Mahala Ann Wallace Overton Morris

December 1812 — 15 February 1844

1 Born in Bibb County, Alabama; daughter of Prudence Randolph (Turner) and Daniel Wallace. 2 Married first Moses Overton, 1826; widowed, 1834. 3 Lived in the Fourth Ward at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by 1842. 4 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 5 Married second Jacob Morris, 1843. 6 Died at Nauvoo. 7 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages, 1839–1845 (Orem, UT: Grandin Book Co., 1994), 54. Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 1840–1845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois (Provo, UT: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University, 2002), 4:2691. An alternate birth year is listed as 1805; see “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed May 2023), Mahala Ann Wallace P3YD-JQN.

  2. [2] Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–2011, vol. 3, Mahala Ann Overton (July 16, 1840), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, CHL. Black and Black, Annotated Record of Baptisms for the Dead, 4:2691.

  3. [3] “Alabama, County Marriages, 1809–1950,” index and images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Moses Overton and Mahala Wallace, Sept. 21, 1826; citing Bibb, Alabama, United States, county courthouses, Alabama; FHL microfilm 1783749. “Family Tree,” database, Mahala Ann Wallace and Moses Overton KNJK-57Z. Patriarchal blessings, 1840, Mahala Ann Overton.

  4. [4] Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT: [privately printed], 1980), 92.

  5. [5] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entries for June 9, 1842, and July 7 and 28, 1843.

  6. [6] Cook, Nauvoo Deaths and Marriages, 108.

  7. [7] Ibid., 54.