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John Kilpatrick McDonald
1797 - 1874 (77 years)
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Name John Kilpatrick McDonald Born 5 Jan 1797 Donaghadee, Down, Ireland 
Gender Male Lived 1821 Belfast, Ireland Completed 7 year cabinet-making apprenticeship Emigration 1831 Quebec, Canada Immigrated to Quebec, Canada Lived 1842 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Moved to Nauvoo Lived Oct 1847 Council Bluffs (Kanesville) Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States Stayed winter of 1847-48 Lived 15 Sep 1850 Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States Arrived in Salt Lake City Died 31 Aug 1874 Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States Buried 3 Sep 1874 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Person ID I195 Muse-Nagy Last Modified 23 Apr 2020
Father William McDonald, b. Abt 1771, Donaghadee, Down, Ireland , d. 30 Apr 1829, Caddo, Clark, Arkansas, USA (Age ~ 58 years) Mother Agnes Kilpatrick, b. Abt 1771, Whitechurch, Down, Ireland Married Abt 1794 Ireland Family ID F773 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Last Modified 11 Dec 2015 Family ID F794 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Rachel Burke Taaffe, b. 6 Apr 1806, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland , d. 28 Apr 1863, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 57 years) Married 1 Apr 1823 Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland Children 1. Elizabeth McDonald, b. 27 Dec 1823, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland , d. Abt 1890, Armagh, Ireland (Age 66 years) [Birth]2. William Taaffe McDonald, b. 13 Dec 1825, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland , d. 22 Feb 1826, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland (Age 0 years) [Birth]3. William Taaffe McDonald, b. 10 Dec 1827, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland , d. 13 Jan 1901, San Bernadino, San Bernadino, California, United States (Age 73 years)4. John Taaffe McDonald, b. 11 Apr 1830, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland , d. 15 Aug 1910, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 80 years) [Birth]5. Alexander Taaffe McDonald, b. 8 Apr 1833, Quebec, Canada , d. Aug 1840, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 7 years) [Birth]6. Washington Taaffe McDonald, b. 9 Aug 1835, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 1847, Council Bluffs (Kanesville) Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA (Age 11 years) [Birth]7. James Kilpatrick McDonald, b. 4 Aug 1837, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA , d. 17 May 1864, Douglas, Converse, Wyoming, USA (Age 26 years) [Birth]8. Jane Taaffe McDonald, b. Mar 1840, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Aug 1840, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States (Age ~ 0 years) [Birth]9. Joseph Taaffe McDonald, b. 1 Jan 1842, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 15 Jan 1842, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 0 years) [Birth]Last Modified 27 Apr 2013 Family ID F71 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Married 26 Dec 1863 Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Last Modified 9 May 2013 Family ID F72 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 4 Sarah Johnson, b. 12 Feb 1827, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England , d. 14 Jul 1900, Holladay, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 73 years) Married 26 Dec 1863 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, USA Last Modified 11 Dec 2015 Family ID F795 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 5 Harriet Zelnora Marsden, b. 13 May 1854, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 23 Dec 1884, St. Johns, Apache, Arizona Territory, United States (Age 30 years) Married 31 May 1869 Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Children 1. Sarah Johnson McDonald, b. 20 Apr 1870, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States , d. 21 Apr 1870, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States (Age 0 years) [Birth]+ 2. Agnes Kilpatrick McDonald, b. 6 Aug 1871, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States , d. 30 Oct 1901, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 30 years)3. Alexander John McDonald, b. 29 Jul 1873, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States , d. 17 Aug 1873, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States (Age 0 years) [Birth]Last Modified 27 Apr 2013 Family ID F70 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Married 20 May 1873 Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Children 1. Flora Jane McDonald, b. 28 Nov 1873, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States , d. 31 Oct 1874, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States (Age 0 years) [Birth]2. Maybeth Laurel McDonald, b. 12 Sep 1896, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA , d. 6 Oct 1896, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 0 years) [Birth]Last Modified 27 Apr 2013 Family ID F73 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 7 Clara Marsden, b. 16 Sep 1857, Nether Hallam, Yorkshire, England , d. 25 Jul 1924, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 66 years) Married 26 May 1873 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, USA Children 1. Flora Jane McDonald, b. 28 Nov 1873, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States , d. 31 Oct 1874, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States (Age 0 years)2. Maybeth Laurel McDonald, b. 12 Sep 1896, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA , d. 6 Oct 1896, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 0 years)Last Modified 11 Dec 2015 Family ID F786 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 5 Jan 1797 - Donaghadee, Down, Ireland 
Lived - Completed 7 year cabinet-making apprenticeship - 1821 - Belfast, Ireland 
Married - 1 Apr 1823 - Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland 
Emigration - Immigrated to Quebec, Canada - 1831 - Quebec, Canada 
Lived - Moved to Nauvoo - 1842 - Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States 
Married - 26 Dec 1863 - Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA 
Married - 26 Dec 1863 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, USA Married - 31 May 1869 - Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Married - 20 May 1873 - Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, USA Married - 26 May 1873 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, USA 
Died - 31 Aug 1874 - Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 
Buried - 3 Sep 1874 - Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States = Link to Google Earth
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Photos 
John McDonald's store front
Documents 
1850 US Census for John McDonald Household
Great Salt Lake County, Utah
In the household:
John McDonald, 50, M, Cabinet Maker, born in Ireland
Rachel, 41, F, born in Ireland
William, 22, M, Cabinet Maker, born in Ireland
John, 20, M, Cabinet Maker, born in Ireland
Sarah, 18, F, born in Ireland
Donald, 17, M, Laborer, born in Ireland
James, 12, M, born in Penn
1860 US Census for John McDonald Household
Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah
In the household:
John McDonald, 63, M, Cabinet Maker, born in Ireland
Rachel, 56, F, born in Ireland
James, 21, M, born in Penn
1870 US Census for John McDonald Household
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
In the household:
McDonald, John, 73, M, None [Occupation], born in Ireland
Sarah, 44, F, Keeping house, born in England
Harriet, 16, F, At Home, born in England
Clara, 12, F, At Home, born in England
1874 Death of John McDonald Senr
31 August 1874, Salt Lake County, Utah
Name: John McDonald Senr
To Whom Related: Son Wm & Agnes K
Birth: Jan 1794, County Down, Ireland
Death: 31 Aug 1874
Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949
1874 Obituary of John McDonald
2 September 1874, Deseret News
In this city, August 31st, JOHN McDONALD, Sen., aged 77 years, 7 months and 25 days. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June, 1842, in the city of Pittsburg, PA and emigrated to Nauvoo in 1843; came to the Valley, September 19, 1849.
Utah Digital Newspapers, https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/
1874 Death Notice of John McDonald
9 September 1874, The Deseret News
Deaths by Violence, etc.
Mr. John McDonald, of the 13th Ward Salt Lake City, nearly seventy-eight years of age, fatally injured by falling from a haystack.
Newspapers.com
1901 Death Record of Agnes McDonald Nott
Salt Lake County, Utah
Name: Agnes McDonald Nott
Age: 29 years, 2 months, 24 days
Social state: Married
Birth Place: Salt Lake City
Parents: John McDonald and Zelnora Marsden
Father's Nativity: Ireland
Mother's Nativity: England
Date of Internment: 30 Oct 1901
Date of Death: 30 Oct 1901
FamilySearch.org, Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949
John Kilpatrick McDonald
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, page 1057
John Kilpatrick McDonald Find-a-Grave entry 
Family Group Sheet #1 
Family Group Sheet #2 
Family Group Sheet #3 
1984 John Kilpatrick McDonald Family Reunion Notes
17-18 August 1984, Salt Lake City, Utah
Headstones 
John Kilpatrick McDonald Headstone
Find A Grave Memorial# 31930121
Plot: E 2 5
John Kilpatrick McDonald - headstone
Sacred to the memory of John McDonald who departed this life August 31st 1874. Aged 77 years, 7 months, and 25 days. He was a lover of truth. Also his children. Sarah born April 20th 1870, aged 2 days. Alexander born July 29th 1873, aged 18 days. Flora born November 29th 1873, aged 11 months. "Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
Albums The Biography of John (Kilpatrick) McDonald No 1 (26)
The biography of John (Kilpatrick) McDonald #1 written by his son John (Taaffe) McDonald #2
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Notes - Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
(ancestry.com)
Name: John K. McDonald
Year: 1849
Place: Utah
Source Publication Code: 1132.8
Primary Immigrant: McDonald, John K
Source Bibliography: CARTER, KATE B., compiler Horticulture in the West. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1949, pp. 551-472
Page: 462
Source Citation: Place: Utah; Year: 1849; Page Number: 462.
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
Description:
Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,838,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.
- Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
(ancestry.com)
Name: John McDonald
Gender: Male
Relationship to Primary Person: Self (Head)
Father: William McDonald
Mother: Agnes Killpatrick [Nancy Kirkpatrick]
Birth Date: 5 Jan 1797
Birth Place: Donaghadee, Down, Ireland
Marriage Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Death Date: 31 Aug 1874
Death Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Burial Date: 3 Sep 1874 Burial Place: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Residences: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA; 1860, 1870
LDS Church Ordinance Data: Ordained Seventy
LDS Temple Ordinance Data:
Baptism Date: December 11, 1964
Endowment Date: January 31, 1846 Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, IL, USA
Sealed to Spouse Number 1 Date: September 6, 1852
Sealed to Spouse Number 2 Date: April 30, 1864
Sealed to Spouse Number 3 Date: May 31, 1869
Sealed to Spouse Number 4 Date: May 26, 1873
Vocations: Cabinet Maker
In 1860 John had a household of three, a real wealth of $1000 and a personal wealth of $200.
In 1870 he had a household of four, a real wealth of $1000 and a personal wealth of $100.
Household Members:
Name Relation
John McDonald
Self (Head)
Rachel Burke Taaffe
Spouse
Sarah Johnson
Spouse
Harriett Zelnora Marsden
Spouse
Flora Jane McDonald
Child
Maybeth Laurel McDonald
Child
Seventy Quorum Membership, 1835-1846
(ancestry.com)
Name: John Kilpatrick McDonald [Kirkpatrick McDonald]
Birth Date: 1797
Birth Place: Ireland
Death Date: 1874
Death Place: Utah
Father: William McDonald
Mother: Agnes Kirkpatrick
Wives:
Johnson, Sarah
Marsden, Clara St. Ledger (2)
Marsden, Harriett Zelnora (3)
Taaffe, Rachel Burke (8)
Quorum: Q11; Q22
Nauvoo Data: Baptized 1842; City of Joseph (Nauvoo); Endowed Nauvoo Temple 1/31/46 (Seventy)
Post-Nauvoo Data: Cabinet Maker; Salt Lake City UT Sources: M30:138; 409; S80; Q21+; Q11
- Marriages
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6627422/person/-1259168941/fact/2196851738
Name
John Kilpatrick McDonald
Birth
5 Jan 1797
Donaghadee, Down, North Ireland
Marriage
1 Apr 1823 (Age: 26)
Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland
to Rachel Burke Taaffe
Marriage
30 Apr 1864 (Age: 67)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
to Sarah Johnson
Marriage
31 May 1869 (Age: 72)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
to Harriet Zelnora Marsden
? International Genealogical Index
Marriage
26 May 1873 (Age: 76)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
to Clara St Ledger Marsden
Death
31 Aug 1874 (Age: 77)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Burial
View event
3 Sep 1874
City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA
Source: Sexton Records of Salt Lake City Cemetery
Transcription of text:
Name: John Sr. McDonald Birth Date: Jan 1794 Birth Place: Down Ireland Death Date: 31 Aug 1874 Death Place: Salt Lake City, Utah Burial Date: 31 August 1874 Cemetery: Salt Lake City Cemetery Source: Sexton Records Grave Location: E-2-5-1/2-SO
- Pioneer Overland Travel - Trail Excerpt
Bunker, Edward, Autobiography, 1894,
22-23.
. . . to Iowa City which place we reached in the month of June 1856[.] Here the companies were fitted out with hand carts[.] I was given charge of a Welsh company and left Iowa City23rd 1856. We rec?d our provisions and teams to haul our supplies at Council Bluffs. After leaving Iowa City, we encountered some heavy rain and wind storms which blew down our tents and washed away our handcarts. I got a heavy drenching, which brought on a spell of rheumatism that confined me to my bed a portion of the Journey.
I had for my councilors Bros [David] Grant, a Scotchman and taylor [tailor] by trade, and [John] Macdonald a cabinet maker, neither of whichhad had much experience in handling teams[.] Both were returned missionaries. The Welsh had no experience at all and very few of them could speak English. This made the burden upon me very heavy. I had the mule team to drive and had to instruct the teamsters about yoking the oxen.
The journey from the Missouri river to Salt Lake City was accomplished in 65 days. We were short of provisions all the way and would have suffered for food, had not supplies
reached us from the Valley. However we arrived safely in Salt Lake City Oct. 2nd 1856. - Pioneer Overland Travel - Pioneer Detail
John Kilpatrick McDonald
Individual Information
BIRTH DATE 5 Jan. 1797
DEATH DATE 31 Aug. 1874
GENDER Male
He was a returning missionary and served as a councilor to Captain Bunker.
Companies Edward Bunker Company (1856)
Age at departure: 59
Sources
New FamilySearch/Family Tree
Source Location - Internet Web Site
"Immigration to Utah," Deseret News [Weekly], 15 Oct. 1856, 254.
Trail Excerpt
Source Location
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
Bunker, Edward, Autobiography, 1894, 22-23.
Trail Excerpt
Source Location
Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah
Journal History, 2 Oct. 1856, p. 12
Parry, John, Reminiscences and diary, 1857 Mar.-1867 Sept., 55-60.
Trail Excerpt
Source Location
Church Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah
Ship Passenger and Manifest Lists
Source Location
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah - www.findagrave.com
John Kilpatrick McDonald
Birth: Jan. 5, 1797, IrelandDeath: Aug. 31, 1874
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Born at Donaghadee, Down, Ireland
Son of William McDonald and Nancy (Agnes) Kilpatrick
Married Rachel Burke Taffee, April 1823, Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland
Married Sarah Johnson, 26 Dec 1863, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Harriet Zelnora Marsden, 31 May 1869, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Married Clara (St. Ledger) Marsden, 26 May 1873, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Family links:
Spouses:
Rachel Burke Taaffe McDonald (1805 - 1863)
Sarah Johnson McDonald (1827 - 1900)*
Clara St. Ledger Marsden Needham (1857 - 1924)*
Children:
William Taaffe McDonald (1827 - 1901)*
Washington Taaffe McDonald (1835 - 1847)*
Flora Jane McDonald (1873 - 1874)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Plot: E_2_5
Created by: SMS53
Record added: Dec 03, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 31930121
- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s - Ancestry.com
Name: Rachel B. McDonald
Year: 1849
Place: Utah
Source Publication Code: 1132.8
Primary Immigrant: McDonald, Rachel B
Source Bibliography: CARTER, KATE B., compiler Horticulture in the West. Salt Lake City: Bibliography: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1949, pp. 441-472.
Source Citation: Place: Utah; Year: 1849; Page Number: 462.
Source Information: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
- Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
