Jean Clara Holbrook

Clara Holbrook

14 November 1878 — 19 May 1963

Born 14 November 1878 in Fillmore, Millard County, Utah Territory. Daughter of Lafayette Holbrook and Emily Hinckley. Set apart as full-time missionary in British Mission, 19 May 1899; began service as a companion to Inez Knight and later served with Alice Sargent. Returned from mission, 21 June 1901. Married Clarence Jarvis, 16 December 1903; eight children. Died 19 May 1963 in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California.[1]


[1] Jean Clara Holbrook entry, no. 433, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, Book C, 99, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; “Holbrook, Jean Clara,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History, 1901), 503; Utah County, County Recorder, Utah, Utah County, Marriage Records, 1887–2011, Marriage Licenses, vol. 4, 1900–1905, p. 498, 16 Dec. 1903, DGS 100374729, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (hereafter FSL); 1920 U.S. Census, Benicia, Solano Co., CA, enumeration dist. 191, 4B; Utah State Department of Health, Utah Death Certificates, 1904–1951, Death Certificates, 1908, Salt Lake County (Nov.–Dec.)–Utah County, file no. 335, microfilm 2229319/DGS 4120988; Death Certificates, 1909, Salt Lake County (Oct.–Dec.)–Utah County, file no. 379, microfilm 2229322/DGS 4120994, Death Certificates, 1911, Salt Lake County (Dec.)–Weber County (Jan.-July), file no. 184, microfilm 2229366/DGS 4121093; Death Certificates, 1917, Salt Lake County (Feb. 16–Dec. 15), file no. 1805, microfilm 2229748/DGS 4121269, FSL; “Jean C. Jarvis,” in California Death Index, 1940–1997, FamilySearch database, available at familysearch.org.