Sophia Whitaker Taylor

21 April 1825 — 27 February 1887

1 Born at Blakedown, Worcestershire, England; daughter of Sophia Turner and Thomas Whitaker. 2 Baptized in England, 1840. 3 Immigrated to the United States, circa 1847. 4 Married John Taylor as a plural wife, 1847; seven children. 5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. 6 Settled in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward. 7 Participated in the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, as early as 1856. 8 Served on the finance committee for Deseret Hospital. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 2.3, 4.11)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Sister S. W. Taylor,” Woman’s Exponent 15, no. 19 (Mar. 1, 1887): 148. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 213 (1887), Sophia Taylor; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Feb. 2015); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. [2] “Sister S. W. Taylor,” 148. Florence T. Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” typescript, n.d. [196-?], CHL.

  3. [3] “Sister S. W. Taylor,” 149. Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1.

  4. [4] Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1.

  5. [5] Miller, “Sophia Whittaker Taylor,” 1–2. Emerson Roy West, Latter-day Prophets: Their Lives, Teachings, and Testimonies with Profiles of Their Wives (American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 1997), 119.

  6. [6] Sophia Whitaker Taylor,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  7. [7] 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 204, Sophia Taylor; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313.

  8. [8] “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21.

  9. [9] “The Deseret Hospital. Dedication Services,” Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1882, 2.

  10. [10] “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Sophia Taylor. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Feb. 2015), Sophia Taylor; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 7, 2016), Sophia Whitaker KWJC-LF7.