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Vilate Murray Kimball

1 June 1806—22 October 18671

Born at Florida, Montgomery County, New York; daughter of Susannah Fitch and Roswell Murray.2 Married Heber C. Kimball, 1822; ten children.3 Baptized, 1832.4 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1833; to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838–1839; to Atlas and Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, 1839; and to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1840.5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its second meeting, March 24, 1842.6 One of the first women to perform ordinances in the Nauvoo temple.7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848.8 Settled at Salt Lake City.9 Died at Salt Lake City.10 (See Document 1.2, 4.1, 4.28, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Obituary,” Deseret News [weekly], Dec. 25, 1867, 1. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Vilate Murray Kimball; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. Kiersten Olsen, “‘The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance’: Vilate Murray Kimball (1806–1867),” in Women of Faith in the Latter Days: vol. 1, 1775–1820, ed. Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 129, 131.

  2. 2 “Obituary,” 1. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance” 129. Dorothy W. Peterson, All Things Right: A Biography of Vilate Murray Kimball ([Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris Corporation, 2009), 22.

  3. 3 Peterson, All Things Right, 15. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Vilate Murray and Heber Chase Kimball, source no. 4380.000; from Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance” 129.

  4. 4 “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 18.

  5. 5 “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 62–67. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance,” 130.

  6. 6 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 24, 1842.

  7. 7 Helen Mar Whitney, “Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H.C. Kimball’s Journal,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 3 (July 1, 1883): 18. “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 142.

  8. 8 “Vilate Murray,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023).

  9. 9 “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 186. 1850 U.S. census, [no city], Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 76B, Vilats [sic] Kimball; from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919; 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 18, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 271, Volah [sic] M. Kimball; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313; U.S. census digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014).

  10. 10 “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Vilate Murray Kimball. “Millennium File,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014), Vilate Murray from Heritage Consulting, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 4, 2016), Vilate Murray Kimball L2MT-W6X.