Elizabeth Cooper Pixton

February 8, 1819–March 20, 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] “Mormon Migration,” database, 1840–1932, Mormon Migration (http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu, accessed Jan. 2015), Elizabeth Pixton; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “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 Jan. 2015), Elizabeth Cooper Pixton.
  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].