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Jane Silverthorn Law

2 April 1815—8 September 1882

1 Born at York, Upper Canada; daughter of Mary Anderson and Thomas Silverthorn. 2 Married William Law, 1833; eight children. 3 Baptized in Canada, 1836. 4 Migrated to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois, 1839. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its second meeting, March 24, 1842. 6 Left Nauvoo in 1844 after her husband’s excommunication from the church. 7 Settled at Shullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, 1866. 8 Died at Shullsburg. 9 (See Document 1.2, 1.6, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Maureen Carr Ward, “‘This Institution Is A Good One’: The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 17 March 1842 to 16 March 1844,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 149. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no 55623251; Jane Silverthorn Law; Evergreen Cemetery, Shullsburg, WI.

  2. 2 Frank Fremont Reed, ed., History of the Silverthorn Family (Chicago: Silverthorn Family Association, 1982), 3:1601–1602. Ward, “‘This Institution Is A Good One,’” 149.

  3. 3 “Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801–1928,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014), Jane Silverthorn and William Law, June 11, 1833; citing series MS248, reel 2, District Marriage Registers, 1801–1858, Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. Lyndon W. Cook, “William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter,” BYU Studies 22, no. 1 (Winter 1982): 47–48.

  4. 4 Cook, “William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter,” 48.

  5. 5 Ibid., 48–49.

  6. 6 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 24, 1842.

  7. 7 “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/reference/people, accessed April 2014), William Law.

  8. 8 Cook, “William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter,” 71, n.104. 1870 U.S. census, Shullsburg, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, p. 489A, Johana [sic] Law, from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1761. 1880 U.S. census, Shullsburg, Lafayette Co., Wisconsin, p. 170A, Jane Law; from NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1433; U.S. census digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014).

  9. 9 Find a Grave, memorial no. 55623251. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 4, 2016), Jane Silverthorn LW8N-ZSD.