1 Born at Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; daughter of Sarah Chaplin and Ebenezer Kingsley. 2 Married first John Howe, 1807; one child. 3 Widowed, 1825. 4 Married second John Alexander Cleveland, 1826; two children. 5 Lived at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1842; neighbor of Joseph and Emma Smith. 6 Identified in some sources as a plural wife of Joseph Smith. 7 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842; served as a counselor to Emma Smith. 8 Moved from Nauvoo, circa 1843. 9 Died at Plymouth, Hancock County. 10 (See Document 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 3.27, 4.4, 4.5, 4.28, first mentioned here)
Sarah Marietta Kingsley Howe Cleveland
20 October 1788—21 April 1856
Footnotes
Footnotes
[1] Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland, comps. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, 2 vols. (Hartford, CT: By the authors, 1899), 1:754. Todd M. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 287.
[2] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley. Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson Memorial Association; Deseret News, 1936), 4:183.
[3] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley and John Howe KGC2-CKT . LDS Church, Early Church Information File, Sarah Marietta Cleveland, cards 748–750, FHL microfilm 1750655 to reel 75; FHL microfilm 1750729, FHL/CHL.
[4] “Family Tree,” database, John Howe.
[5] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley and John Alexander Cleveland K2QB-6NV .
[6] Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 277. Cleveland and Cleveland, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, 1:754. Marjorie M. Woolf, “The Eighteen Charter Members of Relief Society,” Relief Society Magazine 29, no. 5 (May 1942): 304.
[7] Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 277–278. Richard Lloyd Anderson and Scott H. Faulring, “The Prophet Joseph Smith and His Plural Wives,” FARMS Review of Books 10/2 (1998): 76.
[8] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.
[9] Sarah M. Cleveland, “To the Presidency, and Ladies of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” Times and Seasons 4, no. 12 (May 1, 1843): 187.
[10] “Family Tree,” database, Sarah Marietta Kingsley. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Sarah Marietta Kingsley KWJ1-4HZ .