Born in Bedfordshire, England; baptized in England in 1842; immigrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1843; married Elias Smith in Nauvoo, 1845; immigrated to Salt Lake Valley with her husband and daughter, Emily Jane, in 1851; settled and later died in Salt Lake City. (See Jenson, BE, 1:722; “Passed from Earth,” Deseret Evening News, Apr. 3, 1896; GQC journal, July 21, 1852.)