Hannah Tapfield King

16 March 1807—25 September 1886

1 Born at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England; daughter of Mary Lawson and Peter Tapfield. 2 Married first Thomas Owen King, 1824; ten children. 3 Baptized in England, 1850. 4 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Golconda and migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1853. 5 Settled at Salt Lake City. 6 Married second Brigham Young as a plural wife, 1872, but continued to live in marriage with Thomas King. 7 Prolific writer of poetry, essays, and biographies, most published in the Woman’s Exponent. 8 Appointed president of the Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, 1880; served as counselor to Marinda N. Hyde in the Seventeenth Ward Relief Society presidency, 1881. 9 Appointed to the finance committee for the Deseret Hospital Association, 1882. 10 Died at Salt Lake City. 11 (See Document 3.13, 4.11)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 207 (1886), Hannah T. King; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. [2] “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Hannah T. King; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. 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), 91. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Hannah Tapfield KWJ7-3D8. Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill, and Leonard Reed, The Songstress of Dernford Dale: The Life of Poetess, Diarist and Latter-day Saint Pioneer Hannah Tapfield King (Cambridge, UK: privately printed, 2011), 25–26.

  3. [3] “Obituary of Sister Hannah T. King,” Deseret News [weekly], Sept. 29, 1886, 589. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 91. Family Tree,” database, Hannah Tapfield and Thomas Owen King Sr. KWJ7-3DD.

  4. [4] “Obituary of Sister Hannah T. King,” 589. Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 92.

  5. [5] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 93. “Mormon Migration,” database, 1840–1932, Mormon Migration (http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu, accessed Oct. 2014), Hannah King; 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 Oct. 2014), Hannah Tapfield King.

  6. [6] 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 17, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 258, Hannah King, from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313; 1880 U.S. census, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 120D, Hannah King, from NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1337; U.S. census digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014).

  7. [7] Brewerton, Gorwill, and Reed, Songstress of Dernford Dale, 133–135.

  8. [8] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 94. Brewerton, Gorwill, and Reed, Songstress of Dernford Dale, 139.

  9. [9] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 94. Brewerton, Gorwill, and Reed, Songstress of Dernford Dale, 158.

  10. [10] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.

  11. [11] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Hannah T. King. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Hannah T. King.