1 Born at Wilmington, Windham County, Vermont; daughter of Miriam Smith and Joseph Marks. 2 Married Asa Works, circa 1800–1801; ten children. 3 Lived at Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont; at Aurelius, Cayuga County, New York; and at Lockport, Will County, Illinois, circa 1810–1840. 4 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by 1842. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 6 Died at Nauvoo. 7 (See Document 1.2, 1.6, first mentioned here)
Abigail Jerusha Marks Works
6 November 1781 — 14 July 1846
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 118 (1846), Nabby Works, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840–1845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois (Provo, UT: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002), 6:3929.
[2] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 118 (1846). Mary June Stephenson Hemphill, “Asa Works, Sr.: 1762–1845,” typescript, ca. 1995, p. [1], CHL. Black and Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 6:3929 .
[3] Hemphill, “Asa Works, Sr.,” [1]. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Abigail Marks and Asa Works; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT.
[4] 1810 U.S. census, Williamstown, Orange Co., Vermont, p. 401, Asa Wacks [sic]; NARA microfilm publication M252, roll 64. 1820 U.S. census, Aurelius, Cayuga Co., New York, p. 35, Asa Works; NARA microfilm publication M33, roll 68. 1830 U.S. census, Aurelius, Cayuga Co., New York, p. 177, Asa Works; NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 88. 1840 U.S. census, Lockport Precinct, Will Co., Illinois, p. 361, Asa Works; NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 73. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015).
[5] Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT: Lyman De Platt, 1980), 93.
[6] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Apr. 28, 1842.
[7] Black and Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 6:3929 . Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2015), memorial no. 44319150, Abigail Jerusha Marks Works; burial unknown. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Abigail Jerusha Marks L8QX-X91 .