Elvira Stevens Barney

17 March 1832 — 12 January 1909

1 Born at Gerry, Chautauque County, New York; daughter of Minerva Althea Field and Samuel C. Stevens. 2 Baptized, 1844. 3 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Brigham Young pioneer company, arriving September 20, 1848. 4 Married John Stillman Woodbury, 23 December 1850 in Salt Lake City, UT Territory, later divorced. 5 Served a mission to the Sandwich Islands, 1851; returned to Utah Territory, 1856. 6 Married Oliver Boardman Huntington, December 1856, in Salt Lake City, UT Territory, later divorced. 7 Married Royal Barney, Jr. 6 January 1866, in Salt Lake City, UT Territory, later divorced. 8 Attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois, and Deseret University in Salt Lake City; studied medicine in the eastern United States. Practiced medicine and taught obstetrics in Utah. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 3.25)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Augusta Joyce Crocheron, “Dr. Elvira S. Barney,” Representative Women of Deseret (Salt Lake City: J.C. Graham and Co., 1884), 76. Utah Department of Health, death certificates 1904–1961, series 81448, file no. 61/650 (1909), Elvira Stevens Barney; Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Salt Lake City, UT.

  2. [2] Crocheron, Representative Women, 76.

  3. [3] Ibid.

  4. [4] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Endowment House, Sealing of Couples, Living and by
    Proxy, 1851-1889," Bk. A, 1846-1857, p. 781, lines 18 & 19, John Stillman Woodbury and Elvira Stevens, 23 December 1850, film 183374, Special Collections, FHL. Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, S. George Ellsworth, eds. "No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities, (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), p. 412.

  5. [5] E.B.W. [Emmeline B. Wells], “Woman’s Tribute to Dr. Elvira S. Barney,” Deseret Evening News, Jan. 16, 1909, 25.

  6. [6] Oliver Boardman Huntington, Journal of Oliver Boardman Huntington, 14 October 1823 - 7
    February 1907, p. 261, 271

  7. [7] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Endowment House, Sealings of Couples, Living and by
    Proxy, 1851-1889," Vol. D, (1856-1866), p. 575, line : 8368, Royal Barney and Elvira Stevens, 6 Jan 1866, film 1, 149, 514, Special Collections Film, FHL. "Barney Royal Jr (B 1808) Divorce Certificate from Elvira Stevens 1890" in "Family Tree," database, (https ://familysearch.org, accessed 23 Apr 2018), Dr. Elvira Stevens, KWJC-52F, Memories . 1880 US Census, 6th Ward Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Ml, ED. 225, p. 82, Alvira Barney and Leon Barney. (lines 22 and 23).

  8. [8] Crocheron, Representative Women, 78–81. E.B.W, “Woman’s Tribute to Dr. Elvira S. Barney,” 25. “Death Closes Remarkable Career,” Salt Lake Herald, Jan. 15, 1909, 5.

  9. [9] Crocheron, Representative Women, 78–81. E.B.W, “Woman’s Tribute to Dr. Elvira S. Barney,” 25. “Family Tree,” database. FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Elvira S. Barney), 2VWY-CJ4.

  10. [10] Utah death certificate, file no. 61/650.