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Agnes Cross

Agness Douglass, Agnes Cross Douglass

6 April 1816—5 September 1905

Emmeline B. Wells

Born 6 Apr. 1816 in Carmoney, Co. Antrim, Ireland.1 Daughter of John Cross and Margaret Sarah McCune.2 Baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 29 Mar. 1842.3 Married William Douglass, Oct. 1842, in Belfast, Co. Antrim; eight children.4 Immigrated to the U.S., arriving in New Orleans, 11 Nov. 1844.5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, arriving 24 Sept. 1848.6 Moved to Payson, Utah Co., Utah Territory, 1858.7 Served in the Payson Relief Society for twenty-five years, beginning as a counselor, 7 May 1868.8 EBW arrived at Agnes’s home for the Payson Relief Society conference, 7 Nov. 1881.9 Member of the committee that authored the Memorial of the Mormon Women of Utah to the President and the Congress of the United States, 6 Apr. 1886.10 Visited EBW and accompanied her to visit Eliza R. Snow, 7 Apr. 1887; received a telegraph from EBW about Eliza R. Snow’s passing, 5 Dec. 1887.11 Visited with EBW in Salt Lake City and in Payson, 1888–1891.12 Died 5 Sept. 1905 in Payson.13

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

14 Born at Carnmoney, County Antrim, Ireland; daughter of Margaret Sarah McCune and John Cross. 15 Baptized at Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, 1842. 16 Married William Douglass, October 14, 1842, at Belfast, County Antrim; eight children. 17 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Norfolk, 1844; settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 18 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848; settled at Salt Lake City. 19 Joined the Relief Society in Salt Lake City, 1854. 20 Moved to Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory, 1858. 21 Appointed counselor in the Payson Relief Society presidency, 1868. 22 Died at Payson. 23 (See Document 4.7)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, 20 Feb. 1851–24 Apr. 1854, p. 36, line 924A, Agnes Douglas, 23 Mar. 1852, microfilm 1255545, DGS 7455862 (restricted access), FHL. Church of Ireland, Parish Church of Carmoney, Parish Registers, 1788–1845, Baptisms, 1788–1840, Agnes Cross, microfilm 990097, DGS 7811683, image 67/836, FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 23 Feb. 2021), Agnes Cross Douglass (KWVQ-LWS). 

  2. 2 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, 20 Feb. 1851–24 Apr. 1854, p. 36, line 924A, Agnes Douglas, 23 Mar. 1852, microfilm 1255545, DGS 7455862 (restricted access), FHL. 1841 British Census, Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, p. 34, John Cross, Agnes Cross. “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1906, 38. 

  3. 3 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, 20 Feb. 1851–24 Apr. 1854, p. 36, line 924A, Agnes Douglas, 23 Mar. 1852, microfilm 1255545, DGS 7455862 (restricted access), FHL. Payson Ward, Utah Stake, Record of Members, 1861, pp. 4–5, LR 6814 25, images 3–4/45, CHL. 

  4. 4 “Agnes Cross by Agnes Cross,” in “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 23 Feb. 2021), Agnes Cross Douglass (KWVQ-LWS), Memories. 1850 U.S. Census, Great Salt Lake, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 90, Agness Douglass. 1860 U.S. Census, Payson, Utah Co., Utah Territory, p. 27, Agnes Douglass.

  5. 5 “Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1820–1902,” database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com, accessed 9 May 2021), William and Agnes Douglass; Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests, National Archives, Washington, DC.

  6. 6 “Agnes Douglass,” Pioneer Database (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 19 Feb. 2021). 

  7. 7 Payson Ward, Utah Stake, Record of Members, 1861, pp. 4–5, LR 6814 25, images 3–4/45, CHL. 

  8. 8 Payson Ward, Utah Stake, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1850–1914, LR 6814 2, image 77/117, CHL. Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, vol. 4 (Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon, 1904), 469.  

  9. 9 EBW, Diary, 7 Nov. 1881.

  10. 10 Memorial of the Mormon Women of Utah to the President and the Congress of the United States (Washington, DC: Publisher not identified, 1886), 8.

  11. 11 EBW, Diary, 7 Apr. and 5 Dec. 1887. 

  12. 12 EBW, Diary, 6 Apr. 1888; 11 Sept. 1890; 14 and 21 May 1891; 6 Apr. 1894. 

  13. 13 “Utah State Archives Indexes,” database and images, Utah State Archives (https://archives.utah.gov/research/indexes, accessed 10 Feb. 2021), Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death Certificates, Series 81448, file no. 260/242 (1906), Agnes C. Douglas. “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1906, 38. 

  14. 14 “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 260/242 (1906), Agnes C. Douglass.

  15. 15 Utah death certificate, file no. 260/242. Agnes Cross Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Kate B. Carter, comp., Our Pioneer Heritage (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1970), 13:326–328.

  16. 16 Tullidge’s Quarterly Magazine 3, no. 4 (Apr. 1885): 446. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Agnes Cross KWVQ-LWS.

  17. 17 Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 13:326–328. “Family Tree,” database, Agnes Cross.

  18. 18 “Mormon Migration,” database, 1840–1932, Mormon Migration (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed Oct. 2014), Agnes Douglass; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 13:326–328.

  19. 19 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014), Agnes Cross Douglass. “Death of Mrs. Douglass,” Salt Lake Herald, Sept. 7, 1906, 8. Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 13:326–328.

  20. 20 Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 13:326–328.

  21. 21 Douglass, autobiographical sketch, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage, 13:326–328. “Death of Mrs. Douglass,” 8.

  22. 22 Madoline Cloward Dixon, Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah (Provo, UT: Press Publishing, 1974), 21.

  23. 23 Utah Death Certificate, File No. 260/242. “Death of Mrs. Douglass,” 8.