Amy Experience Hancock Hancock

May 12, 1835–August 25, 1921

1 Born at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri; daughter of Experience Wheeler Rudd and Joseph Hancock. 2 Baptized, circa 1846–1847. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1851. 4 Lived at Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory, and at Payson, Utah County. 5 Married George Washington Hancock, 1852; twelve children. 6 Served as Relief Society counselor and Primary president in the Payson First Ward. 7 Died at Payson. 8 (See Document 4.7)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 385/522 (1921), Amy Hancock.
  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 385/522. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Amy Experience Hancock K2M3-2D7 . Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1914), 2:351.
  3. [3] “Family Tree,” database, Amy Experience Hancock.
  4. [4] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), Amy Experience Hancock.
  5. [5] “Former Nauvoo Resident Dies at Home in Payson,” Deseret News, Aug. 27, 1921, 3. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:352.
  6. [6] Along with her twelve biological children, Hancock also raised two stepchildren and an American Indian foster daughter. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:352. “Former Nauvoo Resident Dies at Home in Payson,” 3. Madoline Cloward Dixon, Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah (Provo, UT: Press Publishing Co., 1974), 95.
  7. [7] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 2:352.
  8. [8] Utah death certificate, file no. 385/522. “Former Nauvoo Resident Dies at Home in Payson,” 3.