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Nancy Bailey Chase Farr

Nancy Bailey Chase Kimball Farr

27 January 1823—10 September 1892

The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

1 Born at Bristol, Addison County, Vermont; daughter of Tirzah Wells and Ezra Chase.2 Baptized in Livingston County, New York, 1838; moved to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois, 1839.3 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842.4 Married Lorin Farr, January 1, 1845; eleven children.5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847.6 Settled at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory, 1849.7 Appointed counselor to Mary Hoagland West in the Ogden Relief Society, 1867.8 Died at Ogden.9 (See Document 1.2, 3.28, first mentioned here)

Born at Bristol, Addison County, Vermont; daughter of Tirzah Wells and Ezra Chase. Died at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory.10 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 18 (1845), Nancy Farr, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. Flora Belnap, “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr, Pioneer of Weber County Utah,” typescript, ca. 1930, n.p., CHL.

  2. 2 Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 18 (1845). Belnap, “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr.” “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Nancy Bailey Chase K2WW-YK1.

  3. 3 Belnap, “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr,” [1].

  4. 4 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for June 9, 1842, as Nancy Chase.

  5. 5 “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. “Family Tree,” database, Nancy Bailey Chase. Belnap, “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr,” [1], [4].

  6. 6 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.ChurchofJesusChrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Apr. 2014), Nancy Bailey Chase Farr. “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr,” [2].

  7. 7 1850 U.S. census, Weber Co., Utah Territory, p. 148A, Nancy Farr; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919.

  8. 8 Weber Stake Relief Society, Minutes, Oct. 30, 1877, vol. 6, pp. 23–34, 1877–1900, Weber Stake, Relief Society Minutes and Records, 1867–1968, CHL.

  9. 9 “Biography of Nancy B. Chase Farr,” [4]. Utah Division of State History, “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Cemeteries and Burials (https://history.utah.gov/cemeteries, accessed Apr. 2014), Nancy B. Farr.

  10. 10 “Nancy Chase Farr,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1971, (closed to research), CHL. Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 18. Flora Belnap, Nancy Chase Farr Biographical Sketch, n.d., pp. 1–4, CHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Feb. 2016), Nancy Bailey Chase K2WW-YK1 . Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Sept. 2015), memorial no. 26392786, Nancy Bailey Chase Farr; Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, UT.