Rosalthe Canfield

30 December 1841 — 7 April 1931

1 Born at Ossian, Allegany County, New York; daughter of Annis Bisbee and Israel Canfield Jr. 2 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1862. 3 Settled at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory. 4 Baptized, June 21, 1863. 5 Taught at the Ogden Second Ward school and helped run the Ladies of Weber County Cooperative Mercantile Institution, both with her sister, Harriet Canfield Brown. 6 Served as teacher and treasurer in the Weber County Relief Society; as treasurer, secretary, and counselor in the Weber Stake Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association (Y.L.M.I.A.); as president of the Ogden Fifth Ward Y.L.M.I.A.; and as counselor and president of the Weber Stake Primary board. 7 Served on the Primary general board, 1892–1895. 8 Died at Ogden. 9 (See Document 3.28)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Oct. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 160/514 (1931), Rosalthe Canfield.

  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no160/514. “Ancestral File,” database, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Rosalthe Canfield (2V99-Z1).

  3. [3] “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Apr. 2014), Rosalthe Canfield.

  4. [4] 1870 U.S. census, Ogden, Weber Co., Utah, p. 492A, Rosanthia Canfield in household of Israel Canfield; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Aug. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 161.

  5. [5] Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson Memorial Association; Deseret News, 1936), 4:277.

  6. [6] Leonard Arrington, Susan Arrington Madsen, and Emily Madsen Jones, Mothers of the Prophets (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1987), 148–149. Weber Stake Relief Society, Minutes, Oct. 30, 1877, vol. 6, pp. 23–34, Relief Society minutes and records, 1867–1968, Weber Stake, CHL. Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:277.

  7. [7] Jenson, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:277.

  8. [8] Ibid.

  9. [9] Utah death certificate, file no160/514. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Dec. 29, 2015), Roseltha Canfield K2WH-FQK .