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Polly Zerviah Kelsey Johnson

14 September 1808—27 June 18501

Born at Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut; daughter of Polly Parmalee and Jonathan Kelsey.2 Married Aaron Johnson, 1827; four children.3 Baptized in Connecticut, 1836.4 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1837; to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838; and to Commerce (later Nauvoo), Hancock County, Illinois, 1839.5 Endowed in the Nauvoo temple, 1845.6 Accompanied her husband on a mission to the eastern United States, 1848.7 Began migration to the Salt Lake Valley, June 1850.8 Died en route to Utah; buried along the Platte River near Fort Kearny, unorganized U.S. territory.9 (See Document 1.6)

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649–1906,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Polly Zeriah Kelcey [sic], Dec. 28, 1835; citing Connecticut-ODM, indexing project batch no. 7450343. Alan P. Johnson, Aaron Johnson, Faithful Steward (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1991), 3, 292–294.

  2. 2 “Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649–1906,” index, Polly Zeriah Kelcey. Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 3, 292. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Polly Zerviah Kelsey KWVH-XCQ.

  3. 3 Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 3, 292. “Family Tree,” database, Polly Zerviah Kelsey.

  4. 4 Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 292.

  5. 5 Ibid., 292–293.

  6. 6 Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 293. Susan Easton Black and Harvey Bischoff Black, Annotated Records of Baptisms for the Dead 1840–1845: Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois (Provo, UT: Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University), 3:1983.

  7. 7 International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1998), 2:1595.

  8. 8 “Polly Zerviah Kelsey,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023). Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 293–294.

  9. 9 Johnson, Aaron Johnson, 165, 294. “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,” database, Polly Zerviah Kelsey Johnson.