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Elizabeth Melvina Richardson Huffaker

28 May 1829—26 April 1911

1 Born in Coos County, New Hampshire; daughter of Erepta Melvina Wilder and Stephen Richardson. 2 Lived at Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, and at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1838–1840. 3 Married Simpson David Huffaker, 1846; fifteen children. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. 5 Settled in Salt Lake City. 6 Appointed second counselor at the organization of the Salt Lake City Seventh Ward Relief Society, 1868. 7 Died at Salt Lake City. 8 (See Document 3.3)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 627/126 (1911), Elizabeth Melvina Huffaker. “Passing Events,” Improvement Era 14, no. 8 (June, 1911): 755.

  2. 2 “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Oct. 2014, Elizabeth Melvina Richardson KWV3-YLX. “Passing Events,” 755. Utah death certificate, file no. 627/126 indicates that she was born in Vermont, with both parents born in New Hampshire.

  3. 3 “Passing Events,” 755.

  4. 4 Passing Events,” 755. “Illinois Marriages to 1850,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Simpson D. Huffaker and Elizabeth Richardson, Apr. 7, 1856; comp. Jordan Dodd. “Family Tree,” database, Elizabeth Melvina Richardson and Simpson David Huffaker KWNX-91H.

  5. 5 “Elizabeth Melvin Richardson,” Church History Biographical Database (history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023).

  6. 6 1850 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 94B, Elizabeth Huffaker; from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 7, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 117, Elizabeth M. Huffaker; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313; U.S. census digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014).

  7. 7 Seventh Ward Relief Society, Minutes, Jan. 4 and 28, 1868, vol. 1, 1848–1869, Relief Society minutes and records, 1848–1922, Seventh Ward, Pioneer Stake, CHL.

  8. 8 Utah death certificate, file no. 627/126.