Francis McDonald was born on 17 September 1851 in Middleton, Lintrathen, Angus, Scotland. He was the son of William McDonald and Christina Wallace. Francis married Zenobia Anderson, daughter of Robert Anderson and Dinah Mary Murray, on 22 August 1870 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. Francis and Zenobia had nine children. Zenobia was born on 22 May 1847 in Carlow, Ireland and died on 13 August 1904 in Big Cottonwood, Utah. Francis also married Rozella...

Edward Stevenson (1820-1897), of English lineage, was born at Gilbraltar and immigrated (with his parents and their family) from Gilbraltar to Albany, New York, later moving to land near Pontiac, Michigan. Edward became a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, moved to Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah. Descendants lived in Utah and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry of Emily Electa Williams in New England, New York and...

William McDonald (1822-1910), the father of Francis McDonald, married Christina Wallace in 1844 and, as converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they immigrated from Scotland to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. Ancestors and descendants of Francis McDonald and his two wives, Zenobia Anderson McDonald, and Emily Rosella Stevenson McDonald, lived throughout the United States.