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Eleanor Jane McComb McLean Pratt

December 29, 1817–October 24, 1874

1 Born at Wheeling, Ohio County, Virginia; daughter of Anne Chidester and James McComb. 2 Married first Hector McLean, 1841; three children. 3 Baptized, 1854; separated from McLean soon after. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1855. 5 Married second Parley P. Pratt as a plural wife, 1855; widowed, 1857. 6 Lived in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward. 7 Died at Salt Lake City. 8 (See Document 3.13)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Steven Pratt, “Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt,” BYU Studies 15, no. 2 (Winter 1975): 225. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 10 (1874), Eleanor J. Pratt; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. [2] Pratt, “Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt,” 225. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Eleanor Jane McComb KWJR-T8B.

  3. [3] Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 361. Pratt, “Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt,” 225–226. “Family Tree,” database, Eleanor Jane McComb.

  4. [4] Pratt, “Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt,” 226. E.J. McComb to the editor, Van Buren Intelligencer (Van Buren, AR), May 18, 1857, “Dreadful Persecution of Mrs. McLean—Her Defence—Murder of P.P. Pratt,” in Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 19, no. 27 (July 4, 1857): 428–432.

  5. [5] “Eleanor Jane McComb McLean,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2014.

  6. [6] “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014), Eleanor J. Mccomb and Parley Parker Pratt; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Pratt, “Eleanor McLean and the Murder of Parley P. Pratt,” 225.

  7. [7] 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 202, Eleanor Pratt; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313; 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 14, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 657B, Elanor [sic] Pratt; from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611; U.S. census digital index and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015).

  8. [8] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Eleanor J. Pratt.