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Sophia Whitaker Taylor

21 April 1825—27 February 18871

Born at Blakedown, Worcestershire, England; daughter of Sophia Turner and Thomas Whitaker.2 Baptized in England, 1840.3 Immigrated to the United States, circa 1847.4 Married John Taylor as a plural wife, 1847; seven children.5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847.6 Settled in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward.7 Participated in the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, as early as 1856.8 Served on the finance committee for Deseret Hospital.9 Died at Salt Lake City.10 (See Document 2.3, 4.11)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Sister S. W. Taylor,” Woman’s Exponent 15, no. 19 (Mar. 1, 1887): 148. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 213 (1887), Sophia Taylor; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Feb. 2015); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. 2 “Sister S. W. Taylor,” 148. Florence T. Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” typescript, n.d. [196-?], CHL.

  3. 3 “Sister S. W. Taylor,” 149. Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1.

  4. 4 Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1.

  5. 5 Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1–2. Emerson Roy West, Latter-day Prophets: Their Lives, Teachings, and Testimonies with Profiles of Their Wives (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 1997), 119.

  6. 6 “Sophia Whitaker Taylor,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  7. 7 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 204, Sophia Taylor; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  8. 8 “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21.

  9. 9 “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.

  10. 10 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Sophia Taylor. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Feb. 2015), Sophia Taylor; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Sophia Whitaker KWJC-LF7.