Leonora Cannon Taylor

6 October 1796 — 9 December 1868

1 Born at Peel, Isle of Man; daughter of Leonora Callister and George Cannon. 2 Immigrated to Canada, 1831. 3 Married John Taylor, 1833; four children. 4 Baptized in Canada, 1836. 5 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio; to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri; to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois; to Montrose, Lee County, Iowa Territory; and to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1838–1846. 6 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo as a founding member, March 17, 1842. 7 Traveled to the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. 8 Lived in the Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward; participated in the Fourteenth Ward Relief Society. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 1.2, 1.6, 2.3, 4.5, 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 2 (1845), Leonora Taylor, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. “Obituary,” Deseret Evening News, Dec. 10, 1868.

  2. [2] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 2 (1845). “England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975,” index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Leonora Cannon, chr. Oct. 9, 1796; citing Kirk German, Isle of Man, England; FHL microfilm 106177. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Leonora Cannon KWV4-J33.

  3. [3] “Obituary.” Elizabeth Taylor Morgan and Louise C. Taylor, “Leonora Cannon Taylor,” [196-?], p. 1, CHL.

  4. [4] Marriage record of John Taylor and Leonora Cannon, 1833, CHL. Morgan and Taylor, “Leonora Cannon Taylor,” 1–2. “Family Tree,” database, Leonora Cannon and John Taylor KWJC-VF5.

  5. [5] Morgan and Taylor, “Leonora Cannon Taylor,” 2. “Obituary.”

  6. [6] Edward W. Tullidge, Women of Mormondom (New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877), 414–415. “Obituary,” [page].

  7. [7] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 17, 1842.

  8. [8] “Leonora Cannon Taylor,” Church History Biographical Database, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, available at https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/landing, accessed Jan. 2015.

  9. [9] 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 14, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 204, Leonora Taylor; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313. “Relief Society in the Early Days,” Woman’s Exponent 24, no. 3 (July 1, 1895): 21.

  10. [10] “Obituary.” Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 415. “Family Tree,” database, Leonora Cannon.