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Elizabeth Cooper Pixton

8 February 1819—20 March 1904

1 Born at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England; daughter of Charlotte Rigley and George Cooper. 2 Married Robert Pixton, 1839; ten children. 3 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Champion, 1843; migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 4 Lived at Salt Lake City. 5 Served as a visiting committee member in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, 1856; served as president of the Taylorsville Relief Society, after 1878. 6 Died at Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah. 7 (See Document 2.3)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 351/235 (1904), Elizabeth C. Pixton. “Another Pioneer Gone: Mrs. Elizabeth Pixton of Taylorsville Died After a Brief Illness,” Deseret Evening News, Mar. 21, 1904, [1].

  2. 2 Utah death certificate, file no. 351/235. Robert Pixton, autobiography, manuscript, ca. 1870, p. 18, CHL.

  3. 3 Pixton, autobiography, 18. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Elizabeth Cooper KWV3-GVF.

  4. 4 “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Elizabeth Pixton; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “Elizabeth Cooper Pixton,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  5. 5 “Another Pioneer Gone,” [1].

  6. 6 “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21. “Another Pioneer Gone,” [1].

  7. 7 Utah death certificate, file no. 351/235. “Another Pioneer Gone,” [1].