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Belinda Marden Pratt

24 December 1820—19 February 1894

1 Born at Chichester, Merrimack County, New Hampshire; daughter of Rachel Shaw and John Marden. 2 Married first Benjamin Abbot Hilton, circa 1839; divorced, circa 1844. 3 Baptized, March 1843; moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1844. 4 Married second Parley P. Pratt as a plural wife, 1844; five children. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. 6 Settled in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward; served as a Relief Society teacher, 1856–1870. 7 Moved to Fillmore, Millard County, Utah Territory, 1870. 8 Served as counselor and then president of the Fillmore Ward Relief Society; served as the first president of the Millard County Stake Relief Society. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 2.3, 4.6)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Belinda Marden Pratt, autobiography, 1884, holograph, CHL; qtd. in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, ed. Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman, vol. 1, 1775–1820 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 235. I.E.R. [Isabella E. Robinson], “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” Woman’s Exponent 38, no. 9 (Apr. 1, 1910): 70. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Jan. 2015), memorial no. 25546980, Belinda Marden Pratt; Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. 2 Pratt, autobiography, 235. I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 70.

  3. 3 Pratt, autobiography, 235–240.

  4. 4 Pratt, autobiography, 236, 238–239. I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 70.

  5. 5 Pratt, autobiography, 240. I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 70. Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985), 430.

  6. 6 “Belinda Marden Pratt,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2014.

  7. 7 “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21. I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 71.

  8. 8 I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 71.

  9. 9 I.E.R., “Brief History of a Famous Woman,” 71. Delilah Olson to the editor, “F.R. Society Reports,” Woman’s Exponent 1, no. 16 (Jan. 15, 1873): 122.

  10. 10 Find a Grave, memorial no. 25546980. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 5, 2016), Belinda Marden KWJR-T8P.