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Ellen Sanders Kimball

11 April 1823—27 November 1871

1 Born Aagaata Ystensdatter Bake Sondrason at Tinn, Telemark, Norway; daughter of Aase Olsdatter Romersen Bakka and Ysten Sondreson.2 Immigrated to the United States, circa 1837.3 Baptized in Illinois, 1842.4 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1844.5 Married Heber C. Kimball as a plural wife, 1846; five children.6 One of only three women to migrate to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, 1847.7 Lived at Salt Lake City and in the Bear River Valley, Rich County, Utah Territory.8 Died at Salt Lake City.9 (See Document 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Sources differ on whether her birth year was 1823 or 1824, but family genealogy and cemetery records indicate 1823. Heber C. Kimball Family Association , Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, vol. 3 of Heber C. Kimball Family History ([n.p.]: Heber C. Kimball Family Association 1992), 1–2. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 82–83 (1871), Ellen Kimball; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Nov. 2014), memorial no. 65768, Ellen Sanders Kimball; Kimball-Whitney Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT. “Utah’s Three Pioneer Women,” Deseret News, Oct. 1, 1901, 11.
  2. 2 Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:1 and Family Group Record MRIN 228 (1992). “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Nov. 2014), Ellen (Aagaat) Sanders KWV9-HFZ .
  3. 3 Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:1–2. “Utah’s Three Pioneer Women,” 11.
  4. 4 “Family Tree,” database, Ellen (Aagaat) Sanders.
  5. 5 H.T.K. [Hannah Tapfield King], “Obituary,” Deseret News, Jan. 3, 1872, 8. Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:1–2.
  6. 6 Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:1–2. “Family Tree,” database, Ellen (Aagaat) Sanders.
  7. 7 Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:2. “Utah’s Three Pioneer Women,” 11.
  8. 8 Heber C. Kimball Family Association, Heber C. Kimball and Ellen Sanders, 3:3. “Utah’s Three Pioneer Women,” 11. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 18, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 272, Ellen G. [ sic ] Kimball; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. 1870 U.S. census, Kimballsville, Rich Co., Utah Territory, p. 411A, Ellen Kemball [ sic ]; from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611; U.S. census database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014).
  9. 9 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Ellen Kimball. “Obituary,” 8. “Utah’s Three Pioneer Women,” 11.