Lydia Dibble Granger

April 5, 1790–September 2, 1861

1 Born at Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut; daughter of Lydia Granger and Cornish Dibble. 2 Married first Oliver Granger, 1813; eight children. 3 Baptized, circa 1832–1833. 4 Lived at Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 5 Widowed, 1841. 6 Served as a visiting committee member in the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo. 7 Married second Hyrum Smith as a plural wife, 1843; widowed, 1844. 8 Married third John Taylor as a plural wife, 1846. 9 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1851; settled at Salt Lake City. 10 Served as the first president of the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward Relief Society, 1855–1857. 11 Died at Salt Lake City. 12 (See Document 1.2, 4.28, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings 1843–1846 (Provo, UT: Grandin Book, 2004), 164, n.2. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Lydia Granger; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. Sarah M. Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 7 (Sept. 1, 1883): 51.
  2. [2] Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 164, n.2. “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Oct. 2014), Lydia Dibble (S8D4-66).
  3. [3] Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 164, n.2. Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51. Ancestral File,” database, Lydia Dibble (S8D4-66) and Oliver Granger (S8D4-51).
  4. [4] See “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (http://josephsmithpapers.org/reference, accessed Apr. 2014), Oliver Granger.
  5. [5] “People of the Time,” database, Oliver Granger.
  6. [6] Ibid. Kimball, “Auto-Biography,” 51.
  7. [7] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for July 28, 1843.
  8. [8] Lisle G. Brown, comp., Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings (Salt Lake City: Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006), 279. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 164. “People of the Time,” database, Hyrum Smith.
  9. [9] Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 308. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages Proxy Sealings, 164. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 30, 2015), Lydia Dibble LCF8-8MZ .
  10. [10] “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 Apr. 2014), Lydia Dibble Granger. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 15, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 219, Lydia Granger; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.
  11. [11] “Relief Society,” n.p., in Manuscript History and Reports, Fifteenth Ward, Riverside Stake [LR 2848 2], CHL.
  12. [12] “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (http://heritage.utah.gov/history/cemeteries, accessed Apr. 2014), Lydia Granger.