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Lucretia Davis Gay

21 May 1809—6 March 1886

1 Born at Princeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; daughter of Miranda Jones and James Davis. 2 Married Moses Gay, 1830; nine children. 3 Lived at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by 1846. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 5 Settled at Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah Territory. 6 Served as president of the Spanish Fork Ward Relief Society, 1857–1866. 7 Died at Spanish Fork. 8 (See Document 2.5)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620–1988,” database, entry for Lucretia Davis; from Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute). “Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index,” database, entry for Lucretia Davis Gay; from Utah County (UT) Cemetery Index (Provo, UT: Utah Valley Regional Family History Center, 1997). Databases, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014).

  2. 2 “Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620–1988,” database, Lucretia Gay. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 125 (1846), Lucretia Gay, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL.

  3. 3 “Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633–1850,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research., Provo, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Oct. 2014), Lucretia Davis KWJH-CKH.

  4. 4 Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 125 (1846).

  5. 5 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014), Lucretia Davis Gay.

  6. 6 1860 U.S. census, Spanish Fork, Utah Co., Utah Territory, p. 970, Lucretia Gay; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1314.

  7. 7 Priscilla Merriman Evans, Record Book, ca. 1907[?];Emma Priscilla Evans Little, Papers, 1870–1941, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

  8. 8 “Utah County, Utah Cemetery Index,” database, Lucretia Davis Gay.