Vilate Murray Kimball

1 June 1806 — 22 October 1867

1 Born at Florida, Montgomery County, New York; daughter of Susannah Fitch and Roswell Murray. 2 Married Heber C. Kimball, 1822; ten children. 3 Baptized, 1832. 4 Moved to Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, 1833; to Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, 1838–1839; to Atlas and Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, 1839; and to Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, circa 1840. 5 Joined the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo at its second meeting, March 24, 1842. 6 One of the first women to perform ordinances in the Nauvoo temple. 7 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1848. 8 Settled at Salt Lake City. 9 Died at Salt Lake City. 10 (See Document 1.2, 4.1, 4.28, first mentioned here)

Footnotes

  1. [1] “Obituary,” Deseret News [weekly], Dec. 25, 1867, 1. “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Vilate Murray Kimball; citing Utah State Historical Society, Utah Cemetery Inventory, Salt Lake City, UT. Kiersten Olsen, “‘The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance’: Vilate Murray Kimball (1806–1867),” in Women of Faith in the Latter Days: vol. 1, 1775–1820, ed. Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2011), 129, 131.

  2. [2] “Obituary,” 1. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance” 129. Dorothy W. Peterson, All Things Right: A Biography of Vilate Murray Kimball ([Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris Corporation, 2009), 22.

  3. [3] Peterson, All Things Right, 15. “U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560–1900,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014), Vilate Murray and Heber Chase Kimball, source no. 4380.000; from Yates Publishing, Provo, UT. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance” 129.

  4. [4] “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 18.

  5. [5] “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 62–67. Olsen, “The Embodiment of Strength and Endurance,” 130.

  6. [6] Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book, 1841–1846, CHL, entry for Mar. 24, 1842.

  7. [7] Helen Mar Whitney, “Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H.C. Kimball’s Journal,” Woman’s Exponent 12, no. 3 (July 1, 1883): 18. “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 142.

  8. [8] “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 Nov. 2014), Vilate Murray Kimball.

  9. [9] “Obituary,” 1. Peterson, All Things Right, 186. 1850 U.S. census, [no city], Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 76B, Vilats [ sic ] Kimball; from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919; 1860 U.S. census, Great Salt Lake City Ward 18, Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 271, Volah [ sic ] M. Kimball; from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1313; U.S. census digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014).

  10. [10] “Utah Cemetery Inventory,” database, Vilate Murray Kimball. “Millennium File,” database, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Nov. 2014), Vilate Murray from Heritage Consulting, Salt Lake City, UT. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 4, 2016), Vilate Murray Kimball L2MT-W6X .