Reuben McBride (1803-1891)

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

Autobiographical Writings

• “Journal of Reuben McBride, 1857, Including his Genealogical Notes” (transcribed by Stephen D. Robison)
• Reuben McBride Diary, LDS Church Archives, MS 8197

Biographies and Related Materials

• 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”
• McBride, Virginia, comp. & ed. Charles R. McBride Memorial: Notes on the Ancestry and Descendants of Charles R. McBride, 1856-1948, and His Wife Rhoda Alice Lyman McBride, 1859-1942 (1971)
• Baugh, Alexander L. “‘Blessed Is the First Man Baptised in This Font’: Reuben McBride, First Proxy to Be Baptized for the Dead in the Nauvoo Temple,” Mormon Historical Studies (Fall 2002), pp. 253-61
• History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, vol. 2, chapter 24, pp. 547, 549-50
• McBride, Matthew S. “Baptism for the Dead in Nauvoo,” Part 3, 9 Nov 2001
• History of the Church, vol. 7, chapter __, p. 484: ____ 1845
• Times and Seasons, 1 Jul 1841
• William Clayton Diaries, 1841

Family Record

• Daniel McBride Family Record (handwriting unknown; copied from original owned by Della A. Belnap; supplement notes in handwriting of Flora Belnap (daughter of Hyrum Belnap))
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Letters

Letters from Reuben McBride to:

• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 12 Jan 1875
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• Reuben McBride (brother to Martha McBride, 15 Jul 1877
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 15 Feb 1878
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, Apr 1878
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 29 Nov 1878
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 31 Jul 1880
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride (Nauvoo Temple Baptisms for Dead Letter), 1 Nov 1886
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• Reuben McBride (brother) (with additions from Reuben McBride’s wife, Mary Ann Anderson, and grandchild, Nellie McBride) to Martha McBride, 5 Oct 1887
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 6 Dec 1887
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride, 25 Dec 1887
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• Reuben McBride (brother) to Martha McBride (no date)
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Letters to Reuben McBride from:

• Mary Ann Anderson (wife), Volney McBride (nephew), Mary Louisa McBride (daughter), Helen McBride (daughter), 18 and 22 Jun 1851
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Letters from Mary Ann Anderson (wife of Reuben McBride) to:

• Mary Ann Anderson (sister-in-law; wife of Reuben McBride) to Martha McBride, 15 Jul 1877
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Newspaper Articles

• “Local and Other Matters–Party at the Social Hall,” Deseret News, 10 Oct 1870

Census Records

• 1840 U.S. Federal Census, Kirtland, Lake, OH (1840)
• 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Kirtland, Lake, OH (21 Oct 1850)
• 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Fillmore, Millard, UT (14 Jul 1860)
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• 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Fillmore, Millard, UT (27 Jun 1870)
• 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Fillmore, Millard, UT (5 Jun 1880)

Photographs and Images

Individual Images

• Reuben McBride and Mary Ann Anderson (wife), mid 1800s
• Reuben McBride, late 1800s (from Fillmore Territorial Statehouse)
• Reuben McBride (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)
• Reuben Augustus McBride (son)
• Reuben Augustus McBride (son) (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)

Headstones

• Headstones: Fillmore Cemetery: Reuben McBride and Mary Ann Anderson (wife)
• Headstones: Fillmore Cemetery: Reuben Augustus McBride (son); wives Harriet Columbia Williams and Sarah Hannah Williams; son Roy W. McBride

Spouse

• Mary Ann Anderson (1814-1896)

Children

• Helen Verena McBride (1833-1916)
• Harriet Eliza McBride (1834-1910)
• Reuben Augustus McBride (1836-1907)
• Mary Louisa McBride (1838-1930)
• Hyrum Roy McBride (1841-1918)
• Emma Jerutia McBride (1843-1884)
• John Newton McBride (1845-1884)
• Laura Abigail McBride (1848-1876)
• Alice Melissa McBride (1853-1920)

Parents

• Daniel McBride (1766-1823)
• Abigail Mead (1770-1854)

Last update:  26 Sep 2020