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Elizabeth Davis Goldsmith Brackenbury Durfee (Durphy) Lott

11 March 1791—16 December 1876

Born at Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York; daughter of Abigail Reeve and Gilbert Davis. Married Gilbert Goldsmith, 1811; two children. 1 Widowed, 1811. 2 Married Joseph Blanchett Brackenbury, circa 1818; five children. 3 Baptized, 1831. Widowed, 1832. 4 Married Jabez Durfee (Durphy), 1834; later separated or divorced. 5 Moved to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, circa 1835; to Daviess County, Missouri, December 1837; to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, 1838; and to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois, 1839. Identified in some sources as a plural wife of Joseph Smith. 6 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its second meeting, 1842. 7 Married Cornelius Lott as a plural wife, 1846. 8 Moved to Salt Lake City, 1855; to De Kalb County, Missouri, 1857; back to Salt Lake City, 1858; to Washington, De Kalb County, by 1860; to Denver, circa 1862; to San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California, 1865; back to Salt Lake City, 1868; and to White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas, by 1870. Baptized into the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1869. Died at White Cloud. 9 (See Document 1.2)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Elizabeth Davis LC3N-5MD. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 255.

  2. 2 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 255. “Family Tree,” database, Gilbert Goldsmith LCRT-S7S.

  3. 3 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 255. “Family Tree,” database, Elizabeth Davis LC3N-5MD.

  4. 4 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 257. “Family Tree,” database, Joseph Blanchett Brackenbury KLYJ-JVQ.

  5. 5 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 264.

  6. 6 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 260–261.

  7. 7 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 24, 1842.

  8. 8 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 264.

  9. 9 See “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (http://josephsmithpapers.org/reference, accessed Apr. 2014), Elizabeth Davis Lott. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 254–270.