1 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 1893
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.