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Ellen Celeste Woodward

Ellen Celeste Fuller

5 November 1831—15 January 1915

Born 5 Nov. 1831 at Petersham, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.1 Daughter of David Woodard and Diadama Hare.2 Sister of EBW.3 Baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 12 May 1842.4 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with EBW and Newel K. Whitney in the Heber C. Kimball pioneer company, arriving Sept. 1848.5 Married Elijah K. Fuller, 11 Mar. 1851, in Salt Lake City; eleven children.6 Appointed to help settle what became Las Vegas, 1855.7 Moved to Harrisburg, Washington Co., Utah Territory, 1861.8 Appointed as postmaster, 27 Oct. 1879.9 Practiced midwifery at Pine Creek, Gila Co., Arizona Territory, 1893.10 Storekeeper at Pine Creek for fifteen years.11 Died 15 Jan. 1915 at Mesa, Maricopa Co., Arizona.12

Footnotes

  1. 1 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, p. 18, Ellen Celeste Fuller, microfilm 1255545 (restricted access), FHL. Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Pine Ward, line 11, Ellen C. Woodward Fuller, CR 375 8, box 5389, folder 1, image 21/622 (limited access), CHL. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 15 Jan. 2019), Ellen Celeste Woodward (KWJH-1QD). 

  2. 2 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, p. 18, Ellen Celeste Fuller, microfilm 1255545 (restricted access), FHL. Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Pine Ward, line 11, Ellen C. Woodward Fuller, CR 375 8, box 5389, folder 1, image 21/622 (limited access), CHL. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Genealogical Department, Genealogical Surveys of LDS Members: Autobiographies and Ancestors, vols. 6–9, p. 465, Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller, microfilm 1059456, DGS 7957116, image 1218/1243, FHL. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503.

  3. 3 “Death of Mrs. Fuller, A True Pioneer Woman,” Deseret Evening News, 18 Jan. 1915, 9. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 503. Dallas Woodbury Coleman, Elijah Knapp Fuller and His Ancestors (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1985), 36.

  4. 4 “Endowments of the Living, 1851–1884,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, vol. A-A1, p. 18, Ellen Celeste Fuller, microfilm 1255545 (restricted access), FHL. Record of Members Collection, 1836–1970, Pine Ward, line 11, Ellen C. Woodward Fuller, CR 375 8, box 5389, folder 1, image 21/622 (limited access), CHL.

  5. 5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Genealogical Department, Genealogical Surveys of LDS Members: Autobiographies and Ancestors, vols. 6–9, p. 465, Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller, microfilm 1059456, DGS 7957116, image 1218/1243, FHL. “Ellen Celeste Woodward,” Pioneer Database (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 23 Jan. 2019).

  6. 6 “Sealings of Couples, Living and by Proxy, 1851–1889,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, p. 719, microfilm 183374, DGS 52265582 (restricted access), FHL. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Genealogical Department, Genealogical Surveys of LDS Members: Autobiographies and Ancestors, vols. 6–9, p. 465, Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller, microfilm 1059456, DGS 7957116, image 1218/1243, FHL. Dallas Woodbury Coleman, Elijah Knapp Fuller and His Ancestors (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1985), 37. “Death of Mrs. Fuller, A True Pioneer Woman,” Deseret Evening News, 18 Jan. 1915, 9.

  7. 7 Dallas Woodbury Coleman, Elijah Knapp Fuller and His Ancestors (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1985), 37.

  8. 8 Dallas Woodbury Coleman, Elijah Knapp Fuller and His Ancestors (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1985), 37. “R.S. Reports,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Aug. 1876, 34.

  9. 9 “U.S. Appointments of U.S. Postmasters, 1832–1971,” database Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com, accessed 9 Apr. 2020), Mrs. Ellen C. Fuller; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832–1971, Records of the Post Office Department, National Archives, Washington DC.

  10. 10 EBW, Diary, 5 Nov. 1893. Dallas Woodbury Coleman, Elijah Knapp Fuller and His Ancestors (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1985), 38.

  11. 11 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Genealogical Department, Genealogical Surveys of LDS Members: Autobiographies and Ancestors, vols. 6–9, p. 465, Ellen Celeste Woodward Fuller, microfilm 1059456, DGS 7957116, image 1218/1243, FHL. 1910 U.S. Census, Pine, Gila Co., Arizona Territory, ED 27, p. 11A, Ellen C. Fuller.

  12. 12 Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates Results (http://genealogy.az.gov, accessed 8 Jan. 2019), Arizona State Board of Health, state index no. 133, 1915, Ellen C. Fuller.