Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, May 26, 1842. 1 (See Document 1.2) Possibly “Dana, Hulda Root.”
Born at Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; daughter of Rachel Messenger and Francis Root. Died at Alden, McHenry County, Illinois. 2 (See Document 1.2)
1 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, May 26, 1842, CHL.
2 Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 311. “Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850” database and images, AmericanAncestors.org (http://americanancestors.org, accessed Dec. 2015), Huldah Root. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Mar. 2016), Hulda Root LKVY-F26. 1850 U.S. census, Alden, McHenry Co., Illinois, p. 426B, Hulda Dana; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 117. Eliza Dana Gibbs, “Eliza Dana Gibbs, 1813–1900, Autobiography,” Book of Abraham Project (http://boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/EGibbs.html, accessed Dec. 2015).