1 Born in County Down, Ireland; daughter of Elizabeth Scott and John Cannon. 2 Married first John Miller, circa 1840. 3 Housed Latter-day Saint missionaries proselytizing in Ireland. 4 Widowed, 1865. 5 Immigrated to the United States and settled at Nephi, Juab County, Utah Territory, by 1867. 6 Married second Jacob G. Bigler as a plural wife, October 10, 1867. 7 Member of the Nephi Relief Society. 8 Died at Nephi. 9 (See Document 3.19)
Eliza Cannon Miller Bigler
24 May 1817—May 1895
Footnotes
Footnotes
1 Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 15026615, Eliza Cannon Miller; Nephi City Cemetery, Nephi, UT.
3 Find a Grave, memorial no. 15026615.
4 Franklin Keith Brough, Freely, I Gave: The Life of Jacob G. Bigler (Wichita, KS: Grit Printing Co., 1958), 133, 153. Find a Grave, memorial no. 15026615.
5 Find a Grave, memorial no. 15026615.
6 Brough, Freely, I Gave, 153. 1870 U.S. census, Nephi, Juab Co., Utah Territory, p. 326, Eliza C. Bigler; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1610.
7 Brough, Freely, I Gave, 153.
8 Nephi Ward Relief Society, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 1868–1878, Nephi Ward, Juab Stake, CHL.