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Philinda Clark Eldredge Merrick (Myrick) Knight Keeler

2 August 1809—9 July 1852

1 Born at Weybridge, Addison County, Vermont; daughter of Frances Goodell and Abner Eldredge. 2 Married first Levi Newton Merrick (Myrick), 1827; four children. 3 Baptized, circa 1833. 4 Widowed during the attack at Hawn’s Mill on Shoal Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838. 5 Settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1840. 6 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842. 7 Married second Vinson Knight as a plural wife, circa 1842; widowed, 1842. 8 Married third Daniel Hutchinson Keeler, 1846; two children. 9 Lived at St. Louis, circa 1847–1852. 10 Began migration to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852; died en route near Fort Laramie, unorganized U.S. territory. 11 (See Document 1.2, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Philinda Clark Eldredge KWJD-N8B. A patriarchal blessing for Philinda Myrick [sic], March 24, 1852, lists her birth year as 1807; see Elaine Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” typescript, 2001, p. 1, 12, [17], FHL. James W. Bay journal, manuscript, July 9, 1852, CHL.

  2. 2 “Family Tree,” database, Philinda Clark Eldredge. Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” [17]. Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings 1843–1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book Co., 2004), 207–208.

  3. 3 “Family Tree,” database, Philinda Clark Eldredge and Levi Newton Myrick KWVS-N4N. Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” 3. Lisle G. Brown, comp., Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), 204n168.

  4. 4 Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” 4.

  5. 5 Ibid., 5–6. Enice Ensign Nelsen, biographical sketch of Paul Earnest Kofford, 1979, box 1, fol. 51, in Biographical Sketches Relating to Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 2003–2012, CHL.

  6. 6 Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” 8.

  7. 7 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.

  8. 8 Brown, comp., Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 175, 204 n.168. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 208n2. Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 369. “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/reference/people, accessed Dec. 2014), Vinson Knight.

  9. 9 Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages 1839–1845 (Orem, UT: Grandin Book Co., 1994), 103. “Family Tree,” database, Philinda Clark Eldredge and Daniel Hutchinson Keeler KWJD-N81.

  10. 10 Sheri Eardley Slaughter, “‘Meet Me in St. Louie’: An Index of Early Latter-day Saints Associated with St. Louis, Missouri,” Nauvoo Journal 10, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 80.

  11. 11 “Philinda Clark Myrick,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023). Bolster, “Levi Newton Myrick and Philinda Clark Eldredge,” 12.