Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde

June 28, 1815–March 24, 1886

1 Born at Pomfret, Windsor County, Vermont; daughter of Alice (Elsa) Jacobs and John Johnson. 2 Baptized in Ohio, 1832. 3 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1833. 4 Married Orson Hyde, 1834; ten children. 5 Lived in Missouri, 1838–1839; moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 6 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its first meeting, March 17, 1842. 7 Later identified herself as a plural wife of Joseph Smith, married in 1842 or 1843. 8 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1852. 9 Settled at Salt Lake City. 10 Divorced Hyde, 1870. 11 Served as president of the Salt Lake City Seventeenth Ward Relief Society, 1868–1886. 12 Served as an executive board member of the Deseret Hospital Association, circa 1882–1886. 13 Died at Salt Lake City. 14 (See Document 1.2, 3.13, 3.16, 3.17, 3.25, 4.1, 4.11, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 199 (1886), Marinda N. Hyde; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. [2] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Marinda N. Hyde. “Family Record,” entry for Marinda N. Johnson, in John Johnson Family Bible pages, ca. 1830, photocopy [MS 12919], CHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Oct. 2014), Marinda Nancy Johnson KWJR-T8C.

  3. [3] Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877), 404.

  4. [4] Ibid.

  5. [5] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 404. Ohio, Geauga County, Geauga County Probate Court Marriage records, entry for Orson Hyde and Marinda N. Johnson, Sept. 1, 1834, CHL. “Family Tree,” database, Marinda Nancy Johnson and Orson Hyde.

  6. [6] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 405. “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (http://josephsmithpapers.org/reference, accessed Apr. 2014), Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde.

  7. [7] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.

  8. [8] Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde, Affidavit, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, May 1, 1869, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915, 1:15, CHL.

  9. [9] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 405. “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 Oct. 2014), Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde.

  10. [10] 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 17, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 262, Mirinda [sic] Hyde; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  11. [11] “People of the Time,” database, Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde. See Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 228–253.

  12. [12] Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 405–406. Andrew Jenson, comp., “Relief Society,” in manuscript history and historical reports, n.p, Seventeenth Ward, Salt Lake Stake, CHL.

  13. [13] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.

  14. [14] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Marinda N. Hyde.