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Female Hester VAN WAGONER Click to view Hester VAN WAGONER in the family tree

Hester was born on April 28th, 1847 in Honey Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa.  Hester's father was John Halmagh VAN WAGENER and her mother was Clarissa TAPPEN.  Her paternal grandparents were Halmagh Johannes VAN WAGONER and Mary (Polly) VAN HOUTEN. She had six brothers and three sisters, named Ephraim, John, William, Henry, Orson, George, Ann, Cynthia and Clarissa.  She was the second oldest of the ten children. She had four half-brothers and six half-sisters, named David, John Alfred, Parley Pratt, Frank Douglas, Mary, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Eva, Estella Jane, Lilly Maud and Maude Lily.  She died at the age of 1 in April 1848 in Pottawattamie, Iowa.

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