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Maria Riley

Mary Mariah Riley Burns Terry

5 May 1813—1858

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

Member of the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, 1857. Possibly the wife of William Riley. 1 (See Document 2.3)

Born in Bermuda; daughter of Julia Harris and Richard Riley. Possibly died at Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory. 2 (See Document 1.2)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Carol Holindrake Nielsen, The Salt Lake City 14th Ward Album Quilt, 1857: Stories of the Relief Society Women and Their Quilt (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004), 22. 1856 Utah Territorial Census of Great Salt Lake, 14th Ward, Utah Territory, p. 20, Maria Riley, CHL.

  2. 2 “Maria Terry,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1971 (closed to research), CHL. 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: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 196, Mary Maria Terry. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed May 2016), Mary Maria Riley LKVY-P6X. 1850 U.S. census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, n.p., Mary Terry, NARA. Nora Lund, ed., Sketch of the Life of Jacob ER Terry, Freepages (https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~goodoldhg/genealogy/terry/terrymain.html, accessed Sept. 2014).