Agnes Steele Park

April 3, 1827–February 21, 1896

1 Born at Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland; daughter of Jenette Alexander and John Steele. 2 Baptized in Scotland, circa 1840. 3 Married Hamilton G. Park, April 1843; ten children. 4 Immigrated to the United States, 1850. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 6 Settled at Salt Lake City. 7 Appointed a teacher in the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward Relief Society, 1868. 8 Died at Salt Lake City. 9 (See Document 3.7)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Obituary. Agnes Steele Park,” Deseret Evening News, Feb. 24, 1896, 6. “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Agnes Steele KWJC-GDJ.

  2. [2] Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Co., 1913), 1085. International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1998), 2:2238. “Ancestral File,” database, Agnes Steele.

  3. [3] “Obituary,” 6. Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, 2:2238.

  4. [4] Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, 2:2238. Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, 1085.

  5. [5] “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Agnes S. Park; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000).

  6. [6] “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Agnes S. Park; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “Agnes Steele Park,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2023. 

  7. [7] “Obituary,” 6. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 13, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 181, Agnes Park; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 13314.

  8. [8] Thirteenth Ward Relief Society minutes, Apr. 18, 1868, Relief Society minutes and records, vol. 1, 1868–1898, Thirteenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake [Ensign Stake], 1868–1906, CHL.

  9. [9] “Obituary,” 6. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Dec. 2014), memorial no. 90672238, Agnes Steele Park; Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 5, 2016), Agnes Steele KWJC-GDJ.