Elizabeth Anderson Howard

12 July 1823 — 12 March 1893

1 Born at Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland; daughter of Lucretia Ward and Robert Anderson. 2 Married William Howard, June 9, 1841; ten children. 3 Baptized, 1851. 4 Immigrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1853; lived in the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward. 5 Moved to Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory; served as secretary of the Big Cottonwood Ward Relief Society, 1867–1868, and as president, circa 1871–1890. 6 Accompanied husband on a mission to England, 1868–1869. 7 Appointed counselor to Mary Isabella Horne in the General Retrenchment Association, 1871. 8 Served on the Central Grain Committee, 1876. 9 Appointed secretary of the Salt Lake Stake Relief Society, 1877. 10 Served as chair of the Deseret Hospital visiting committee, 1882–1884, and as assistant secretary and treasurer, 1884–1893. 11 Served as president of the Salt Lake County Woman Suffrage Association, 1891–1892. 12 Died at Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah Territory; buried at Salt Lake City. 13 (See Document 3.25, 4.4, 4.11, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Elizabeth Howard; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877), 461. “Death of Elizabeth Howard,” Deseret News, Mar. 18, 1893, 23.

  2. [2] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 461. “Elizabeth Howard,” Woman’s Exponent 21, no. 18 (Mar. 15, 1893), 140. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Elizabeth Anderson LC8F-DJ5 .

  3. [3] Augusta Joyce Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, A Book of Biographical Sketches to Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham & Co., 1884), 46. “Death of Elizabeth Howard,” 3. “Elizabeth Howard,” 140. “Family Tree,” database, Elizabeth Anderson and William Howard KWV7-4H1 .

  4. [4] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 462. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 46.

  5. [5] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 46. “Elizabeth Howard,” 140. “Death of Elizabeth Howard,” 3.

  6. [6] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 46. “Elizabeth Howard,” 140.

  7. [7] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 46–47.

  8. [8] “F.R. Society Reports,” Woman’s Exponent 1, no. 16 (Jan. 15, 1873): 122. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 463. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 47.

  9. [9] “General Meeting of Central and Ward Committees,” Woman’s Exponent 5, no. 13 (Dec. 1, 1876): 99.

  10. [10] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 47. “Elizabeth Howard,” 140.

  11. [11] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2. “Elizabeth Howard,” 140.

  12. [12] “Elizabeth Howard,” 140. “Death of Elizabeth Howard,” 23.

  13. [13] “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Elizabeth Howard. “Death of Elizabeth Howard,” 23.