Elizabeth Brotherton Pratt

1816– 1897

Born in Manchester, Lancashire, England; baptized, 1840; moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, 1841; married Parley P. Pratt as plural wife, 1843; immigrated to Utah, 1847; accompanied Parley P. Pratt on a mission to San Francisco, California, in 1854–1855; spent last years of her life at Salt Lake City. (See Coleman, Wives and Daughters of the Pratt Pioneers of Utah, 92; Proctor and Proctor, Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, 634; Givens and Grow, Parley P. Pratt, 293, 297; “Parley P. Pratt—His Twelve Wives,” in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 17:212–13; Lyman, Payne, and Ellsworth, No Place to Call Home, 567; GQC journal, Aug. 12, 14, 1854.)