1 Born at Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; daughter of Dolly Stephens and Willard Barnes. 2 Married Addison Pratt, 1831; four children. 3 Baptized, 1838. 4 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1841. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 6 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 7 Appointed to accompany Pratt on a mission to the Pacific Islands, 1850–1852; served in Tubuai and Tahiti, French Polynesia. 8 Lived at San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California, 1852–1858; moved to Beaver, Beaver County, Utah Territory, 1858. 9 Helped organized the first Relief Society in Beaver; served as secretary and counselor in the Beaver Relief Society. 10 Died at Beaver. 11 (See Document 1.2, 4.1, first mentioned here)
Louisa Barnes Pratt
10 November 1802—8 September 1880
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Ann Gardner Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” in Sister Saints, ed. Vicky Burgess-Olson (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1978), 45. S. George Ellsworth, ed., The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), xxv.
[2] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 10 (Oct. 15, 1880): 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 45.
[3] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. In addition to her four daughters, Louisa Pratt also fostered a Tahitian boy who lived with the family in California after 1852. See Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 48.
[4] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 46.
[5] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 46. Alisha Erin Hillam, “‘Be Still and Know That I Am God’: Louisa Barnes Pratt,” in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, ed. Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman, vol. 2, 1821–1845 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012), 246.
[6] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, May 13 [May 12], 1842. Emmeline B. Wells, “Women's Organizations,” Woman’s Exponent 8, no. 16 (Jan. 15, 1880): 122.
[7] “Louisa Barnes Pratt,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2014. Louisa Barnes Pratt, journal and autobiography, 1850–1880, holograph, Louisa Barnes Pratt Collection, CHL; qtd. in Women of Faith in the Latter Days, ed. Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman, vol. 1, 1775–1820 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 255–258.
[8] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 48, 51.
[9] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 48. Hillam, “Louisa Barnes Pratt,” 247.
[10] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Ellsworth, The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt, 345. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 49, 56. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 5, 2016), Louisa Barnes KWV9-7XJ.
[11] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 5, 2016), Parley Parker Pratt.