Drusilla Dorris Hendricks

February 8, 1810–May 20, 1881

1 Born in Summer County, Tennessee; daughter of Catherine Frost and William Dorris. 2 Married James Hendricks, 1827; five children. 3 Baptized, 1835. 4 Moved to Missouri, 1836; lived in Clay County, Missouri, and at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. 5 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1840. 6 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847; lived at Warm Springs, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory. 8 Moved to Richmond, Cache County, Utah Territory, 1860. 9 Died at Richmond. 10 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Drusilla D. Hendricks, reminiscences, ca. 1877, typescript, p. 1, CHL. “Family Data Collection—Individual records,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Drusilla Dorris; Edmund West, comp.
  2. [2] Drusilla D. Hendricks, reminiscences, 1. “Family Data Collection—Births,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); Edmund West, comp.
  3. [3] Hendricks, reminiscences, 3, 9, 11, 21. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Drusilla Dorris and James Hendricks (1827); citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT.
  4. [4] Hendricks, reminiscences, 6.
  5. [5] Ibid., 9.
  6. [6] Ibid., 14–15.
  7. [7] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Apr. 14, 1842.
  8. [8] Hendricks, reminiscences, 20. “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 Oct. 2014), Drusilla Dorris Hendricks. 1850 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 24A, Drusilla Hendricks; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919. Susan Easton Black, “’The Spirit of the Lord Has Buoyed Me Up’: Drusilla Dorris Hendricks (1810–1881),” in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, vol. 1, 1775–1820, ed. Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 65.
  9. [9] Hendricks, reminiscences, 21. 1860 U.S. census, Cache Co., Utah Territory, p. 592, Drusilla Hendricks; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1314.
  10. [10] “Family Data Collection—Individual records,” database, Drusilla Dorris. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 11245539, Drusilla Dorris Hendricks; Richmond City Cemetery, Richmond, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 4, 2016), Drusilla Dorris KWJD-NMR .