Those who attended the last reunion will recall that Boyd prepared a presentation for us entitled "The
Cardons In The Mexican Colonies" (click the highlighted title to see the
slides from the presentation). From that presentation, we discussed
placing grave markers on unmarked graves in Mexico.
Our family database shows the following individuals related to the Cardon
line that died in Mexico:
Louis Philippe Cardon - son of Philippe Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn.
He was born 9 Mar 1832 in Prarostino, Torino, Italy and died 9 Apr 1911 in
Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Joseph Samuel Cardon - son of Louis Philippe
Cardon and Susette Stalé. He was born 9 Jan 1858 in Ogden, Weber, Utah
and died 26 Sep 1908 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Selenia Mesenile Walker - wife of Joseph Samuel
Cardon. She was born 4 Feb 1855 in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah and died
6 Oct 1906 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Leonard Jesse Cardon - son of Joseph Samuel
Cardon and Selenia Mesenile Walker. He was born 6 Jun 1887 in
Colonia Juarez, Mexico and died young.
Eugene William Cardon - son of Joseph
Samuel Cardon and Selenia Mesenile Walker. He was born 3 Sep 1889
in Colonia Juarez, Mexico and died in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Mansel Lorenzo Cardon - son of Jospeh
Samuel Cardon and Selenia Mesenile Walker. He was born 10 Sep 1895
and died in 1904, in Mexico
James Ellis Cardon son of Joseph Samuel
Cardon and Cornelia Woods Van Dam. He was born 25 Sep 1884 in
Taylor, Apache, Arizona and died in 1885 in Mexico.
Emanuel Philip Cardon - son of Louis Philippe
Cardon and Susette Stalé. He was born 29 Jan 1859, Ogden, Weber, Utah
and died 12 Dec 1927 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Ameila Marie Merrick - wife of Emanuel Philip
Cardon. She was born 13 Feb 1859 in Ogden, Weber, Utah and died 10 Feb
1933 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Ernest Cardon - son of Emanuel Philip
Cardon and Amelia Marie Merrick. He was born in Apr 1897 in
Colonia Dublán and died 1 Jul 1897.
Paul Cardon - son of Louis Paul Cardon and
Ellen Clymena Sanders. He was born 23 Apr 1900 and died 23 Apr
1900 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Irene Cardon - daughter of Louis Paul
Cardon and Ellen Clymena Sanders. She was born 23 Apr 1900 and
died 23 Apr 1900 in Colonia Dublán, Mexico.
Marriner Sanders Cardon - son of Louis Paul Cadon and Ellen Clymena Sanders. He was born 21 Oct 1906 in
Colonia Dublán, Mexico and died 2 Jan 1909.
Louie Cardon - daughter of Louis Paul Cardon and
Edith Jemima Done. He was born 23 Dec 1901 in Colonia Dublán,
Mexico and died 29 Sep 1902.
Eva Cardon - daughter of Louis Paul Cardon
and Edith Jemima Done. She was born 5 Nov 1911 in Colonia Dublán,
Mexico and died 5 Jun 1912.
Jesse Leo Cardon - son of Jesse Leo Cardon and Frances Maude
Farnsworth was born 29 Dec 1913 and died 9 Feb 1928
in Colonia Dublán.
Franklin Moses Cardon - son of Jesse Leo Cardon and Frances Maud
Farnsworth was born 27 Oct
1920. Franklin died 17 Sep 1927.
Others of interest include:
The father-in-law of Jesse Leo Cardon, Albert
Stephen Farnsworth was born in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois on the 22nd of
May 1844 and died in Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico on 28 Nov 1904.
Alma Platte Spilsbury, the father-in-law of
Eugene Ernest Taylor (son of Ernest Guy Taylor and Selina Verminnie Cardon).
Alma was born 5 Aug 1850 at Platte River, Saunders, Nebraska. He died
in Colonia Juarez on 12 Jun 1920.
Mary Jane Redd, the mother-in-law of Eugene
Ernest Taylor, was born 27 Apr 1858 in Spanish Fork, Utah. She died
7 Jul 1945 in Colonia Juarez.
Andrew Christiansen Jensen, the father-in-law
of Lester Leon Cardon, was born 20 Jul 1856 in Osterby, Aarlus, Denmark.
He died 1 Aug 1908 in Colonia Diaz.
Emily Thomas Burrell, the mother-in-law of
Lester LaVon Cardon, was born 18 Dec 1878 in Sheffield, York, England and
died 14 Oct 1970 in Colonia Juarez.
Ernest Leander Taylor, the father-in-law of
Selina Verminnie Cardon, was born 8 Aug 1852 in San Bernardino, Los
Angeles, California and died 7 Nov 1917 in Colonia Juarez.
Isaac Washington Pierce Jr., the father-in-law
of Louis Leander Cardon, was born 22 Aug 1839 in Jacksonville, Morgan,
Illinois and died 21 Aug 1906 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Nathan Harris Terry, the father-in-law of
Emanuel Alonzo Cardon, was born 23 Feb 1949 in Carterville, Pottawattamie,
Iowa and died 4 Nov 1902 in Colonia Dublán.
William Carrol McClellan, the father-in-law of
Joseph Samuel Cardon, was born 12 May 1828 in Shelbyville, Bedford,
Tennessee and died 28 Apr 1916 in Colonia Juarez.
Lycurgas Wilson and his wife Lois Ann Stevens
also died in Colonia Juarez. She died 16 Sep 1905 (or 1904). He
died 1 Apr 1911. The are the maternal grandparents of Lucinda Hurst
who married Joseph Elmer Cardon.
Philip Hurst, the paternal grandfather of
Lucinda Hurst, also died in Colonia Dublán on the 14th of July, 1901.
He was born on the 15th of September, 1836, in Frimley, Surrey County,
England.
