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Gove, Flora Ann Woodworth

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1826

Temple Records Index Bureau, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 148; “Woodworth, Flora Ann,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1963, microfilm 392,695, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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Temple Records Index Bureau of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974.

U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

–after 1849.

1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 83[B].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Born in New York.

“Woodworth, Flora Ann,” Patriarchal Blessing Index, 1833–1963, microfilm 392,695, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Daughter of Lucien Woodworth and Phebe Watrous.

Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 389; “Record of the Names of the Members,” [39].

Comprehensive Works Cited

Compton, Todd. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

Sloan, James, and Willard Richards. “A Record of the Names of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Who Have Handed In Certificates, with the Names of the Persons, and Their Office, Who Gave Same, Also the Branch from Which They Came, and Date of Certificate.” Oct. 1841–Jan. 1846. In Far West and Nauvoo Elders’ Certificates, 1837–1838, 1840–1846, 1862. CHL.

Family moved to Ellisburgh, Jefferson Co., New York, by 1830; to Conneaut, Erie Co., Pennsylvania, by Dec. 1832; and to Missouri, by 1839.

1830 U.S. Census, Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., NY, 33; Coltrin, Diary, [25]; 7–9 Dec. 1832, [54]–[55]; 1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 83[B].

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Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Coltrin, Zebedee. Diaries, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 1443.

Resided with her family in Fourth Ward in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, ca. 1842.

“Record of the Names of the Members,” [39].

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Identified in some sources as a plural wife of JS, sealed in spring 1843.

William Clayton, Affidavit, 16 Feb. 1874, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage; Helen Mar Whitney, “Travels beyond the Mississippi,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1884, 13:87; Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Journal, 27 July 1887, Merrill Library, Utah State University, Logan, UT, as published in Hatch and Compton, A Widow’s Tale; see also JS, Journal, 4 Mar. 1843.

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The Historical Record, a Monthly Periodical, Devoted Exclusively to Historical, Biographical, Chronological and Statistical Matters. Salt Lake City. 1882–1890.

Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.

Hatch, Charles M., and Todd M. Compton, eds. A Widow’s Tale: The 1884–1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003.

Received land in Nauvoo from JS, 13 May 1843.

Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, p. 161–162.

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Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. A, 1842–1843. CHL. MS 3443.

Married Carlos Gove, 23 Aug. 1843, in Hancock Co.

Hancock Co., IL, County Clerk, Marriages, 1829–1849, p. 68, microfilm 229,486, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.

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U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.

Moved to Winter Quarters, unorganized U.S. territory (later in Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), by 1 Sept. 1846; to St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri, by ca. 1848; and to Pottawattamie Co., Iowa, by 1850.

Helen Mar Whitney, “Travels Beyond the Mississippi,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1884, 87; see also Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 393; Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado, 597–598; 1860 U.S. Census, Oak Township, Mills Co., IA, 39; 1870 U.S. Census, Oak Township, Mills Co., Iowa, 70[B]; 1850 U.S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie Co., IA, 83[B].

Comprehensive Works Cited

Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.

Compton, Todd. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity Colorado: Containing Portraits and Biographies of Many Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present. . . Chicago: Chapman, 1898.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Died in Kanesville, Pottawattamie Co.

Helen Mar Whitney, “Travels Beyond the Mississippi,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Nov. 1884, 87; see also Compton, In Sacred Loneliness, 394.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.

Compton, Todd. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2001.

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