Jemima Brace

1781 — 1845

Probably born in Connecticut. Wife of Truman Brace. Died en route from Iowa Territory to Republic of Texas. 1 (See Document 1.2, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Lyman De Platt, Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, vol. 1 (Highland, UT: Lyman De Platt, 1980), 163. Portage County (Ohio), County Recorder, “Deed records, 1795–1881; index, 1795–1917,” p. 106, Truman Brace and Jemima; from Portage County courthouse, Ravenna, OH; images, FHL microfilm 899067, FHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Feb. 2016), Jemima KN43-XHK . Melvin C. Johnson, Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006), 54–58. 1850 U.S. census, Zodiac, Gillespie Co., Texas, p. 315B, Freeman Brace; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed July 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 910.