Diana Louisa (Jolley) Dorrity (1816 - 1896)

Born 26 Mar 1816 in Bedford, Pitt, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Calvin Jones — married about 1832 in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States

Wife of Dennis Dorrity — married 13 Dec 1835 in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Jul 1896 at age 80 in Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States

Biography

Diana Louisa Jolley was born in 1816 and died in 1896. At the age of 36 she traveled with the John B. Walker Company wagon train, departing from Kanesville, Iowa in 1852. She traveled for 98 days arriving in Salt Lake City.^[1]

She was married twice. First, to Calvin Jones, with whom she had at least one daughter. The second time to Dennis Dorrity (born on 7 March 1818 in Franklin Co., Illinois to Dennis and Sarah McClean Dorrity) in 1839, in Tennessee.

Diana and Dennis had seven children: Sarah Frances, Mary Ann Temperance, James Lemuel, Elizabeth Louisa, William Jasper Dennis Bryant, and Permeca Evaline.

Diana reported in her history that they joined in the early spring of 1848, with other members of the 2nd ten of the 2nd fifty of the 2nd 100 group in Amasa Lyman's company, with Willard Richards as captain over the whole company. They were among 52 people who settled in Palmyra in 1852. While living there Dennis became Marshall of the city of Palmyra.

After living there for a few years, they moved with 400 others to Spanish Fork in 1856. Here Dennis was appointed Mayor of the city on 4 May 1857. He was also an Alderman. The 50th quorum of the Seventy was partly organized in Spanish Fork on 19 May 1859 with Dennis as one of the presidents. He became a water master in 1858.

Dennis and his family were among the early settlers of Kanosh, Utah, in about 1868 or 1869. The book of the Birth of Kanosh lists Dennis Dorrity in the County Recorder's office for lot 8, Block 3. In addition to Three Creeks (a ranch in the south mountains), they had a farm on which they lived in the summer months doing farming and ranching. Dennis Dorrity also owned a farm at the south east corner of Kanosh including Block 1 of Kanosh, extending eastward to the Old Field Stream Now known as the Lower Town Ditch. Before the town was incorporated in 1903 The Kanosh cemetery was located on this farm. It is noted that it was call Dorrity field.

Diana outlived Dennis by two years. While the remains of most of the pioneers including Dennis and Diana are still in the old cemetery, their gravestones were all moved to the new cemetery. The old graveyard was apparently plowed and put to agricultural use.

Residence 1860

Census of Spanish Fork, Utah. In household:
Dennis Dorrity Male 40 Illinois
Dianer Louiza Dorrity Female 43 North Carolina
Martha E Dorrity Female 32 Tennessee
James L Dorrity Male 16 Illinois
Elizth S Dorrity Female 14 Iowa
Willm Jasper Dorrity Male 10 Iowa
Harriet J Dorrity Female 10 Utah
Dennis Dorrity Male 8 Iowa
William O Dorrity Male 8 Utah
Thurza Jane Dorrity Female 4 Utah
Dennis S Dorrity Male 0 Utah^[2]

Residence 1870

Census of Kanosh, Millard, Utah Territory. In household:
Dennis Dorrity Male 51 Illinois
Diana L Dorrity Female 53 North Carolina
Dennis B Dorrity Male 18 Iowa
Wm Orson Dorrity Male 17 Utah
Thursa June Dorrity Female 14 Utah
Dennis S Dorrity Male 10 Utah
Francis M Dorrity Male 8 Utah
William A Dorrity Male 1 Utah
Martha Dorrity Female 43 Tennessee^[3]

Residence 1880

Census of Kanosh, Millard, Utah. Diania L Dorrity, 63, born in North Carolina. Living in the household of her son, James L Dorrity and daughter-in-law Margaret, with their family.^[4]

Mormon Pioneer entry

Name: Deanna Louisa Jolley Dorrity
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 27 Oct 1852
Event Place: Deseret, United States
Sex: Female
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1816
Departure Date: 30 Jun 1852
Death Date: 28 Jul 1896^[5]

Research notes

Her first marriage, to Calvin Townsend Jones, is attested to in the death record of their daughter, Lina Meniza.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Biography taken, in slightly modified form, from FamilySearch. Profile of Diana Louisa Jolley (1816–1896). Accessed 2021.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2W-Z2C : 18 February 2021), Dianer Louiza Dorrity in entry for Dennis Dorrity, 1860.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCT-377 : 24 May 2021), Diana L Dorrity in entry for Dennis Dorrity, 1870.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSV-JB4 : 20 February 2021), Diania L Dorrity in household of James L Dorrity, Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States; citing enumeration district ED 33, sheet 500B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,336.
5. ↑ "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9B-CBVT : 10 February 2018), Deanna Louisa Jolley Dorrity, 27 Oct 1852; from "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: 1847-1868," database, > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/ : 2004-).
6. ↑ "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZGM-236 : 3 March 2021), Diana F. Jolly in entry for Lina Memza Manherd, 06 Jan 1910; citing Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States, certificate 3, series 81448; Utah State Archives Research Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; FHL microfilm.

See also:

• Historical, genealogical, and biographical account of the Jolliffe family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893 also sketches of the Neill's, Janney's, Hollingsworth's, and other cognate families. Author: Jolliffe, William. Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott 1893, Page# 43.