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Margaret Bentley Sanders Harrington

25 February 1805—27 December 1878

1 Born at Great Aycliffe, Durham, England; daughter of Ann Wood and Thomas Bentley Jr. 2 Married first John Saunders, 1826; one child. 3 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Tyrian, 1841. 4 Settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 5 Widowed, 1844. 6 Married second Thomas Harrington, circa 1846. 7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 8 Settled at Salt Lake City. 9 Appointed counselor to Elizabeth Murphy McLelland in the Salt Lake City Seventh Ward Relief Society, 1868. 10 Died at Salt Lake City. 11 (See Document 3.3)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” no. 2392 (1878), Margaret Harrington; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing series 21866, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (https://history.utah.gov/cemeteries, accessed Apr. 2014), Margaret Harrington.

  2. 2 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Margaret Harrington. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Margaret Bentley L4M9-X4Z.

  3. 3 “Family Tree,” database, Margaret Bentley and John Sanders L7NG-Y61.

  4. 4 “Sanders, Margaret,” Tyrian Passengers List, Liverpool to New Orleans, 21 Sept.–9 Nov. 1841, Saints by Sea database, saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu.

  5. 5 “Family Tree,” database, Margaret Bentley.

  6. 6 Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages 1839–1845 (Orem, UT: Grandin Book Co., 1994), 67.

  7. 7 “Margaret Bentley, 1804–1878,” Individual Record, Family Tree database (Ancestor ID: L4M9-X4Z), FamilySearch, accessed 16 Nov. 2023, familysearch.org. “Thomas Harrington 1789–1872,” Individual Record, Family Tree database (Ancestor ID: KWJR-TK7), FamilySearch, accessed 16 Nov. 2023, familysearch.org.

  8. 8 “Margaret Bentley,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023).

  9. 9 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 7, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 124, Margaret Harrington; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct.. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  10. 10 Seventh Ward Relief Society, Minutes, Jan. 4 and 28, 1868, vol. 1, 1848–1869, Relief Society minutes and records, 1848–1922, Seventh Ward, Pioneer Stake, CHL.

  11. 11 Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” and “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” databases, Margaret Harrington.