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Elizabeth Harper

Elizabeth Brooks

16 December 1805—1 December 1893

Born 16 December 1805 at Weymouth, Dorset, England.1 Daughter of Robert Harper and Rebecca (Robina).2 Married first Thomas Brooks, 10 October 1825, in Harwich, Essex, England.3 Widowed August 1851.4 Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2 May 1853.5 Emigrated from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 22 February 1854, aboard the Windermere, arriving in New Orleans 23 April 1854.6  Married second Williams W. Camp, 22 December 1854, in Salt Lake City.7 Divorced 5 April 1856.8 Married third Daniel Hanmer Wells, 5 July 1871; sister wife of Emmeline B. Wells.9 Socialized with Emmeline B. Wells on various occasions.10 Visited by Emmeline B. Wells just prior to her death.11 Died 1 December 1893 in Salt Lake City.12 Emmeline B. Wells helped prepare her body for burial.13

Footnotes

  1. 1 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149516, vol. G, p. 341, 5 July 1871, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (FamilySearch Library hereafter cited as FSL).

  2. 2 “Elizabeth Harper,” 5 Jan. 1906, Dorset Baptisms, Find My Past database, www.findmypast.com; Salt Lake Co., UT, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139830, vol. 1890–1894, p. 88, death record no. 3593, 1 Dec. 1893, familysearch.org; Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 40, 6 Nov. 1855, FSL; Church of England, Parish Registers and Poor Law Records for St. Michael’s Church, Lewes, 1522–1881, DGS 4427513, Baptisms, p. 9, 26 June 1803, familysearch.org.

  3. 3 “Elizabeth Harper,” 10 Oct. 1825, p. 58, Essex Marriages and Banns, 1537–1935, Find My Past database, www.findmypast.com; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, DGS 4356127, Saint Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, St. Matthew, England, enumeration dist. 1B, p. 26, familysearch.org.

  4. 4 “Thomas Brooks,” 22 Aug. 1851, National Burial Index for England and Wales, Find My Past database, findmypast.com.

  5. 5 Endowment House Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884, microfilm 1149524, vol. B, p. 40, 6 Nov. 1855, FSL.

  6. 6 Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, Financial Accounts, 1849–1886, Ledger B, p. 24, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (Church History Library hereafter cited as CHL); European Mission, Emigration Records, 1849–1925, Book C, 1854–1855, 34, 40, CHL; “Foreign Intelligence,” Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star (Liverpool, England), 3 June 1854, 16:345. 

  7. 7 Utah, Salt Lake County, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1968, DGS 5293951, 5 Apr. 1856, fd. 139, familysearch.org; Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 183380, vol. A34, p. 7, 22 Dec. 1854, FSL. 

  8. 8 Utah, Salt Lake County, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1968, DGS 5293951, 5 Apr. 1856, fd. 139, familysearch.org.

  9. 9 Endowment House Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889, microfilm 1149516, vol. G, p. 341, 5 July 1871, FSL; “Wells, Emmeline Blanch Woodward,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, vol. 4 (Andrew Jenson Memorial Association, 1936), 199. 

  10. 10 Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 15 Aug. 1874; 16 Dec. 1874; 10 Feb. 1875; 9 Sept. 1875; 13 Oct 1888, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.

  11. 11 Wells, Diary, 30 Nov. 1893.

  12. 12 Salt Lake Co., UT, Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139830, vol. 1890–1894, p. 88, death record no. 3593, 1 Dec. 1893, familysearch.org; Wells, Diary, 2 Dec. 1893.

  13. 13 Wells, Diary, 3 Dec. 1893.