Born at Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee; daughter of Armela and William Shanks.2 Baptized, 1840 or 1841.3 Married Jesse W. Berry; eleven children.4 Widowed at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1844.5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849.6 Helped settle Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah Territory.7 Served as first counselor in the Relief Society presidency at Spanish Fork.8 Moved to Kanarraville, Iron County, Utah Territory, circa 1862.9 Died at Richfield, Sevier County, Utah Territory.10 (See Document 2.5)
Armelia Shanks Berry
24 January 1804—10 January 18931
Footnotes
Footnotes
1 “Death of Armela Berry,” Deseret News, Jan. 2, 1893, [2]. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL.
2 Ibid.
3 “Death of Armela Berry,” [2].
4 “Death of Armela Berry,” [2]. International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, “Armelia Shanks Berry,” Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude ([Salt Lake City]: Publishers Press, 1998), 1:241.
5 Lyndon W. Cook, comp., Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages 1839–1845 (Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994), 7.
6 “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), Armelia Shanks Berry.
7 Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, 1:241.
8 Priscilla Merriman Evans, Record Book, ca. 1907[?], p. 52; Emma Priscilla Evans Little, Papers, 1870–1941, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
9 “Death of Armela Berry,” [2]. Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, 1:241.