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Mahala Ann Wallace Overton Morris

December 1812—15 February 18441

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.