Ancestry of
Keri Russell

TV and Movie Actress

Joseph Fish

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Keri Russell — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Horace Fish 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Leavitt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jun 1840 
  • Birth Location:
  • Twelve Mile Grove (now Wilton Center), Will, Illinois 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Dec 1926 
  • Death Location:
  • Enterprise, Washington, Utah 
  • Burial Date:
  • 11 Dec 1926 
  • Burial Location:
  • Enterprise City Cemetery, Enterprise, Washington, Utah 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Campbell Steele
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Mar 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Parowan, Iron, Utah 
  • Child:

  John Lazelle Fish (Ahnentafel No:28 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joseph Fish was a member of the Mormon Church. He had at four wives and at least twenty children.

    Some sources give Joseph Fish's birthplace as Joliet, Illinois.

• Additional marriages for Joseph Fish

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  • Spouse:
  • Eliza Jane Lewis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1869
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. George, Washington, Utah

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  • Spouse:
  • Adelaide Margaret Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1876
  • Marriage Location:
  • Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah

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  • Spouse:
  • Julia Ann Reidhead

• Sources for Joseph Fish

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/19/2015).
  • ² Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848, Membership record for Joseph Fish.
  • ³ Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961, Death certificate for Joseph Fish.
  • ⁴ Eldredge, Mrs. Jane Jennings, The Leavitts of America : A Compilation of Five Branches and Gleanings from New England to California and Canada, Woods Cross, Utah: Leavitt Family Association (1924), 87.
  • ⁵ Esshom, Frank, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company (1913), 872.
  • ⁶ Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Leavitt: Descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son, Moses, Concord, New Hampshire: Evans Printing Company (1941), 96.
  • ⁷ Youngberg, Florence C., Conquerors of the West, Vol. 2, Entry for father Horace Fish.

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