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Athalia Rigdon Robinson

August 1821—1906

1 Born at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio; daughter of Phebe Brooks and Sidney Rigdon. 2 Married George Washington Robinson, 1837; five children. 3 Settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by 1840; lived in the Nauvoo First Ward. 4 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842. 5 Left the church with her husband, circa July 1842; later affiliated with Sidney Rigdon’s Church of Christ. 6 Moved to Friendship, Allegany County, New York, 1847. 7 Died at Friendship. 8 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Athalia Rigdon LDY3-FT5. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Jan. 2015), memorial no. 78208055, Athalia Rigdon Robinson; Maple Grove Cemetery, Friendship, NY.

  2. 2 “Family Tree,” database, Athalia Rigdon. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 1:253.

  3. 3 “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789–1994,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Athalia Rigdon and George M. [sic] Robinson, Apr. 13, 1837, p. 205. “Family Tree,” database, Athalia Rigdon and George Washington Robinson LZG7-KMC.

  4. 4 “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://josephsmithpapers.org/reference/people, accessed May 2023), George W. Robinson. Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT, 1980), 22.

  5. 5 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.

  6. 6 “People of the Time,” database, George W. Robinson.

  7. 7 “People of the Time,” database, George W. Robinson. 1850 U.S. census, Friendship, Allegany Co., New York, p. 61B, Athalia Robinson, from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 475; 1900 U.S. census, Friendship, Allegany Co., New York, p. 6B, Athalia Robinson, from NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1008; census database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015).

  8. 8 Find a Grave, memorial no. 78208055.