Rebecca Maria Burton Jones

16 February 1826 — 19 November 1888

1 Born at Mersea, Essex County, Upper Canada; daughter of Hannah Shipley and Samuel Burton. 2 Baptized in Canada, 1837. 3 Immigrated to the United States and settled at Walnut Grove, Knox County, Illinois, 1839; moved to Camp Creek, Hancock County, Illinois, 1842, and to Nauvoo, Hancock County, 1844. 4 Married Nathaniel Vary Jones, 1845; eight children. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849. 6 Settled in the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward. 7 Widowed, 1863. 8 Served as counselor to Sarah M. Kimball in the Fifteenth Ward Relief Society presidency, 1868–1888. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 3.12)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014), Rebecca M. Jones; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. E. E. W. [Emmeline B. Wells?], “A Tribute of Respect,” Woman’s Exponent 17, no. 13 (Dec. 1, 1888): 104.

  2. [2] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 13 (1888), Rebecca M. Jones; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT. Janet Burton Seegmiller, “Be Kind to the Poor”: The Life Story of Robert Taylor Burton (n.p.: Robert Taylor Burton Family Organization, 1988), 51, 425.

  3. [3] Family records list her baptism date as December 23, 1837. An obituary places the baptism in January 1838. Seegmiller, “ Be Kind to the Poor,” 425. E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104.

  4. [4] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. Seegmiller, “ Be Kind to the Poor,” 25–27, 33, 51.

  5. [5] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. Seegmiller, “ Be Kind to the Poor,” 51, 425. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Nov. 2014), Rebecca Maria Burton KWVM-2XH .

  6. [6] “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 Nov. 2014), Rebecca Maria Burton Jones.

  7. [7] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. 1850 U.S. census, [no city], Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 43B, Rebecca Jones; from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 15, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 223, Rebecca Jones; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. 1870 U.S. census, Salt Lake City Ward 15, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 667A, Rebecca Jones; from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1611.

  8. [8] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. “Family Tree,” database, Nathaniel Vary Jones KWJC-1PQ .

  9. [9] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. Andrew Jenson, comp., “Relief Society,” in manuscript history and historical reports, 1849–1968, n.p., Fifteenth Ward, Riverside Stake, CHL.

  10. [10] E. E. W. “A Tribute of Respect,” 104. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Rebecca M. Jones.