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Sarah Marietta Kingsley Howe Cleveland

20 October 1788—21 April 1856

1 Born at Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; daughter of Sarah Chaplin and Ebenezer Kingsley. 2 Married first John Howe, 1807; one child. 3 Widowed, 1825. 4 Married second John Alexander Cleveland, 1826; two children. 5 Lived at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1842; neighbor of Joseph and Emma Smith. 6 Identified in some sources as a plural wife of Joseph Smith. 7 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842; served as a counselor to Emma Smith. 8 Moved from Nauvoo, circa 1843. 9 Died at Plymouth, Hancock County. 10 (See Document 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 3.27, 4.4, 4.5, 4.28, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland, comps. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, 2 vols. (Hartford, CT: By the authors, 1899), 1:754. Todd M. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 287.

  2. 2 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson Memorial Association; Deseret News, 1936), 4:183.

  3. 3 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marrietta Kingsley KWJ1-4HZ and John W. Howe KGC2-CKT. LDS Church, Early Church Information File, Sarah Marietta Cleveland, cards 748–750, FHL microfilm 1750655 to reel 75; FHL microfilm 1750729, FHL/CHL.

  4. 4 “Family Tree,” database, John Howe.

  5. 5 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marrietta Kingsley KWJ1-4HZ and John Alexander Cleveland 9SMF-8P2.

  6. 6 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 277. Cleveland and Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, 1:754. Marjorie M. Woolf, “The Eighteen Charter Members of Relief Society,” Relief Society Magazine 29, no. 5 (May 1942): 304.

  7. 7 Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 277–278. Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring, “The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives,” FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 76.

  8. 8 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.

  9. 9 Sarah M. Cleveland, “To the Presidency, and Ladies of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” Times and Seasons 4, no. 12 (May 1, 1843): 187.

  10. 10 “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Sarah Marrietta Kingsley KWJ1-4HZ.