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Ruia Angeline Bliss Holden

29 April 1815—27 March 1868

1 Born at Avon, Livingston County, New York; daughter of Lucretia Bishop and John Bliss. 2 Married Edwin Holden, 1833; eight children. 3 Moved to La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois, 1837. 4 Baptized, 1840, and moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842. 6 Migrated to Utah Territory, 1852; settled at Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory. 7 Appointed counselor to Lucy Meserve Smith in the Provo Relief Society, circa 1856. 8 Served as president of the Provo Fourth Ward Relief Society, 1868–1883. 9 Died at Provo. 10 (See Document 1.2, 2.4, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Ruia A. Bliss Holden, autobiographical sketch, 1881 [MS 22905], Ruia Angeline Holden to Nellie May Holden, Jan. 30, 1881, 4 pp., CHL. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Ruia A. Holden; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. “In Memoriam,” Utah Enquirer (Provo), Apr. 12, 1889, 2.

  2. 2 Holden, autobiographical sketch, 1. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ruia A. Holden. “In Memoriam,” 2.

  3. 3 Holden, autobiographical sketch, 1. “In Memoriam,” 2. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Ruia Angeline Bliss KWVH-WVS.

  4. 4 Holden, autobiographical sketch, 1.

  5. 5 Ibid., 2.

  6. 6 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for July 14, 1842, Angeline Holden.

  7. 7 Holden, autobiographical sketch, 2. “Ruia Angeline Bliss,” Church History Biographical Database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Nov. 2023). 1860 U.S. census, Provo, Utah Co., Utah Territory], p. 946, Angeline Holden; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1314.

  8. 8 Lucy Meserve Smith, “Historical Sketches of my Great Grandfathers,” microfilm [MS 8270], CHL.

  9. 9 Holden, autobiographical sketch, 2–3. “In Memoriam,” 2.

  10. 10 “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ruia A. Holden. “In Memoriam,” 2.