Malinda and son-in-law Clark Higley when they crossed the plains to Utah in 1861, and died enroute at some lost site in the state of Wyoming.
His wives: Susannah Goff (1792 - 1825) married in 1817, Clarissa Damond (1792 - 1830) married in 1826, Phoebe Ballard (1794 - ?) married in 1831, Hannah Crannell (1789 - 1868) married in 1847.
Visited by Joseph Smith and Orson Pratt baptised in 1831 and moved to Kirtland, Ohio. Shoemaker, brought a load of shoes to Utah on trek west. Started out with the David Cannon Company, but died on the third crossing of the Sweetwater River, Wyoming on 12 August 1861. He had dream of his death, his daughter thought he could have been buried alive.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hurd by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hurd by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Richard (Cheney) Wilson
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #351436
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~1.56%
Susanne Glauner :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QR3234427 [compare], Ancestry member SMeyer4291
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~1.56%
Alan Condit :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T277237 [compare], FTDNA kit #N138675
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~0.78%
Brian Martschinske :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Melanie (Moyes) Boehl :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A058968 [compare], Ancestry member Mjboehl
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~0.78%
Kathleen (Creel) Leppert :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Kathy_Creel_Leppert
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T511544 [compare], FTDNA kit #692383
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~0.78%
Lyrae (Bryant) Pinkston :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lyraelepinkston
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~0.78%
Krisanne (Kight) Hoopes :
AncestryDNA
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