Abigail Mead (1770-1854)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Abigail Mead, shared grandmother of Adaline Knight and Henrietta McBride (wives of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap).  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Abigail Mead:

Biographies and Related Materials

• Centennial History in Honor of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap, 1850-1950 (including 1952 and 1956 Supplements) 
• Belnap, W. Dean. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821 – 1899) (1974)
• Belnap, Brent J. “Life Story of Abigail Mead McBride” (1995) (prepared for DUP book)
• “Abigail Mead McBride,” Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, vol. __ (Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1998), p. ___
• Belnap, Flora, comp. Pioneer Incidents of Rev. Daniel McBride and Abigail Mead-McBride and Their Children of Utah, Michigan and New York (1952)
• Dotson, Flora Belnap. “Analysis of the Pedigree of James McBride and Betsy Mead, My Great Grandparents”
• Marion Adaline Belnap Kerr Collection, LDS Church Archives
• “Abigail Mead McBride,” Heart Throbs of the West, vol. 8, pp. __-__
• “Abigail Mead McBride,” Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. __, pp. __-__

LDS Materials

• Patriarchal Blessing: Abigail Mead McBride, 8 Jun 1836; Church History Library, Marion Adaline Belnap Kerr Collection, MS 916, Folder 17, Item 1
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Newspaper Articles

• “Stories of Utah Pioneers: Abigail Mead McBride Was Born In New York in 1770 and Died in Ogden in 1854, After Varied Experiences,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 12 Feb 1933
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Census Records

• 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Davis County, UT (1850)

Photographs and Images

Headstone Images

• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Abigal [sic] McBride (Aug 1990)
• Headstone: Ogden City Cemetery: Abigal [sic] McBride (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Jul 2007)

Spouse

• Daniel McBride (1766-1823)

Children

• John McBride (1788-1860)
• Samuel McBride (1789-1874)
• Daniel McBride, Jr. (1791-1864)
• James McBride (1793-1839)
• Margaret Ann McBride (1794-1845)
• Hyrum McBride (1798-1839)
• Cyrus Gideon McBride (1800-1883)
• Reuben McBride (1803-1891)
• Martha McBride (1805-1901)

Parents

• Gideon Mead (about 1743-1814)
• Martha Fiske (about 1750-1813)

Last update:  16 Jan 2021