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Documentation for the Wives of William Clayton Updated June 16, 2014 by Curtis D Documentation for the Wives of William Clayton Updated June 16, 2014 By Curtis D. Clayton William Clayton Born: July 17, 1814, Penwortham, Lancashire, England Died: December 4, 1879, Salt Lake City, Utah Ruth Moon Born: June 13, 1817, Lancashire, England Married: October 9, 1836, St Mary, Penwortham Parish, Lancashire, England [Ref. 1] Sealed: July 22, 1843 by Joseph Smith, at their home in Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 2 and 3] Sealed in Nauvoo Temple: January 26, 1846, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 4 and 5] Died: January 15, 1894, Salt Lake City, Utah Margaret Moon Born: January 14, 1820, Penwortham, Lancashire, England Married and Sealed: April 27, 1843 by Joseph Smith, at H. C. Kimball’s home in Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 6-8] Sealed in Nauvoo Temple: January 26, 1846, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 4 and 5] Died: August 25, 1870, Salt Lake City, Utah Alice Hardman Born: April 9, 1816, Salwick, Lancashire, England Sealed: September 13, 1844 by Heber C. Kimball, at her home in Nauvoo, Illinois [Note 2, Ref. 9 and 10] Married to Austin Sturgess: November 3, 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 11] Widowed: Prior to 1850 census [Ref. 12] Married: about 1851, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 13] Divorced: December 13, 1858, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 14] Married to William Sauze: Prior to 1880, lived in Manti, Utah [Ref. 15 and 16] Died: November 11, 1894, Glenwood, Sevier, Utah Sealed by proxy: 1955 SLC [Ref. 17] Jane Hardman (sealing-only relationship) [Note 1] Born: September 1, 1816, Manchester, Lancashire, England Married to William Whitehead: February 8, 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 18] Sealed: November 20, 1844 by Brigham Young, at home, Nauvoo, Illinois [Note 3, Ref. 19] Died: July 23, 1847, Oquawka, Henderson, Illinois Diantha Farr Born: October 12, 1828, Charleston, Orleans, Vermont Married and sealed: January 9, 1845 by Heber C. Kimball, at her home, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 20] Sealed in Nauvoo Temple: January 26, 1846, Nauvoo, Illinois [Ref. 4 and 5] Died: September 11, 1850, Salt Lake City, Utah William Clayton’s Wives 6/14/2014 Page 2 of 8 Augusta Braddock Born: November 24, 1833, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England Married and Sealed: October 5, 1850 by Brigham Young, at home of Willard Richards, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 21] Died: March 3, 1923, Oakland, Alameda, California Sarah Ann Walters Born: November 16, 1838, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Married and Sealed: November 30, 1856, in President’s Office, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 22] Sealed in Endowment House: December 30, 1870, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 23] Died: March 1, 1915, Salt Lake City, Utah Maria Louisa Lyman Born: May 8, 1849, Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake City, Utah Married and Sealed in Endowment House: October 3, 1866, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 24] Divorced: October 1871 [Ref. 25] Married to John Smith Stredder: June 6, 1873, Beaver, Utah [Ref. 26] Died: July 5, 1877, Beaver, Utah Elizabeth Mort Born: July 13, 1818, Bolton, Lancashire, England Married to William Ainsworth: September 4, 1848, Bury, Lancashire, England [Ref. 27] Widowed: January 16, 1867 [Ref. 28] Married and Sealed in Endowment House: December 19, 1870, Salt Lake City, Utah [Note 4, Ref. 29] Died: September 9, 1877, Salt Lake City, Utah Ellen Melling (sealing-only relationship) [Note 1] Born: June 22, 1816, Penwortham, Lancashire, England Died: 1843, Preston, Lancashire, England Proxy Sealing in Endowment House: December 19, 1870, Salt Lake City, Utah [Note 5, Ref. 30] Anna Elizabeth Higgs Born: December 28, 1853, Utica, Oneida, New York Married and Sealed in Endowment House: December 30, 1870, Salt Lake City, Utah [Ref. 23] Estranged: January 1873 [Ref. 31] Sealing Canceled: April 11, 1873 [Ref. 32] Sealed again: June 2, 1873 [Ref. 32] Widowed: December 4, 1879 due to death of William Clayton Married Michael Jensen: May 1, 1881, Manti, Sanpete, Utah [Ref. 33] Died: January 24, 1947, Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah William Clayton’s Wives 6/14/2014 Page 3 of 8 OBSERVATIONS William had 9 wives and was sealed to two other women. Numbering the wives seems inappropriate as they were all of equal value with distinct personalities and individual goals and desires for their lives. There were constant changes in the makeup of the family. Three of his wives died (Diantha, Margaret and Elizabeth), two marriages ended in divorce (Alice Hardman and Maria Lyman) and four were left widowed at his death (Ruth, Augusta, Sarah and Anna Higgs). At the core of his family were four women: Ruth and Margaret Moon, Augusta Braddock and Sarah Walters. They lived with him the longest (43, 27, 29 and 23 years, respectively). Anna Higgs joined the family seven years before William’s death. The marriage to Alice Hardman lasted seven years and Maria Lyman left after five. Elizabeth Mort Ainsworth was 52 when she came to Utah and married William; she died seven years later at the age of 59. Diantha Farr died in Salt Lake City at the age of 22. The 1870 census shows that Ruth and Margaret shared a home and that there were two homes next door for Augusta and Sarah. (Maria Lyman lived with Ruth and Margaret.) Prior to that, the family was spread amongst one or two adjacent houses. Ruth and Margaret lived their whole lives together with no reported discords. Even before her marriage in Nauvoo, Margaret lived with Ruth and William. NOTES 1. Sealing-only relationships for Jane Hardman and Ellen Melling do not need to be recorded in FamilyTree. [“Sealing-Only Relationships” (1028075) posted: 31 May 2013, Using the FamilySearch Family Tree: A Reference Guide (29 May 2013)] “Because the purpose of Family Tree is to record actual family relationships, the relationships recorded in Family Tree should be genealogically accurate. “Sometimes, sealings have been performed for people who had no family relationship during their lifetimes. For example, at one time during Church history, people were sealed to Church leaders rather than their own parents. “You do not need to record these sealing-only relationships in Family Tree. If you delete a sealing-only relationship from Family Tree, the sealing information is preserved in these ways: • The sealing appears in the LDS Ordinances section of the person’s details page. • The record of that sealing is still preserved in the temple records.” 2. Alice Hardman, Sealing-only Relationship. This appears to have been a priesthood ordinance; not the establishment of a husband and wife relationship. Clayton uses the words “was united in the everlasting covenant.” Alice was a single sister who was sick. It is possible that there was some concern that she might die without benefit of the sacred covenants which included sealing. In any case, she recovered from her illness and married Austin Sturgess two months later. She did not attend the temple sealing with William and his other wives in January of 1846. Based on this, it appears that she did not consider herself married to William Clayton at that time. William Clayton’s Wives 6/14/2014 Page 4 of 8 3. Jane Hardman, Sealing-only Relationship. It is believed that this refers to Jane Hardman Whitehead who was married to William Whitehead on February 8, 1844 in Nauvoo. This is the only person with that name known to be living in Nauvoo at that time. Jane and Alice Hardman were first cousins. Clayton taught her the gospel in Manchester. This prior friendship and William’s frequent use of shorthand notation may have been the reasons for calling her Jane Hardman rather than using her married name. As was the case with Alice, this appears to have been a priesthood ordinance; not the establishment of a husband and wife relationship. At the time of blessing, Jane was 5 months pregnant with her first child. Jane died in Oquawka, Illinois (40 miles north of Nauvoo) on July 23, 1847. This was the same month she gave birth to her second child. Jane was sealed by proxy to William Whitehead in the Endowment House on May 29, 1860. Jane Hardman and William Clayton never lived together as husband and wife. Jane did not attend the temple sealing with William and his other wives in January of 1846. Thus, the only record of this sealing was the entry in Clayton’s journal. (See Ref. 19.) 4. Elizabeth Mort was a first cousin of Ruth and Margaret Moon. She was married to William Ainsworth. After his death on January 16, 1867 she immigrated to Utah and was sealed to William Clayton. She was 52 and William was 56; they had no children together. 5. Ellen Melling. Ellen might have been a mutual friend of William and Ruth. According to FamilyTree she died in 1843 in England without the blessings of the temple ordinances. Her proxy sealing to William Clayton occurred the same day that he was sealed to Elizabeth Mort. Ruth was the proxy for Ellen. REFERENCES Birth and death dates are from the FamilySearch details page for the individuals. If available, sources for that information are listed there and are not repeated here. 1. The Register for Marriages at St Mary 1827 – 1837, Bishop's Transcripts, Page 230, Entry 689. LDS Film 1502458. “Marriage: 9 Oct 1836 St Mary, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. William Clayton - of this Parish. Ruth Moon – [signed with] (X), of this Parish. Witness: Wm. Wignall; Margaret Moon, [signed with] (X). Married by Banns by: W. Harrison Curate.” 2. William Clayton Diary for 27 April 1843 through 24 September 1844. Entry for Tuesday, July 22, 1843. “Saturday 22 ... Prest. Joseph came to see me & pronounced a sealing blessing upon Ruth and me. And we mutually entered into an everlasting covenant with each other.” 3. A statement made by Clayton and sworn to before a notary on February 16, 1874 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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