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] “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 Dec. 2014), Eleanor Jane McComb McLean.
  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.