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Thirza Melvina Berry Thurber

December 23, 1836–May 9, 1900

1 Born at Dresden, Weakley County, Tennessee; daughter of Armelia Shanks and Jesse Woods Berry. 2 Lived at Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. 3 Baptized, circa 1845. 4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849. 5 Married Albert King Thurber, 1851; eleven children. 6 Settled at Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah Territory; appointed treasurer of the Spanish Fork Relief Society, 1866. 7 Moved to Richfield, Sevier County, Utah Territory, 1874. 8 Served as a counselor in the Sevier Stake Relief Society presidency, 1879–1898. 9 Died at Richfield. 10 (See Document 2.5)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Utah Division of State History (https://ushpo.utah.gov/cemetery, accessed May 2023), Thirza Melvina Berry Thurber. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Thirza Melvina Berry KWJH-CBP.

  2. [2] “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Thirza Melvina Berry Thurber. “Family Tree,” database, Thirza Melvina Berry. William G. Hartley, Another Kind of Gold: The Life of Albert King Thurber, A Utah Pioneer, Explorer and Community Builder (Troy, ID: C. L. Dalton Enterprises, 2011), 437.

  3. [3] Hartley, Another Kind of Gold, 437

  4. [4] “Family Tree,” database, Thirza Melvina Berry.

  5. [5] “Thirza Melvina Berry,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. [6] Hartley, Another Kind of Gold, 437. “Family Tree,” database, Thirza Melvina Berry and Albert King Thurber KWNN-77G.

  7. [7] Hartley, Another Kind of Gold, 437. Priscilla Merriman Evans, record book, ca. 1907[?], Emma Priscilla Evans Little, Papers, 1870–1941, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

  8. [8] Hartley, Another Kind of Gold, 438.

  9. [9] Ibid.

  10. [10] Hartley, Another Kind of Gold, 438. “Utah Cemeteries and Burials,” database, Thirza Melvina Berry Thurber. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Jan. 2015), memorial no. 107458, Thirza Melvina Berry Thurber; Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, UT.