Eleanor Cannon Woodbury

1854 — 1934

Niece of GQC and oldest child of Orin and Ann Cannon Woodbury; born in Salt Lake City in March 1854; moved with her parents to southern Utah to help settle town of St. George in 1861; lived there most of her life; taught school from age thirteen until her marriage to George Frederick Jarvis in 1872; six years after her husband’s death in 1925, moved in with her daughter in Cedar City, Utah; died in Cedar City. (See Overson, George Jarvis and Joseph George De Friez Genealogy, 52–53; “Pioneer Teacher of St. George Dies,” Deseret News, Apr. 17, 1934; GQC journal, July 10, 1854.)