Alta (Adams) Hancock (1795 - 1836)

Born 17 May 1795 in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Solomon Hancock — married 12 Mar 1815 in Potawatamie, Iowa, USA

Descendants

Died 31 Jan 1836 at age 40 in Clay, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Alta was born in 1795. Alta Adams ... She passed away in 1836. ^[1]

Notes on Alta's death: In Joseph Smith Papers, Journal, 1835-1836 dated 12 March, 1836. An entry in the Journal states the following concerning the death of Solomon’s wife Alta in Missouri:

Eldr Solomon Hancock received a letter to day, from Missouri bearing the painful inteligence, of the death of his wife. May the Lord bless him and comfort him in this hour of affliction.

The following note was attached to this entry as follows:

Alta Adams Hancock died in January in Clay County, Missouri. (Obituary for Alta Hancock, LDS Messenger and Advocate, Feb. 1836, 2:272.)

The Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate was a monthly publication of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate was published starting in October 1834, replacing an earlier newspaper. It ceased publication in 1837.

An entry from the history of George Washington Hancock, a son of Solomon and Alta Hancock states:

On Jan. 31, 1836 while his father was still upon his mission, the greatest tragedy of all came into his life-- his mother, having been very ill, died on this day and George was left motherless with only his two brothers and a sister to share his grief. The family consisted of Eliza, sixteen; Joseph, fourteen; Charles, thirteen; and George ten.

An entree from the history of Eliza Hancock, a daughter of Solomon and Alta Hancock states:

She, Eliza, gathered with the saints to Clay Co. Mo. and from there bid her father [who left on a mission to the] eastern states (goodbye) and was gone two years. During his absence, on 31 Jan 1836 in Clay Co. Mo. she suffered the years who had known so much sorrow was stripped of her Mother's love her care and her comfort and her wisdom. Death had entered their habitations many times before, but it was never like this. Eliza and her three brothers, Joseph, who was fourteen, Charles, thirteen and George, ten years of age buried her in a lonely grave in an unfriendly country and then sought to comfort each other in their grief until their father's return. After many months he returned to his motherless children and brought with him their mother's niece, Phoebe Adams, whom he married as his wife and mother to them. This she truly was and in her they found comfort and blessings.

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