Louisa Barnes Pratt

10 November 1802—8 September 1880

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)

Footnotes

  1. [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. [2] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent 9, no. 10 (Oct. 15, 1880): 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 45.

  3. [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. [4] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 46.

  5. [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. [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. [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. [8] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 48, 51.

  9. [9] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. Stone, “Louisa B. Pratt,” 48. Hillam, “Louisa Barnes Pratt,” 247.

  10. [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. [11] E.S.P.C., “In Memoriam,” 77. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 5, 2016), Parley Parker Pratt.