Ellen Carter

Ellen Carter Burghardt Aurner

16 November 1827—14 June 1897

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

See “Carter Burghardt Aurner, Ellen,” or “Carter, Ellen Benbow.”

Born in Addison County, Vermont; daughter of Lydia Ames and Jared Carter. Died at Cortland, DeKalb County, Illinois. 1 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

1 Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT: Lyman De Platt, 1980), 76. Lyndon W. Cook, comp., Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages, 1839–1845 (Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994), 106. 1850 U.S. census, DeKalb, DeKalb Co., Illinois, p. 380B, Ellen Burghardt; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 104. 1870 U.S. census, DeKalb, DeKalb Co., Illinois, p. 389B, Ellen Burghardt; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 215. 1880 U.S. census, Kingston, DeKalb Co., Illinois, p. 104B, Ellen Aurner; NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 202. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Sept. 2015). Portrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885), 403. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Feb. 2016), Ellen Carter LC59-CRK . “Died,” Saints’ Herald, Sept. 29, 1897, 628.