Lucy Walker Kimball

30 April 1826 — 1 October 1910

1 Born at Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont; daughter of Lydia Holmes and John Walker. 2 Baptized in New York, 1835. 3 Survived the attack at Hawn’s Mill on Shoal Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838. 4 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by 1840 or 1841. 5 Later identified herself as a plural wife of Joseph Smith, married on May 1, 1843. 6 Married second Heber C. Kimball as a plural wife, 1845; nine children. 7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 8 Lived in the Salt Lake City Eighteenth Ward, circa 1848–1868. 9 Moved to Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory, circa 1868; served in the Provo Fourth Ward Relief Society. 10 Moved back to Salt Lake City, before 1900. 11 Died at Salt Lake City. 12 (See Document 3.12)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Nov. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1356/514 (1910), Lucy W. Kimball.

  2. [2] Lucy Walker Kimball, autobiographical sketch and statement, n.d. [ca. 1910], typescript [ca. 1940], p. [1], CHL. Utah death certificate, file no. 1356/514.

  3. [3] “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Lucy Walker KWVH-X95 . “Nauvoo Veteran Woman at Rest,” Deseret Evening News, Oct. 1, 1910, last edition, 1. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 1:808.

  4. [4] Kimball, autobiographical sketch and statement, 1–3. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:308–309.

  5. [5] Kimball, autobiographical sketch and statement, 3. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:309.

  6. [6] Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915, CHL, Lucy W. Kimball, Affidavit, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, Aug. 9, 1869, 2:68. Lucy Walker Smith Kimball affidavit, Dec. 17, 1902, Salt Lake Co., Utah, CHL. Kimball, autobiographical sketch and statement, 6–7.

  7. [7] Kimball, autobiographical sketch and statement, 8. “Family Tree,” database, Lucy Walker. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014), Lucy Walker and Heber Chase Kimball, source no. 4389.000; citing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900 (Provo, UT: Yates Publishing, 2004).

  8. [8] “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 Nov. 2014), Lucy Walker Smith Kimball.

  9. [9] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:309. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 18, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 271, Lucy Kimball; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  10. [10] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:309. “The Territorial Fair,” Woman’s Exponent 1, no. 7 (Sept. 1, 1872): 52. 1880 U.S. census, Provo, Utah Co., Utah Territory, p. 145A, L. W. Kimball; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1338.

  11. [11] 1900 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 1, Salt Lake Co., Utah, p. 6B, Lucy W. Kimball, from NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1684; 1910 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 4, Salt Lake Co., Utah, p. 13A, Lucy W. Kimball, from NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 160; U.S. census data and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014).

  12. [12] Utah death certificate, file no. 1356/514.