Mary Jane Thompson Taylor

June 14, 1838–August 4, 1901

1 Born at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri; daughter of Mercy Rachel Fielding and Robert Blashell Thompson. 2 Lived at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. 4 Married David Taylor, 1859; one child. 5 Lived in the Salt Lake City Sixteenth Ward. 6 Appointed second counselor in the Sixteenth Ward Young Ladies’ Retrenchment Society, 1870; appointed treasurer, 1874. 7 Served as the first president of the Sixteenth Ward Primary Association, circa 1879–1881. 8 Died at Salt Lake City. 9 (See Document 3.30)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Pioneer Woman Gone: Mrs. Mary Jane Taylor Succumbs to the Ravages of Time,” Deseret Evening News, Aug. 5, 1901, 8. “Death of Pioneer Woman: Mrs. Mary Jane Taylor Passes Away at Her Home,” Salt Lake Herald, Aug. 5, 1901, 5. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Mary J.t. [ sic ] Taylor; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT.
  2. [2] “Pioneer Woman Gone,” 8. “Death of Pioneer Woman,” 5. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Mary Jane Thompson MBXM-YVR .
  3. [3] “Pioneer Woman Gone,” 8.
  4. [4] “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 Jan. 2015), Mary Jane Thompson.
  5. [5] “Pioneer Woman Gone,” 8. “Death of Pioneer Woman,” 5. “Family Tree,” database, Mary Jane Thompson and David Taylor KWVP-7RY .
  6. [6] “Death of Pioneer Woman,” 5. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 16, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 236, Mary J. Taylor; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 16, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 676B, Mary Taylor; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611. U.S. census digital images from Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015).
  7. [7] Andrew Jenson, comp., “Y.L.M.I.A.,” in manuscript history and historical reports, n.p., Sixteenth Ward, Riverside Stake, CHL.
  8. [8] “Pioneer Woman Gone,” 8. “Y.L.M.I.A.,” in manuscript history and historical reports, n.p., Sixteenth Ward, Riverside Stake, CHL.
  9. [9] “Pioneer Woman Gone,” 8. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Mary J.t. [ sic ] Taylor.