Emily Hill Mills Woodmansee

24 March 1836 — 18 October 1906

1 Born near Warminster, Wiltshire, England; daughter of Elizabeth Slade and Thomas Hill. 2 Baptized, 1858. 3 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Thornton and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Willie handcart company, 1856. 4 Married first William Gill Mills, 1857; one child; abandoned by husband, circa 1863. 5 Married second Joseph Woodmansee, 1864; eight children. 6 Died at Salt Lake City. 7 (See Document 3.16, 4.15, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 1151/355 (1906), Emily H. Woodmansee.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 1151/355. Augusta Joyce Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches (Salt Lake City: J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), 82.

  3. [3] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 85.

  4. [4] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 85–86. “Saints by Sea,” database, 1840–1932, Saints by Sea (https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Emily Hill; extracted from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Immigration Index CD (2000). “Emily Hill,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  5. [5] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 86–87. 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 13, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 191, Emily H. Mills; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Emily Hill KWJC-LLR.

  6. [6] Crocheron, Representative Women of Deseret, 88.

  7. [7] Utah death certificate, file no. 1151/355. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015), Emily Woodmansee; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT.