Born 16 December 1805 at Weymouth, Dorset, England.[1] Daughter of Robert Harper and Rebecca (Robina).[2] Married first Thomas Brooks, 10 October 1825, in Harwich, Essex, England.[3] Widowed August 1851.[4] Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2 May 1853.[5] Emigrated from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 22 February 1854, aboard the Windermere, arriving in New Orleans 23 April 1854.[6] Married second Williams W. Camp, 22 December 1854, in Salt Lake City.[7] Divorced 5 April 1856.[8] Married third Daniel Hanmer Wells, 5 July 1871; sister wife of Emmeline B. Wells.[9] Socialized with Emmeline B. Wells on various occasions.[10] Visited by Emmeline B. Wells just prior to her death.[11] Died 1 December 1893 in Salt Lake City.[12] Emmeline B. Wells helped prepare her body for burial.[13]
[1] Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149516, vol. G, p. 341, 5 July 1871, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).
[2] “Elizabeth Harper,” 5 Jan. 1906, Dorset Baptisms, Find My Past database, www.findmypast.com; Salt Lake Co., UT, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139830, vol. 1890–1894, p. 88, death record no. 3593, 1 Dec. 1893, familysearch.org; Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 40, 6 Nov. 1855, FSL; Church of England, Parish Registers and Poor Law Records for St. Michael’s Church, Lewes, 1522–1881, DGS 4427513, Baptisms, p. 9, 26 June 1803, familysearch.org.
[3] “Elizabeth Harper,” 10 Oct. 1825, p. 58, Essex Marriages and Banns, 1537–1935, Find My Past database, www.findmypast.com; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, DGS 4356127, Saint Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, St. Matthew, England, enumeration dist. 1B, p. 26, familysearch.org.
[4] “Thomas Brooks,” 22 Aug. 1851, National Burial Index for England and Wales, Find My Past database, findmypast.com.
[5] Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 40, 6 Nov. 1855, FSL.
[6] Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, Financial Accounts, 1849–1886, Ledger B, p. 24, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); European Mission, Emigration Records, 1849–1925, Book C, 1854–1855, 34, 40, CHL; “Foreign Intelligence,” Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (Liverpool, England), 3 June 1854, 16:345.
[7] Utah, Salt Lake County, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1968, DGS 5293951, 5 Apr. 1856, fd. 139, familysearch.org; Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183380, vol. A34, p. 7, 22 Dec. 1854, FSL.
[8] Utah, Salt Lake County, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1968, DGS 5293951, 5 Apr. 1856, fd. 139, familysearch.org.
[9] Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149516, vol. G, p. 341, 5 July 1871, FSL; “Wells, Emmeline Blanch Woodward,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4 (Andrew Jenson Memorial Association, 1936), 199.
[10] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 15 Aug. 1874; 16 Dec. 1874; 10 Feb. 1875; 9 Sept. 1875; 13 Oct 1888, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[11] Wells, Diary, 30 Nov. 1893.
[12] Salt Lake Co., UT, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139830, vol. 1890–1894, p. 88, death record no. 3593, 1 Dec. 1893, familysearch.org; Wells, Diary, 2 Dec. 1893.
[13] Wells, Diary, 3 Dec. 1893.