Mary Ann (Workman) Bennett (1829 - abt. 1904)

Born 11 May 1829 in Overton, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John Doyle Lee — married 1846 (to 10 Feb 1847) in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States

Wife of John Saulter Bennett — married 14 Nov 1848 in Dallas, Iowa, United States

Died about 29 Jul 1904 at about age 75 in Polk City, Polk, Iowa, United States

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Mary became a member of the LDS Church between 1830 - 1848.

Mary (Workman) Bennett was a Latter Day Saint pioneer.

Biography

Mary was born in 1829. She was the daughter of John Workman and Lydia Bilyeu. She passed away in 1904.

Married:

1. John Doyle Lee, 10 Feb 1846
2. John Saulter Bennett (1817 - 1891), 14 Nov 1848

Children:

1. Martha L Bennett

LDS Church/Temple Ordinances

-Baptism in 1839 (Reference: Temple Index Bureau)

-Endowment at the Temple: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States on January 31, 1846 (Reference: Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register 1845-46)

Polly Ann Workman and John D. Lee were married either during the month of December 1845, or January, 1846. She was his seventh wife. Her name appeared in his journals on occasion during the exodus from Nauvoo but little was known of her prior life. She and Nancy Bean were the first in the Lee family to cross the Mississippi in February, 1846, to begin the trek across Iowa to Winter Quarters. When the company was at a place known as Pacific Springs about the middle of June, Polly Ann decided she would go back to Pisgah where many of the Saints had stopped for lack of means to go farther. In John D. Lee's family of forty-eight, which included adopted sons and their families, twenty-eight were forced to remain. Those in the family who continued had four wagons, twenty-four head of cattle, four mules, and three horses. Polly Ann was one of that group of family members.

It was when they arrived at Pacific Springs that Polly Ann left the family to go back to Pisgah.

February 10, 1847, John and Polly Ann had a long conversation. There seemed to be serious problems between them, which John viewed as irreconcilable. With this feeling, he had spoken to her brother, who was at Pisgah about sending her to him. John made arrangements with him that he allow her to work in his household, and be paid at the rate of one dollar per week. The next day, despite some additional dialogue between them, John put her on a wagon and sent her back.

Polly Ann remained in Iowa and married Mr. Bennett. She never went to Utah.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Mary Hammond.

• Cemetery marker [1]
• FindAGrave
• Source: S18 Repository: #REPO18 Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
• Repository: REPO18 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
• Source: S19 Repository: #REPO19 Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
• Repository: REPO19 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
• Membership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1848, Volume XLVII, WIN—YOC Compiled by Susan Ward Easton Black, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE5800000
• "Descendants of John Doyle Lee," 1960 by Manetta Prince Henrie

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Workman-320 created through the import of annette christensen gedcom.ged on Jul 10, 2011 by Candee LeBaron.
• Thanks to Mary Hammond for starting this profile.