Mary Catherine Fry Miller

29 January 1801 — 31 January 1870

1 Born in Madison County, Virginia; daughter of Catherine Walker and Joshua Fry. 2 Married George Miller, 1822; six children. 3 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, 1840. 4 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, April 28, 1842. 5 Moved to Lyman Wight’s colony in Texas, 1847. 6 Left Texas to join James J. Strang’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1848; arrived at Beaver Island, Michigan, 1850. 7 Widowed, 1856. 8 Lived in Burnet County, Texas, by 1860. 9 Baptized into the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1866. 10 Died at San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California. 11 (See Document 1.2, 1.6, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846, p. 2 (1845), Mary Catherine Miller, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com, accessed Apr. 2014), memorial no. 31363441, Mary Catherine Fry Miller; Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA.

  2. [2] “Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed August 2014), entry for Mary Catherine Fry; extracted from Susan Easton Black, comp., Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848 (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1989). “International Genealogical Index (IGI),” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Mary C. Fry. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 2014), Mary Catherine Fry LXW6-PZ1 and George Miller KWVM-M28 .

  3. [3] “Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014), 1870 census, San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., California, p. 1, Mary E. [ sic ] Miller; extracted from Elizabeth Petty Bentley, indexer, Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler’s Quarterly (Baltimore, MD: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1984).

  4. [4] Richard E. Bennett, “‘A Samaritan Had Passed by’: George Miller: Mormon Bishop, Trailblazer, and Brigham Young Antagonist,” Illinois Historical Journal 82, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 4. “Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848,” database, Mary Catherine Fry.

  5. [5] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Apr. 28, 1842.

  6. [6] Bennett, “A Samaritan Had Passed by,” 12.

  7. [7] Ibid., 13–14.

  8. [8] Ibid., 15.

  9. [9] 1860 U.S. census, Burnet Co., Texas, p. 157, Mary C. Miller; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1289.

  10. [10] Susan Easton Black, comp., Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 6 vols. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993), 4:434.

  11. [11] Find a Grave, memorial no. 31363441. “U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850–1885,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014), 1870 census, San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., California, p. 1, Mary E. [ sic ] Miller; citing Nonpopulation Census Schedules for California, 1850–1880, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA.