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Sarah Lucretia Clayton Partridge

August 1, 1837–January 27, 1919

1 Born at Farington, Lancashire, England; daughter of Ruth Moon and William Clayton. 2 Immigrated to the United States aboard the North America, 1840; settled at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 3 Baptized in Nauvoo, 1845. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Heber C. Kimball pioneer company, arriving late September 1848. 5 Married Edward Partridge Jr., 1858; eight children. 6 Lived in the Sandwich Islands during her husband’s service as mission president, 1882–1885. 7 Supervised the mission-wide Relief Society board, organized the mission-wide Primary, and conducted semiannual Relief Society and Primary meetings. 8 Died at Salt Lake City. 9 (See Document 4.13)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 315/636 (1919), Sarah Partridge. “Woman Pioneer of 1848 Succumbs Here,” Salt Lake Herald, Jan. 28, 1919, 12.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 315/636. “Edward Partridge,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 7 (July 1916): 125. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Sarah Lucretia Clayton KWJ4-JLZ.

  3. [3] “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu/, accessed May 2023), Sarah Clayton; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “People of the Time,” database, The Joseph Smith Papers (https://josephsmithpapers.org/reference/people, accessed May 2023), William Clayton.

  4. [4] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Lucretia Clayton.

  5. [5] “Sarah Lucretia Clayton,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Dec. 2014).

  6. [6] “Edward Partridge,” The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 125–126. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014), Sarah Lucretia Clayton and Edward Partridge; citing Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Lucretia Clayton.

  7. [7] Carol Cornwall Madsen, “Mormon Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Polynesia,” Journal of Mormon History 13, no. 1 (19866): 61–85. R. Lanier Britsch, Moramona: The Mormons in Hawaii (Laie, HI: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1989), 96–201. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901), 1:488.

  8. [8] Madsen “Mormon Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Polynesia,” 70–71, 76–77. Britsch, Moramona: The Mormons in Hawaii (Laie, HI: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1989), 96. “R.S., Y.L.M.I.A. and Primary Reports. Sandwich Islands. Interesting Report,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 11 (Nov. 1, 1883): 86.

  9. [9] Utah death certificate, file no. 315/636. “Woman Pioneer of 1848 Succumbs Here,” 12.